a body at rest.

so, i'm sitting at the smoking window, thinking about whether or not i could actually handle taking a yoga class (i have quite the distaste for yoga), when i am suddenly reminded of this article i read a while ago about how people are getting distressed over the fact that more and more gyms and health clubs are "catering" to the overweight, by offering classes designed for the chronically sedentary etc. etc. the quotes that were gathered for this article all came from gym rats who found it "unmotivating" and "unpleasant" that as a result of these classes, their hallowed halls are overrun by the aesthetically undesirable. and that they wish it would stop.

well, if that doesn't just make me want to spit in the wheatgrass juice.

how horrendously elitist, how pretentious such a mentality is. isn't the entire point of a gym to give you a forum and some resources with which to take care of/improve your body? no matter what you look like? do the heavy and unattractive not deserve the opportunity to do something about it, or at the very least just move about a little, have fun maybe?

the people interviewed for this article were largely in agreement that they would prefer that their gyms stop offering these classes for the unattractive. return the territory to the musclebound pretty types to which it once belonged.

what?

i can't quite properly articulate how this upsets me.

if you don't like being surrounded by the sedentary and overweight, shouldn't you be in support of programs which allow people to change that aspect about themselves? after all, if you have no venue in which to try, no guidance, how are you ever going to cease to be part of this "problem"? fucking elitist, aestheticist bastards. just because you're genetically blessed or slightly obsessed doesn't give you the right to pass judgement on those of us who don't fit into that category. or deny us the chance to improve. or at the very least have fun.

dah!

grr!

people wonder why it's so difficult for these others whom they so revile find it so difficult to break out of this mold.

blast the culture of intolerance!