Curl Hate, Isolation Hate

Right now there is an Curl and Isolation hate, widely spread across the internet. Barbell curls are silly, calves raises dont work wont make your calves bigger, etc. This hate seems to come from SL5x5 and SS fanatics. Now the funny thins is that people that say that calves raises dont work are also the ones that say that squat will make your calves bigger, and bent over rows will make your biceps bigger.
it could not be further from the truth. Squat will not make your calve any bigger, as it doesn't involve them in the movement. Bent-over rows will make your arms grow abit, but they do not hit specifically your biceps, and thus they will not make your biceps grow like arnold biceps.
For me, a video of Zyzz curling a girl was the beginning of me wanting to curl alot of weigth. because i tried to curl my girlfriend, i could see i lacked a lot of strength in the biceps, even though i did rows and chins-ups.
Now i can curl my girlfriend pretty easily, i can even strict press her above my head :) but i did not stop there. barbell curl is a pretty hard exercises, it will break your forearms in two. to those that say that isolations exercises don't work, i have to lol at them. If you start curling, try to increase the weight steadily, and you will notice big results. your biceps will grow bigger and thicker and more powerful.
in my opinion, even an strength athlete should do biceps curls with a barbell.
And calves raises work just fine, but you have not to cheat yourself. focus on your calves, and lift the weight ! it will burn like hell ! i gained inches in my calves in a weeks when i started to train them, but the key here is to push the weigth and the reps. you wont grow big calves without some heavy weight.