This piece is so real. I've been doing Pilates since 2017/2018 and yes, matching sets and slickbacks are a thing but it's also an incredible workout to tone your body.
The "pilates girl" has of course been taken away from us and morphed into some buzz word that men use to weed out their woman of choice - we can't have shit LOL.
Exactly! The workout is amazing and so many people miss that in the discourse. Like, can women just exist without having to conform to made a up aesthetic?
I loved this and feel so similarly about pilates. There's a studio across the street from me and I felt like I was always just seeing the archetypal woman going in and out...and then I went to a class and realized there's so many types of people who go! For some reason my brain was filtering out all the others and playing into that stereotype. So strange how that happens.
Also I had noo idea on the connection with the manosphere and now will be haunted by that
This piece is so real. I've been doing Pilates since 2017/2018 and yes, matching sets and slickbacks are a thing but it's also an incredible workout to tone your body.
The "pilates girl" has of course been taken away from us and morphed into some buzz word that men use to weed out their woman of choice - we can't have shit LOL.
Exactly! The workout is amazing and so many people miss that in the discourse. Like, can women just exist without having to conform to made a up aesthetic?
SAY IT LOUDER.
I loved this and feel so similarly about pilates. There's a studio across the street from me and I felt like I was always just seeing the archetypal woman going in and out...and then I went to a class and realized there's so many types of people who go! For some reason my brain was filtering out all the others and playing into that stereotype. So strange how that happens.
Also I had noo idea on the connection with the manosphere and now will be haunted by that
Yes, so glad you went in eventually and discovered the same truth! The manosphere connection is quite disturbing, smh, they ruin everything.
It's insane, it makes me want to log off the internet forever!