By: Michael Beiter

I get a lot of messages.

Today, three DM's are on fire about the following:

1.) Exercise leads to toxic masculinity - an article was published with the subtitle: Physical fitness creates a level of toxic masculinity that must be eradicated.

Written by a feminist, I asked for the argument of symmetry. If exercise makes you toxic to your biological sex hormone (testosterone for males) does exercising make females toxically feminine (estrogen)?

2.) Health at every size - We have mounds of data that proves this is not true. But like the move away from merit-based school and sports, this disincentivizes work and leads people to believe obesity is healthy. It is not.

3.) Clinician education that teaches the stress of stigma and bias like fatphobia is causing mental health issues rather than the condition of being overweight itself.

A former client in continuing education sent me slides from her study about the move away from facts and embrace of subjective feelings instead.

Yikes. Uh oh. Shit.