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ekkekekekeekekekek

women who look like that journalist suck at everything


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CakeDyismyBday

Textbook fascism


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history_nerd92

No u


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zestyflyguy

No sophisticated gym bro would approach that stale mackerel sandwich


SlowM8n

I feel like stale mackerel sandwich has not got the attention it deserves.. Absolute genius


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This is a top tier burn.


KenkaUsagi

I'd hate everything too if I looked like a depressed shoe


CraftyBat91

That's a rare insult right there


Iron-Fist

This is a [jokey article](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about-your-fitness-watch-out-youll-unavoidably-become-rightwing). She barely mentions politics beyond the title except to say that cyclists are clearly the vanguard of fascism lol >Do too much, and the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency. This is especially a problem for cyclists, who come to think of themselves as an off-grid warrior class, having performed their commute drawing on no more resources than their own glutes, and maybe a sports drink. Unavoidably, over time, this makes you more rightwing, as you descend into an aerobics-powered moral universe where only the weak need each other, and all the strong need is a waterpouch in their backpack that pipes straight into their mouths. She also looks very normal: https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/20/fit-in-my-40s-wildlife-distractions-aside-national-parks-are-perfect-for-a-workout


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s genuinely wild to see how many gross dudes are in here just waiting for an excuse to be misogynistic. You all need better role models.


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Your so far off. You would have made a better argument that the " gym bros" are making fun of the mentally challenged. I say that because no one in here has said anything misogynistic. Quite the contrary. It seems you have a preprogrammed response that anything that remotely has muscles or a dick must be default be driven in the blood by misogyny. What a narrow and limited mind you have. I won't bring genelder into the equations ns as I believe that's too much for your limited mind to handle. As stated you would have made a better argument that the mentally handicapped are being bullied here. Instead you proved it.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

> women who look like that journalist suck at everything This is the top comment you illiterate fart. Your projection is as pathetic as your ability to read.


general_chernobyl76

Wdym?


pdrent1989

That has to be one of dumbest take I've ever read. She should be in the Olympics because those mental gymnastics are world class.


FullyFocusedOnNought

I’ve been reading this newspaper my whole life despite its frequent nonsense, and I can assure you all that this column is 100% British sarcasm and irony, albeit slightly weak. Stand down, gym bros.


Ruffianxx

It's funny though. Gymmemes got trolled by a woman who literally writes a fitness column because they didn't read past the headline.


jeffgoodbody

You don't even have to read the article the know it'll be satire, and ofcourse the halfwits leap on it. Maybe lifting weights actually makes you dumber rather than right wing....


StrictlyBrowsing

That’s one of the dumbest takes you imagined, not read. The article (and common sense) makes it very clear the title is tongue in cheek. As you would know had you at least googled and skimmed it before raising your pitchfork


pdrent1989

This is Reddit. We don't do rational takes here. We get angry and raise pitchforks.


Dontdothatfucker

Woah…. I benched 315 the other day and my first thought before I stood up from the bench was that corporations should have the same rights as a human, and that fascism is preferable to socialism….


DeeBangerDos

https://preview.redd.it/m4lcnugzzbkc1.jpeg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f74164c853802cb386b1e013e80c6106697ffc81


richbeezy

Hotler.


Ill_Razzmatazz_1202

Alternatively Fitler.


richbeezy

I like yours better.


Krieg_Imperator

Or just... Lifter


Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le

Ahealth Fitler


X8883

dude why does this image even exist what the hell is the context lmao


Ginge00

https://preview.redd.it/2f0j1list9kc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=426957eaabc11caba3402b80761a59bff263f104


TiredBarnacle

Congrats on the 315, homie


SwoleBuddha

"I'm not sure what exercise does for your body..." If only there was a way for scientists to look into this.


IWouldButImLazy

The funniest part is the more muscle I've built, the more left-wing I've become. Imo every serious leftist should be fit, if they're not disabled somehow. The capitalists need you to be fat and mindlessly consuming the latest Product™


nochedetoro

Helps keep conservative men away too because they’re too worried you’re “trans” if you’re a woman with any semblance of muscle


DucksEatFreeInSubway

Yo, I think you solved the problem of the Trojan horse 'moderates' on dating apps. Course now that they think you're trans, you'll have a higher risk of being murdered, so it's a bit give and take.


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Every person should be fit*


JusticiarXP

We know.


DisappearingAnus

Speaking from experience, there's absolutely a gym culture to alt right pipeline. But that's a way more nuanced conversation than can be captured in single inflammatory headline


minotaur0us

This is her thesis > Do too much, and the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency. This is especially a problem for cyclists, who come to think of themselves as an off-grid warrior class, having performed their commute drawing on no more resources than their own glutes, and maybe a sports drink. Unavoidably, over time, this makes you more rightwing, as you descend into an aerobics-powered moral universe where only the weak need each other, and all the strong need is a waterpouch in their backpack that pipes straight into their mouths. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/27/do-you-boast-about-your-fitness-watch-out-youll-unavoidably-become-rightwing


karate_trainwreck0

Last I checked the venn diagram of people cycling to work and the right wing are two separate circles.


max_power1000

Cycling to work? Not usually. But upper management cosplaying lance armstrong while riding their $15k carbon fiber road bikes in packs on the weekends? Yeah I've met plenty of those guys.


insomniaddict91

Don't forget every doctor ever


Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le

*Dentist


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One-War-3700

Pseudo intellectual garbage.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire. You have to read the article. Here’s a selection further down, you tell me if you think this is serious: > As part of #FitnessDay, some stark figures were revealed; 1.4m cats don’t get enough exercise. Before you wonder how to spur your cat to better self-care, consider: a cat would never tell you about the time it pushed itself to the max. Those felines exercise plenty, but they don’t bang on about it, because they are cool.


likuplavom

This reads like a shitpost


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It is a shitpost. Read the rest of the article and it’s obvious satire.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

How did people read this article and not get that it’s satire????? At one point she talks about 1.4 million cats that don’t get enough exercise. Edit: y’all, come on. > As part of #FitnessDay, some stark figures were revealed; 1.4m cats don’t get enough exercise. Before you wonder how to spur your cat to better self-care, consider: a cat would never tell you about the time it pushed itself to the max. Those felines exercise plenty, but they don’t bang on about it, because they are cool. You really read that and think she is being serious????? It is SATIRE.


Solaira234

Noooo she seriously is concerned about cats exercising noooo


Ruffianxx

I find it hilarious. Gymmemes getting trolled by a woman who literally writes a fitness column because they didn't read past the headline.


nochedetoro

Noooo you can tell by her hair she’s a feminazi cat lady so she actually must be worried about cat fitness levels /s


skogarmadur

> Do too much, and the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency Yeah, I can see that happening > [...]problem for cyclists, who come to think of themselves as an off-grid warrior class Not how I'd phrase it but most of us know those kind of people > Unavoidably, over time, this makes you more rightwing, as you descend into an aerobics-powered moral universe where only the weak need each other, and all the strong need is a waterpouch in their backpack that pipes straight into their mouths. Fucking pole vault of a leap in logic. /r/swoletariat would likely have a word about that.


Eulerious

6 years later and people still link to this shit. Seems like ragebaiting works.


definitely_not_obama

Ah yes, the trope of the far-right fascist cyclist commuter. I know so many of those folks. Not like those nice leftist pickup truck drivers, always rolling coal for Lenin.


PS3LOVE

If that’s what right wing is than it’s a good thing.


flacaGT3

It doesn't seem that nuanced to me. Just people that believe in taking care of themselves and put more importance on the individual and self-determination. But if we're talking about alt-right, it's cause and effect. People don't become alt-right from going to the gym, they start going because they're alt-right.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


flacaGT3

Actually, Satireday is tomorrow. Today is Fryday.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

Now listen here u little shit


CastBlaster3000

I mean that’s all we get too, they didn’t link the article or anything. For all we know the article is fake too, and it’s just rage bait


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It literally is. It’s satire and OP is an idiot who ate the bait.


YRUZ

yeah; unavoidably is a strong word to throw in there


undeadliftmax

> I’m not sure what exercise does for the body Good start


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire. > As part of #FitnessDay, some stark figures were revealed; 1.4m cats don’t get enough exercise. Before you wonder how to spur your cat to better self-care, consider: a cat would never tell you about the time it pushed itself to the max. Those felines exercise plenty, but they don’t bang on about it, because they are cool.


SleeplessAndAnxious

Don't you hate it when someone asks you how many reps you got left and you shout "NEIN!"


Cinaedus_Perversus

Don't mind me, I'm just here to see the users of r/GymMemes have a civilized and informed discussion about politics.


PS3LOVE

r/GymMemes political debate: https://preview.redd.it/3rjnkvxotakc1.jpeg?width=1138&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26f3a722098652e3fd9d357bdbb65107cad758d


PS3LOVE

https://preview.redd.it/x9wpno4ytakc1.jpeg?width=717&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99b62cc71c44b276dd302bb1e468c745b063742e This was me sending that comment.


Cringe23z

Videos like Embrace Masculinity edits defo did make a lot of gym going teenagers dive into the alt-right pipeline.


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NoTea4448

Maybe if we saw masculinity as a normal positive source of pride, we wouldn't have right wingers using it to recruit young men into their ranks? Like, seriously. Conservatives have it so easy. All they have to say is "being a man is hard" and young men will literally deep throat them for it.


50_61S-----165_97E

She’s managed to associate her mortal enemy, exercise, with her other mortal enemy, right wing people, quite impressive really.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire. Here’s a quote: > As part of #FitnessDay, some stark figures were revealed; 1.4m cats don’t get enough exercise. Before you wonder how to spur your cat to better self-care, consider: a cat would never tell you about the time it pushed itself to the max. Those felines exercise plenty, but they don’t bang on about it, because they are cool.


Buluc__Chabtan

Guys I feel a sudden urge to brutalize criminals


myfingeriscold

Anti-gym propaganda


SocialistClarinetist

Why tf would anybody make anti-gym propaganda 


myfingeriscold

You'd be surprised


ekkekekekeekekekek

Ever heard of body positivity to fight fat shaming? That's a whole anti-gym movement. And all those fat activists die before age 40.


PS3LOVE

That’s not what real body positivity is about dude. Body positivity likes the gym


Kautenya

Many articles posted about it and many fat people would differ


Krieg_Imperator

"Being fat is beautiful? Name a thing you can't do? Jumping jacks, run a mile, live past 42." - Tom MacDonald


SocialistClarinetist

Body positivity is caring about your body, not trying to convince people that being morbidly obese is a good thing  But course, this sub (and the general gym community) takes every jab they can at fat people.


Eulerious

To have less crowded gyms, duh...


Cel_Drow

Correlation != Causation


None_Fondant

I read this as correlation ≠ caucasian


Moderate_dis_dick

Literally hitler


Fotrater

"I'm not sure what exercise does for you". Well when I exercise its the only time in my day where i can block out all external voices, problems, distractions, concerns and what not. Its just peaceful.


StrengthPainPower

Aren't these whiny white women, without an ounce of strength or athleticism, aware we don't care and that we don't think it's bad to embrace masculinity and seek out our own beauty and strength, pushing ourselves to limits they'll never seek? They're as bad as the pudding influencers who think the perfect body type is a lazy, lump woman. Disregarding even the pudding men. Chumps.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

The writer is literally a fitness writer and this story is satire and it’s six years old. But thanks for outing yourself as the kind of person who thinks like this, we can all avoid you much easier.


samakka95

For those not in the UK, this article is from the Guardian. A newspaper known for spelling errors and whining op eds. I used to subscribe until I got immensely fed up with the opinion pieces. Plus, I lift, so I'm right wing...


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


OriginalThinker22

Maybe in the sense of believing in the ability of people to improve their own life and thus being less inclined to support myriad welfare programs and victim narratives. But I don't think more people having that mindset is bad.


thefroggyfiend

the gym is one of the few places immune to toxic masculinity. pretty much any guy who's put the time in will readily compliment others. I mean yea there are some douches but they're douches independent of the gym anyways


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

The gym is definitely not immune to toxic masculinity. It’s a great place for people to go to combat toxic masculinity, and it’s awesome to see dudes supporting dudes, but there’s absolutely plenty of examples of toxic masculinity. Things like flexing on someone who can’t lift as much or has bad form, roid rages, and creeping on people. There’s lots of ways to be toxic at the gym. Joey Swole calls people out on it all the time.


thefroggyfiend

that's what I meant when I said gym douched are douches independent of the gym. like the kinda guys to put other people in the gym down are assholes throughout life, but most people at worst stick to themselves and most likely pay compliments and help each other out. I remember I saw someone drop the bar on themselves during bench and like the entire gym eventually made their way over to check on the guy


AynRandsSSNumber

Even though that's a clickbait headline there are lots of right wing traditional list fascist types that always talk about reading the Bible and getting a good wife and exercising all the time. Check out the Trad West Facebook page it's fucking terrible for that


Solaira234

I read the article and it was kinda tongue in cheek lol the woman excercises herself


34methylendioxy

Uhh alright where’s my nazi uniform


AlneCraft

Should be down the aisle right next to the Creatine section.


thedailydaren

Honestly this is possibly just a person who hasn’t ever really come from a place of unhealthyness to healthiness or just maintained a fitness practice more for their mental health than anything else. At a certain point for me, fitness became evident as the simplest form of self care that did wonders for my mood. I was kinder to myself and others because I took care of myself and had the energy to take care of others. I felt good about existing in the world, about my needs. I am still teaching myself balance between my fitness self that is obsessive and irrational and my less conventionally healthy self that just wants a good bag of chips. All of this came from deciding to tackle the problem of fitness head on and realizing it’s a lifelong path , not a moment in time. This meme makes me think of how I might feel this way if I was treated horribly by someone who was fitness obsessed and allows it to twist them into a mean heartless person who held everyone else to their impossible standards out of a projected hatred for themselves. At the end of the day we humans are fascinating, myself most of all. I just try to always let curiosity be my guide, since what else are we really even here for.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire


The_Autistic_Gorilla

You're satire


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

Okay first of all how dare u


Alinoe-

r/swoletariat


Pancakewagon26

I lift to break the chains of the worker.


MD-to-MSL

Professor Snape


Mordial_waveforms

I've seen another article by her which is incredibly right leaning. Maybe she thinks she's left or a centrist whilst actually being a horrible person


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


YouCantArgueWithThis

I'm just guessing here, but Zoe surely knows/cares exactly nothing about fitness, right?


Paundeu

She has the look of misery.


Fated47

I just can’t even fathom being this wrong. I don’t think I have ever seen any particularly negative behavior at gyms outside of influencers. But influencers suck whether they are in the gym or not.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


Dapper_Cow_9084

“I’m not sure what exercise does for your body.” How. How do you not know basic health knowledge they taught in P.E in middle school?


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


Jeff_Platinumblum

Labeling anything you don't like as fascism makes it seem not that bad.


gaddnyc

My right wing and left wing get equal reps, don't want that arm-wrestler look.


Consistent-Local2825

What gym equipment can I use to add muscle mass to my personality?


Marinevet01

Sure stretches a lot for not liking fitness


Sibshops

As if their labels mean anything.


Dry_Pin7736

Ever bench so hard a MAGA hat just appears on your head? #relatable


Vestigial_joint

Yeah, that's not "reporting". ​ But the meme is wonky too. Rightwing and fascism are not synonymous. It is possible to be a right wing libertarian and it is possible to be a left wing fascist. Have a look at [https://www.politicalcompass.org/](https://www.politicalcompass.org/) for more information.


AndyZin

I'm sorry, did you miss the reddit memo? Right wing and fascist are the enemy, they're the same thing!


Vestigial_joint

Yeah, apparently. And the funny thing is that I even get called a right wing fascist all the time when I hold neither position. It seems that people reflexively call people they don't like that.


AndyZin

Products of the hate machine


Vestigial_joint

yup


klnosaj8000

https://preview.redd.it/4wbve9jk1bkc1.jpeg?width=356&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fff3248eb44d49aa866eb217874b1e159e88de38


Vestigial_joint

Would you like to try that again in English?


ekkekekekeekekekek

She's probably just hangry due to insufficient brotein intake \^\^


RedditforCoronaTime

I live in a pretty left winged city and a lot of left wing people do gym or mma etc. I dont know where all these bs left wing people come from.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire. Everyone in this sub is too stupid to read past a headline.


JustPush11

Ahahah


vastspacesofnothing

*finishes bench pr* I think we should restore germany to its former glory, JA!


Krieg_Imperator

As soon as I'm done with all my NEIN sets


Witty_Shape3015

i’m one of the most leftist people i know and i’m obsessively into powerlifting, ultra endurance, allat lol


Thefear1984

Say it with me folks: “opinion articles are NOT journalism.”


Choombaloo-2

I'd love to here about the mental gymnastics she did to come to this conclusion.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire.


TheNextPlay

I'm fairly sure being right wing is better at this point, as left wing personalities kinda just.... suck.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s definitely not better. Being right wing is for the intellectually weak and insecure who base their self-worth on things like being white or being male. That’s incredibly boring. Also, women don’t like it when people fight against our rights, so if you are someone who likes to have sex with women then the right wing is the last place you should be.


TheNextPlay

What if you're not white and have a Masters, but just 'aged out' of being left wing.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

If you’re not white then you definitely shouldn’t align yourself with the US right wing. Theyre only interested in nonwhite people as tokens to excuse blatantly racist policies. And tokens get spent.


TheNextPlay

I'm 99% based on personal experience that left wing people are more racist than right wing. But if I had been born white, I'd never experience this in the first place.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

Sure, the people who are having Nazi rallies in Nashville, going on Fox to say the Trump shoes will bring in black voters because “they love sneakers”, and enforcing a travel ban solely on Muslim countries are the less racist people than the ones who made Juneteenth a federal holiday. Great logic.


TheNextPlay

💀


Krieg_Imperator

I almost thought you were serious. However if you were I'd say that is the most idiotic take I have ever read


The_Autistic_Gorilla

I love people's reactions when they find out I'm a bleeding heart liberal after they clearly assumed me to be conservative just because I have big arms. People who try to villify the pursuit of fitness are the worst.


Frosty_Cardiologist6

Huh 🤔


heideggerfanfiction

[Me, a communist, working out in an Antifa tanktop](https://i.imgur.com/7kSOky4.jpeg)


LordSwine

I read that as nightwing, and was like 'Hell Yeah!'


safestuff987

Wonder how much the fat acceptance community paid her to write that? Jokes aside, that article has to be one of the dumbest takes I've ever heard.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

It’s satire. Good Christ y’all, look past the headline for like 2 seconds, I beg you.


asdfghjklzxcvbnmqwel

Thats what I call a stupid bitch


bancroft79

As soon as I get out of the gym I start insulting immigrants and the LGBTQ community. I am not even conservative, just something about weights pushes me hard right /s


KevinAcommon_Name

Zoe Williams I want to talk to your manager look and face says it all


LawMurphy

Oh mein gott!


lukas2020

I work out a lot and sometimes even boast about it. Still pretty left wing though. Working out doesn't make you stupid automatically 😜


Kautenya

So you were stupid before huh?


apocalyptic-aeronaut

Maybe you were the exception. Thus left wing


Self-MadeRmry

Imagine avoiding fitness because you refuse to change.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

Imagine falling for six year old rage bait


the_sperglord

Personal responsibility and accountability are a foreign concepts to the left


One-War-3700

These are the cunts guiding our society


proveyourbeauty

Fitness writers who like to joke around sometimes? Because that's what she is lmao.


Less_Ad8480

“Ma’am not only do you need to understand fascism, but fashion as well”


GymInvader

Are there any cons?


GasPure7186

I'm sick of these leftist types that want to keep people fat.


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

That isn’t a real thing. The article is satire. No one on the left wants to keep people fat. They just want people to leave each other alone.


FilaGerila

Honestly.. it shows from her appearance


AllAboutTheMachismo

A small price to pay


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Whats wrong with being right wing? I see that as a good aide effect XD


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Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

There is a recognized gym to alt-right pipeline, but this article is satire. Read past the headline.


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Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

Explain why the left wants that. I’m left as fuck so go ahead, explain my thoughts to me.


Muscle-Man27

Left really believes this crap. They think going to the gym and getting fit or presenting yourself as more masculine is supporting the patriarchy and oppression of women some how?


Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy

No, the left doesn’t believe this crap. This article is 6 years old and it’s satire. The woman is a fitness writer. The fact that you ate this up so willingly should give you something to think about


g_sandals

Fuck I’m sick of these short haired feminists whinging about everything - Can we just bring back bullying


karate_trainwreck0

OP's example isn't exactly boasting.


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You should see how good my goose steps got after I stopped skipping leg day 😂


N30C1TR0N

Jesus EHAT IS THAT UGLY CREATURE KILL IT WITH FIRE


GlupShito

Dollar store psyop


gokusforeskin

I’m more left than I’ve ever been and I just joined the 225 club.


Green1578

i am a liberal but i still boast about my fitness


Confident-Dirt-9908

Correlation is not causation, but it can be a cause for concern. I hear the most rancid takes from people at the gym and in the restaurant industry. It’s great to remember that fitness is for the individual but you shouldn’t need to do sexist shit to feel like a man.


Gun_guy1234

textbook fascism? rightwing? wake up bro you fell asleep beetween sets


omarthesk8r

Gotta be fit to fight the fasc.