Episode 60: Dismantling Long and Lean Part 1

Movement Logic: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held

Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 60 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this much requested first part of a three-part episode series, Laurel and Sarah discuss the phrase long and lean from a historical and sociological perspective. They cover the idealized image of women through art with a historical gaze, then unpick the narrative around becoming long and lean, how diet and exercise became front and center for this impossible ideal, and where we are today with social media, photoshop, and AI in the mix.

You will learn:

• How bad Medieval artists were at drawing human bodies
• How the Renaissance ideal form was the exact opposite of long and lean
• “Ideal” female forms through the 20th and 21st centuries
• The inherent misogyny, internalized anxiety, and social pressure of long and lean
• Whether the diet and exercise boom of the 1980s had anything to do with health
• Why GOOP is indeed a four letter word
• How ‘problem areas’ keep us busy objectifying our bodies and how this is a feature of our modern capitalist society

And more!

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Reference links:

The Toast Looks Back: The Best Of Two Monks

Met Museum

https://greatist.com/grow/100-years-womens-body-image#1

https://www.worldometers.info/weight-loss/

Diet Drugs

Fitness in the 80s

https://fitisafeministissue.com/2014/10/01/cankles-more-broken-body-parts-you-can-feel-bad-about-or-please-lets-just-stop/

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/fitness-wellbeing/news/a37546/problem-areas-your-body-fat-explained/

Latoya Shauntay Snell

Roz the Diva

Roz was a guest in our podcast - listen here

@fatbodyPikates

Damali Fraiser