What I find intriguing about this interview is the fact that there are not an abundance of female bodybuilders out there and for her to take a stand and become a bodybuilder is brave. During the interview, she stated that she lost her breasts due to the fact that breasts on females are body fat that can be eventually ridden of if it was turned into pure muscle and that is what Roxanne Edwards did. She also stated that she personally doesn't use creatine and that sometimes the effects of it are not as good as advertised however, that it can be used for recovery and that humans naturally have creatine in their body. This is alarming coming from a bodybuilder seeing as I myself use creatine. As a matter of fact, I just started using it literally the same day before I listened to the interview.
Another thing that stuck out to me was the fact that Roxanne Edwards had everything opposite to what discussed in class as to what represents a perfect female and what represents a perfect male. If I were to base it off of what we discussed in class as to what represents a perfect female then there is only one realization that comes to the mind. What does society see her as? A man?, because she has nearly every physicality of a male. Muscular and toned being the strongest factor or rather pillar which is what she has exactly. Society starts to see a female such as this as a female with male attributes therefore making her a male in the eyes of some. In this interview, Roxanne Edwards speaks about her life as a bodybuilder.
Roxanne has achieved what she has wanted, which is a body of "pure muscle" and no fat at all considering the fact that she doesn't possess breast. In all honesty, I don't consider what Roxanne Edwards possess as in her body as whole as a healthy body because there are a lot of veins all over the place to the extent that it looks in a sense, "crazy". If anything, it looks anything but healthy. There is the extreme extent and the limited or rather decent body. As said in the discussion we had in class, a female's body and male's body cannot have extreme muscular figures especially in females because society has them pegged to be "feminine" or rather all hips, curves, large buttocks, big breasts, flat stomach.
I totally support what Roxanne is trying to achieve and support her bravery because I haven't seen that many female bodybuilders in my life or at least, to that extent. "I know some very unique looking women, all across the spectrum, and when I say unique looking women I mean unique women period. Drag queens, transvestites, body builders, you name it, the whole gamut and they are quite elegant and just amazingly feminine without having to have not one breast amongst them." I resonate with this quote greatly not because I'm going through the same experience but because being unique is not a bad thing. People are not used to seeing something different so therefore, they judge and I in a sense feel as though I am different and unique as I'm sure there are others out there who are unique in their own way. My message to transvestites, bodybuilders, and drag queens is "keep being unique!"
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