Going down that rabbit hole in my mind totally reminded me of these movies:
Not directed at you, but if there are “antidote” movies or stories that counteract this approach, I’m interested!
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non-paywall version: archive.ph
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Still waiting for the claims around “paternal instinct” to kick in. But, of course, instinct is not something usually associated with humans…
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Thanks! Really good read!
Off-topic a bit, but the part at the end about how the adult brain’s plasticity increased during parenthood was really interesting, too!
Also, I love how the author draws the arc from the suffragettes to more women in neuroscience a couple generations later.
The world seems shit so often nowadays, but there’s a lot of amazing progress to celebrate.
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We just have to make sure that the haters mad about progress made die mad instead of dragging us back…
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“Working out like men?” WTF does that mean? I am gonna take a guess they buy into “exercise harms the virgin zone and impairs fertility.” Straight out of 1850.
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The idea is to keep women svelte, but not strong. Tell women to stop cross-fit, weight lifting, yoga and pillâtes. Women can only be allowed to jog, 80’s-style aerobics or moderate swimming. 
Unfuck this guy, hockey starts next week. Look out, men, here I come.
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He is no woman’s gay best friend.
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Blast from the past here (2012), but first time I’d seen this:
Really fired me up and made me wish we had more like her over here!
I found it here:
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The Vice article had an internet archive link to the article about feminine exercise. You are spot on about harming fertility. Add in a crazy ass claim
Excessive exercise can cause the body to stop producing its own energy. This can cause hypothalamic pituitary suppression, which can potentially lead to fibromyalgia.
And, as @IronEdithKidd said, an emphasis on toning over muscle building. Though the article was pro-pilates. Probably bc of a claim it was developed to rehabilitate injured dancers. Nevermind Pilates developed it in an internment camp for his fellow prisoners. The dancers came later, IIRC.
It sounds somewhat reasonable at first. Dragging you in with an anecdote about a woman fracturing her spine during (but not necessarily because of!) A HIIT class. Ending with a reasonable sounding pitch to go for pilates, with a nod to yoga, and limit HIIT or CrossFit or other “men’s” exercise to once or twice a week. With the undertone that you should only do that if you must and really, it would be better to skip that altogether. Don’t want to risk fertility issues or fibromyalgia and looking to manly.
Yuck. 
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I have tried to make that clip make some sort of logical sense. It does not. In any way. “Excercise causes suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis.” Well, i did find this:
The conclusion of which was excercise was beneficial in fibromyalgia, which is not surprising. As for “excercise makes you stop making energy…” Well, that would make you dead. This is not commonly seen with excercise. Technobabble nonsense. Ye Gods, what idiots these mortals be!
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Oh, like the Thighmaster?
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Oh ye gods. They get even worse. Because dismissing the pain of women is such a stellar idea! /S
From the snark factory called Wonkette
Who among us doesn’t want to get health advice from a site that boldly claims that “painful periods aren’t natural” and suggests that they are instead caused by “birth control, plastics and beauty products” that create “hormone imbalances”? People who were literally put on birth control in order to manage their debilitating cramps that they got well before they were allowed to use any “beauty products,” probably!
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Jesus that’s straight out sadistic sociopathy. He’s not even pretending.
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Isn’t that what TFG believes? I seem to recall reading that’s why he avoids exercise.
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Yes, he believes that we’re born with a specific amount of energy and if we use it up by exercising, that means we’ll die sooner.
No, that does not make even the slightest bit of sense.
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