"fitness" is secret ladymagcode for "neurotic thinness"
Is there a Pulitzer prize for getting it ALL right in one page, sparkling with wit and appropriately seething profanity?
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
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 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
You linked to a Jezebel piece about the fiscal argument for anti-choice legislation -- I think it was a mistake? I'd like to see the article you quoted, it sounds interesting!
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ReplyDeleteIt's working for me still. Anybody else?
Is my connection just so in love with that piece it refuses to go anywhere else?
I think it's because your link comes out as http://jezebel.com/#%21womensfitnessmagazines which, for me, went to 'College Candidates Slammed For Campaign "Glamour Shots"'
ReplyDeleteThis link lead to the real article http://jezebel.com/#!womensfitnessmagazines, so it was just a slight difference.
I think that as Jezebel updates, new articles appear on the page - the first time I clicked, the fitness mag article was front & center, the second time it was supplanted and I found it on the sidebar.
ReplyDeleteI too am so very tired of every magazine in the checkout lane screaming the latest way to lose weight fast and the pop ups/ads on computers. Wish there was a way to stop the madness.
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