The upside of faux-empowering advertising (yes, there is one)
A few days ago I caught a television ad for Lean Cuisine that struck me as rather odd. I don’t think I’m alone in thinking of Lean Cuisine as having […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Race report: Going for sub-4:00 at the Clearwater Marathon
Over the course of the four months of training leading up to the Clearwater Marathon, I practiced a lot of visualization exercises as part of my attempt to perform amateur […]
Marathon training: It’s almost here!
I’m at that point in my taper where I can count the number of days until my marathon on one hand, and I wanted to write one last pre-marathon post […]
If you could have good health from a pill, would you still exercise?
Lately I’ve gone out of my way to avoid articles and posts I feel are deliberately trolling the internet, mainly because my button that allows me to give a fuck […]
Women’s difficulty with pull-ups is about more than biology
Being a regular consumer of mainstream news means I am well-acquainted with the sensation of feeling angry or frustrated by the talking heads on my television/computer/smartphone, but few things have […]
Moving away from the cult of the body in 2014
In recent years, I’ve made a habit of spending the last several days of the year engaged in a sort of psychological reset, which is basically a fancy way of […]
Fit and Feminist 