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Samantha 💉 Bassler 🎼🎹's avatar

Excellent post! I especially appreciated how Robinson brought up the intersection with erasure of race and identity when people used to say “I see everyone the same!” It’s important to highlight these intersectionalities because we can help one another as marginalized groups. I wanted to add to the bit about disability—I use primarily Apple Fitness +, and there is also an amputee on that platform. To be honest, while it does address inclusion of disabled representation to an extent, I still think fitness companies could improve. There could be a lot more on modifications for people with chronic pain, or perhaps less of a emphasis on devaluing easy routines or calling them ‘beginner routines’. Some of us who are disabled aren’t beginners, we just need something chill. Anyway, I love this very much.

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H R's avatar

I loved this. As a fat person who loves exercise, it can be exhausting navigating spaces where the narrative for why I’m there working out is fixed in other peoples’ minds and difficult for me to alter.

I’ve been thinking about the idea here that Peloton needs instructors who are fat and more body diverse, but how those instructors will need a “thick skin,” and…the thought of this made me sad and exhausted. I’m so tired of fat people having to make a choice between invisibility and abuse in order to be included and made visible in the world. Just so tired.

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