Christian Lacroix Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1998
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Shout out to everyone who has trauma associated with the holidays. The ones for who this time is rough. The ones who have to go home to family that isn’t safe, or don’t have a family to go home to. You are all strong, and we’ll get through this.
diet culture has ruined our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, it passes the discomfort with our own bodies as natural, it makes our hatred common, we punish ourselves by eating or not eating, by guilt and resolutions, but no one seems to care, not even those who love us.
love women who dont subscribe to modesty like at all… when someone tells them they’re good at something and they like “yeah i am” “i know” that’s so hot
really tho a lot of fitness culture is an intersection of the worst of late capitalist “masculinity”: pseudo-intellectualism, paranoia, objectification of the body, deference to authority rather than intuition or internal cues, intolerance of illness or weakness (universal human experiences), xtreme self-monitoring, delusions of grandeur, and on and on. it creates a front for pushing and falsely advertising useless products based on those elements, as well as (u know i can’t not say it!) operating as a means of social control
Twenty-First Century Victorians
Current exercise trends, like hot yoga, spin, and CrossFit, all demonstrate a commitment to self-denial and self-discipline, values much praised by the Victorians. Marathon running has become the ultimate signifier: competitors can post photos on social media to prove to everyone that they have tortured their bodies in a highly virtuous — and not at all kinky — fashion.
This seeps over into everyday activities as well. Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods are filled with people dressed in workout gear with no sweat in sight. This clothing marks its wearers as the type of people who care for their bodies, even when they aren’t exercising. Yoga pants and running shoes display virtue just as clearly as the nineteenth-century wives’ corseted dresses did.
Being fit now indexes class, saturating both fitness and food culture. As calories have become cheaper, obesity has changed from being a sign of wealth to a sign of moral failure. Today, being unhealthy functions as a hallmark of the poor’s cupidity the same way working-class sexual mores were viewed in the nineteenth century.
Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for higher wages or subsidized health care. After all, the poor will just waste it on cigarettes and cheeseburgers.
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