Now the New Yorker?

[Thomas]

Learning to Squat - The New Yorker

[Mark Rippetoe]

Amazing. Their fact-checker called me last week.

[greywar]

Not bad for what is ordinarily a very squishy publication when it comes to anything related to anything with a whiff of testosterone to it, of course the author was a female. That likely helped the New Yorker overcome any "toxic masculinity" issues (in addition to being able to mock Mehdi for claiming muscularity attracts women).

[tfranc]

Fantastic!

[Mark Rippetoe]

I am happy that she perceives my chest-beating as being more subdued than his.

[marcf]

Maybe she'll finish reading the squat chapter and stop squatting ass-to-grass.

[stef]

"singlet-clad man squatting beside a protractor, atop a field of graph paper"


A cartoon. It is interesting that someone who a little bit down writes "our muscles also exist in context—under the stress of narratives about disability and gender, subjected to stories about failure and success" assumes the sex of the cartoon being is male.

[greywar]

I am happy that she perceives my chest-beating as being more subdued than his.

That just means she hasn't watched any of the podcast videos.

[Aryah]

Hmmm. Looks like she needs a coach.

[Christopher Button]

The picture, man. The fucking picture. Why you gotta have a close-up of a dude's undies and asscheeks superimposed where his balls should be?