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TODAY: @littlewow.online on the Pilates tsunami. “Over the past few years there has been a noticeable and depressing homogenization of workout culture with an increased emphasis on thinness over strength.” flaminghydra.com/r/511eea61?m...

flaminghydra.comClass tensions / Bound volumesJennie Rose Halperin on boutique fitness, and Ilana Masad defends fine genre fiction

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Scott Burton

@scottburton.me

12 May

"Thinness over strength" ok so you've never done Pilates, got it

jennie rose halperin

@littlewow.online

13 May

I actually have done Pilates quite a bit 🤷‍♀️

Tommy “Boris” O’Blivion

@tommyoblivion.bsky.social

13 May

the people at my studio are jacked! but also thin

jennie rose halperin

@littlewow.online

13 May

That’s kind of the point of the article! there’s nothing special about Pilates muscles even if Instagram says there is, and celebrities are not thin because Pilates, they are thin because it is in vogue and extremely easy to access weight loss drugs now

Flaming Hydra

@flaminghydra.com

11 May

ALSO TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social in defense of romantasy, “routinely scorned by the realism or ‘literary fiction’ set, and generally by those who are inclined to sneer at books that girls and women enjoy.” flaminghydra.com/read-as-thou...

flaminghydra.comRead As Thou Wilta fiery writer-owned cooperative

Ben Williams

@bpwilliams72.bsky.social

11 May

Some of my favourite fantasy books there.

estarianne

@estarianne.bsky.social

11 May

I enjoyed that series!