I’m just going to say it: It’s time to stop viewing health and fitness through the lens of men. We need more feminism in fitness. Renowned American sociologist Allan Johnson said, “A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centered.” For too long, health and fitness narratives have been dominated by a narrow, problematic perspective—one that centers the needs and desires of white, heterosexual, cisgender men. What is the patriarchy? The term patriarchy refers to a social system where men control a disproportionately large share of social, economic, political, and religious…
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