Wrote a letter to Randy Roach that ended up this article, lol – Yes I have a lot to say – Rasa Von Werder  To Randy,                            
        Yes I see.  Arnold tried to stand up to Weider way in the beginning – he said so in his first book ‘Education of a Body Builder’ – but Weider then pulled his ads, so Arnold lost that game. I guess Arnold learned to play ball – “Make love not war” when it came to Weider, just one of the many people in power he cooperated with to get ahead.

    I believe I have beaten Arnold at the game between him & me – it was a matter of time. It all played out, this is the end. And the end is I am justified & given the recognition I deserve no matter what he tried to do.

    “No lie lives forever”

    said Martin Luther King Jr. & this is proven but things need time to play out. There is a lot to this, it’s more than personal. These are smaller battles within the Gender War – this war is coming to an end on the planetary level & on the  personal level. There are two ideas that are pertinent to my work in body building – both on Wikipedia. One is ‘the Overton Window’ which is a measurement of ideas, cultural & so on, which are first unthinkable, then possible, then become accepted. That was my thrust or emergence on the scene – that is what I did for women.

    On the opposite side of this is the “Matilda” effect. It means that whatever women do {in this case it’s the scientific community,} their efforts, advances & discoveries are not attributed to them but to the men of power or status above them. This way women are forgotten, swept under the rug, not given credit personally or as a whole for their achievement.

    Why would this be? Because if individual women are given recognition it puts a good light on women in general, that is, all women benefit, all women are honored, their gender gets a boost. And this does not suit the opposite gender, who want to be the dominate one.

    And so women have been ROBBED, for a very long time, of the recognition due them, in fact, we’re talking thousands of years.

    But the big picture is we are on the cusp of the emergence of Matriarchy which will unseat Patriarchy, that is the Gender War, that is the big game we are playing.

    I did not see this in the beginning, I was influenced & inspired by a Power & Energy within which I did not understand or recognize. But it was the Ultimate, the Source of Life, that was pushing me ahead. It was time for women to break the shackles, the iron doors, & to emerge out of the dungeons & slavery men had confined them to.

    And that is what I faced after the fact – after I did my bit to get the modern competitive female body building started. I was challenged by two powerful men within the body building community who wanted to do whatever they could to stop me from getting recognition. Indeed, Arnold had personal reasons. Just like I had personal, emotional reasons for what I did. On the microcosm level it was both emotional for us. {I explain this in my life story – the early demoralization etc} But on the mega-cosmos level, these guys were on the Manside/Patriarchy dominating women & trying to keep this going, while the Woman-side was represented by me, a woman of God, sent by Her, to help establish Matriarchy again {when the world had peace, no wars.}

          I see the end of it now – it took time – in fact, FIFTY YEARS for me to be justified. But if I had NOT FOUGHT the battle, continued to fight against Weider/Arnold, they would have succeeded. Their cronies, sock puppets, Copellia dolls would have been recognized because they played the game their way, not women’s way. But I fought like an animal, a Honey Badger so to speak, {who’s little but stands up to Grizzlies & lions & wins!} to get proper recognition. And after fifty years, because of my patience, persistence & fortitude, faith & hope in God, at last, at last, if you Google me I will come up as the Progenitor – which even a short time ago was missing. It looked like Arnold/ Weider had buried me, but I rose up like the Phoenix when all seemed lost. Yes Arnold wanted to demoralize me, hurt me because he felt hurt by me. Weider wanted to help because he loved Arnold. The goons who were employed by both of them were stenographers to power, the yes men of the world who do as they are told, & they kept the anti-Kellie machine going. But THERE IS A GOD.

          I could mention some of the lost souls – really lost – who these guys destroyed. Mike Mentzer comes to mind. His entire world, & that of his brother were held in the hands of the IFBB. Without this monopoly there was nothing else. When he tried to stand up to them he lost – why? If you read his Wikipedia you find out that Mentzer was confused about God. He was partially right, in that God is Infinity. But his religion had no dimension of devotion, faith, hope, charity or any of the virtues we usually strive for – Mike seemed to think he was a power unto himself – He lived in his ego & flesh, so when that was buffered, he had no place to go – no ‘rock of Christ’ to hide inside.

          When the fragile ego is crushed & we have no alternative power we’re finished, & so Mike was. No longer in the magazines he became invisible. Efforts to rise up in other spheres didn’t work, & alcohol & drugs did the rest.

          It isn’t totally fair to compare myself with Mike because body building was all he had – for me only 20% of my career. And so Arnold/Weider depriving me from notice was not gigantic – but it was still a world I had a right to.

          I have now said a mouthful, especially regards the Gender War – the battle of men & women, the clash of Feminine, Masculine, who wins? And how did this enter into body building as I claim it has/did from the beginning.

          It is because of this perspective, that I’m not sure any one inside body building can represent me & write my story. Because, after all the men who are involved in body building admire the men! And they have their own identity meshed in with these heroes! They see with a lens that does not see women need freedom, women need love, women need to do what they want to do! Understandably they are looking from the side of men, & men want to be champs or Big Shots & although not all are tyrants & miscreants they would rather women be nice to them than defiant & independent. They generally will not struggle for the freedom/autonomy of women!

          And so, there might have to be an outsider who doesn’t give a hen’s tooth about body building to write an account of what I stood for & what I accomplished – this is a perspective not from the world of body building but the Gender War! What was accomplished when one woman appeared – a joke to some – flexing every mucle she could in Esquire – lifting weight & doing the same for Playboy later & underscoring this in many other venues? What did this mean?

          It was a threat to men & an invitation to women,

          “To the barbells, girls!”

          Playboy said.

          Women were scared, men were scared. Women had been scared of being ousted from society for breaking their rules. Men were scared women would beat them up, emotionally if not physically, when they got strong – Not scared of men any more. It all sounds so funny now, because it came about & women are in many ways beating men up. Look at the “Me too” movement, look at the education ‘crisis’ where men are falling behind, women forging ahead. Look at the Olympics, look at women wrestling on TV – women now in politics, running for president. Yes, women are beating men up & body building is one phase.

          What does professional drug-induced body building for women now prove?

          “Hey you guys – I can be just as freaky as you given testosterone. I can smell like you, get into rages,  get God-awful muscular, not your pussy footed beauty who strives to please. Any average man I can crush if he tries to assault or rape me.”

That has never happened before – men have been physically lording it over women thousands of years. But try raping Iris Kyle will you? Not a chance – Hand to hand she can break every bone in your body, lol. That gives men some pause.

The Gender War moves on.   {End}