I know it's just a fascist bullshit, but how do these guys not know that toned muscles are due to diet and planned exercise routines, not something inherent to health or whatever. I'm guessing almost no one looked like that for the entirety of pre-modern human history.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1557400252931522560

  • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    My belief is that 90% of people who are "instafit" are people who grew up in bourgeois households, because I don't believe that anybody who didn't has the time, money, or access to pharmacology necessary to get those kinds of gains.

    Beauty standards within class societies are fundamentally ways to reify social & economic power, imo.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I guess most people in the field are firmly from middle class backgrounds, but I find it's really common in like software engineering and adjacent STEM fields. And it was something they got into during undergrad. But yeah, like most beauty standards it's just barely disguised classism for the most part.

      • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I try to do my best as someone who works line production, but I often find myself in situations where I outright cannot maintain a workout schedule for at least 3-4 months out of the year due to accruing physical injuries.