Shame! Shame! Shame! I keep hearing this from protesters who still haven’t accepted the election results. I’ve heard it in recordings of town hall meetings. Remember the people who tried blocking Betsy DeVos from entering a public school in Washington last month? The man that stupidly stood in front of her moving vehicle yelled, “Shame! Shame! Shame!” at her.
I’m convinced these are people who really got off on the shame walks portrayed in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
These are the same people who whine about clothes that are made for skinny people are designed to fat shame not so skinny people. And fat shaming is bad.
Shaming is bad. Except when they do it.
I find it all absurd. Especially muscle shaming.
Meet Greg. Greg is supposedly a grown < insert his preferred sexual partner's gender > < insert his race > –I’ve excluded these details because I think it’s weird that people feel the need to announce who they sleep with and the color of their skin–man who can “handle his feelings.” What Greg can’t handle it seems, is anyone who has muscles beyond the size of Pee Wee Herman’s muscles.
I’m talking about the crippling bout of fear I experience each and every time I cross paths with a macho-man — am I going to be judged, am I going to be attacked?
Why would he have this “crippling” fear of muscles? Do burly men randomly attack him for being skinny? Do these strapping studs spank his scrawny seat just for existing?
Nah. It seems Greg who-lives-in-fear-of-being-judged likes to judge and shame heavy-lifters.
But each time I’ve let these meatheads know that eating meat is murder and that their time would be much better spent building brain mass instead of muscle mass…
Here’s a thought, Greg. Mind your own business. I doubt any of these men asked you for your opinion on their health, so I can only assume that you just decided to dish your judgmental life choices onto them and they didn’t appreciate it. So much for the idea of choice. And what about those men that identify as muscly men? Do they not have the right to change their appearance to match their identity?
Greg says “muscle is intimidating.” No it’s not. Not to anyone who claims to be able to handle his feelings. “Muscle is insecurity.” No it’s not. Let’s face it Greg, you’re insecure about your lack of muscle mass and are projecting that onto your assumed foe.
“Muscle is intellectual laziness.” He proves this with a picture of the statue of The Thinker, claiming that his muscles are probably natural because he did not lift. Excuse me for a moment…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay. I’m back.
There’s more blah blah blah about climate change, how muscles are bad and stuff, and the only appropriate amount of muscle you should have is whatever you had before you started training–he includes resistance training in this part, so I’m guessing he would object to the amount of muscle dancers have since everything they do is resistance training.
If you want to participate in Greg’s Muscle Shaming he lays out some guidelines. Be careful though because his guidelines contradict his guidelines. For example: Yell Shame! Shame! Shame! at anyone you think may be into body sculpting, but also don’t engage them. Only shame them. Because shaming them isn’t engaging them. Or something.
Hopefully all you meat eaters got as much of a laugh at Greg as I did.
