With it being the new year, it seems like everyone is getting on the fitness train. Getting healthy is great, and setting positive fitness goals can help you adopt positive lifestyle habits. If you are on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram, though, you have seen fitness inspiration images to motivate you to “get fit” – we call them “fitspiration.” They are almost always images of parts of women without heads or faces. They are always very thin, surgically and/or digitally enhanced, tanned, oiled up parts of bodies with text like this: Look good, feel good. Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going. Girls who are naturally skinny are lucky. Girls who have to fight to be skinny are strong. While a slogan and image motivating you to get out and move and live and do is a beautiful thing, so many of these “fitspiration” messages floating across the web must be exposed for what they are: shame-inducing, objectifying, limiting ideals that keep women in their places as objects to be looked at above all else.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:00:01 +0000
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