"fitness" is secret ladymagcode for "neurotic thinness"
Posted Feb 09 2011 7:21am
Is there a Pulitzer prize for getting it ALL right in one page, sparkling with wit and appropriately seething profanity?
They promise to tone, transform, fix, and whittle your body, but all women's fitness magazines really do is help you lose all that flabby self-esteem you've spent years accumulating. How are they bullshit? Let us count the ways.
Why do we march our groceries AND OUR CHILDREN by this profane self-loathing?
Read, chuckle, cheer, and ask yourself why this stuff gets produced and bought and what you're not doing about it.
** For some reason some people can't click through on that link and it goes kerfluey on them. Try cutting and pasting this: http://jezebel.com/#!5753287/womens-fitness-magazines-are-bullshit
Why are we accepting "Women's Health" magazines like a dog pill slathered in peanut butter?**
Why do we march our groceries AND OUR CHILDREN by this profane self-loathing?
Read, chuckle, cheer, and ask yourself why this stuff gets produced and bought and what you're not doing about it.
** For some reason some people can't click through on that link and it goes kerfluey on them. Try cutting and pasting this: http://jezebel.com/#!5753287/womens-fitness-magazines-are-bullshit