Racists...
Posted on 12/29/2022 9:59:54 AM PST by shadowlands1960
How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons? That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.
Nowadays, at the beginning of every New Year, many Americans hit the gym to work off their holiday feasts. This momentum usually starts to fade in mid-January, according to a 2019 analysis of data on fitness tracking apps by Bloomberg. But such new year’s resolutions are pretty new—as is the concept of exercise as a way to improve bodily health.
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It was super interesting reading the reflections of fitness enthusiasts in the early 20th century. They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are an assault on women’s form, and that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. At first, you feel like this is so progressive.
Then you keep reading, and they’re saying white women should start building up their strength because we need more white babies. They’re writing during an incredible amount of immigration, soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is totally part of a white supremacy project. So that was a real “holy crap” moment as a historian, where deep archival research really reveals the contradictions of this moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
I am a white supremicist!
More evidence these pukes want us fat, unhealthy, and dead.
If she really wanted to go into the attitudes of white females about “race” she could have written about how the suffragettes were especially po’d that the 15th Amendment gave the right to vote to black males ahead of white females.
...and contributes to climate change which impacts communities of color disproportionately.
The Greeks are White Supremacists?
The Greeks were Greek supremacists... if you have ever read any of them you’ll know what I mean...
Oh good God.
This is what happens when you legalize marijuana. Every random whimsical thought becomes an epiphany.
Liberals are never short of inventions...
What is the connection between exercise and “supremacy”
None.
Look up for instance Rafael Halperin...
If you’re not fat and lazy then you’re a racist.
Working their fields would keep us in shape.
I read only the headline.
Bunk.
/massive eyeroll
C’mon, you’re being ‘ahistorical.’ Exercise was so white women could have healthy white babies... didn’t you read this great historian’s take on it all?
Yep!
Gosh I missed that
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