Nicely put.There is nothing feminine in the creation of hierarchies based on physical displays of strength and power and being admired from all for your relative superiority based on that. Half the point of the exercise is to gain the respect and submission from lesser males. We just take "respect" and "submission" to another, rather pleasurable level, if they would just loosen up a bit!
He needs a trip to Greece to see the first gym ever built and what the walls of the gymnasium attests to. Gym culture and the Greek body ideal which bodybuilding exalts have homosexual roots. He follows and aspires to a homosexual ideal of male beauty.