• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Tysm! Yeah I’d say I pretty much agree with that,

    However I think it would be a bad idea to cede health and fitness as being inherently right wing. I believe they’ve basically “set up shop” there to install a pipeline, like they try to do to everything.

    There’s a totally different perspective available for resistance training, one in which we build a supportive community that connects people from different backgrounds and disperses knowledge that can vastly improve people’s lives.

    I think we should make it political, in other words

    • A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      Very welcome!

      I agree with you that we should not let them just have these spaces. Also, as you said, we can change the perspective of these spaces as something to empower people.

      That’s one thing that Crossfit did / does really well. It builds a community around health and fitness. Obviously there is other baggage with Crossfit that I do not like, but it provides a model for how we can come together to support each other in that aspect of health.