Same with mine! There’s been a lot of outreach and acceptance and many women have discovered that training can be a joy. I think much credit can also be granted to the sport of women’s powerlifting, which is growing rapidly

Incredibly disingenuous of you to phrase it as “unable to deny that it’s good” while posting irrelevant snippets from studies. Yes, research is still ongoing on how much resistance training is needed to reap the full benefits. Research of this type will always be ongoing.

Meanwhile, the consensus of all medical experts is that women should be training because it has the power to reverse the course of this debilitating illness, among about a hundred thousand other significant benefits. We’re not at the “looking into it” stage, we’re at “the mayo clinic officially recommends training” stage.

Everyone with an idea of how debilitating illnesses usually play out will have correctly identified this as a being a miracle. You, like me, should be rejoicing in this fact and going out into the streets to yell this news at everyone who will listen.

It is such a sadness that women have for so long been robbed of their opportunity to partake in training due to stigma

It’s a serious concern. To properly lose weight with the support of these drugs you need resistance training and to eat right

It’s actually even worse than it sounds.

This is a solved problem. Resistance training is incredibly effective at not just preventing but totally reversing bone loss in women. That is on top of about a hundred thousand other proven benefits of training. Literally 30 minutes a week at planet fitness with a halfway decent plan can gift you 30+ quality adjusted life years.

But how do we treat this proven, accessible, miraculous cure to this life threatening problem that every woman faces? Well, we endure extreme societal pressure to avoid lifting weights at all costs of course! Wouldn’t want to accidentally become too manly!

Literally everyone should be sickened by this state of affairs

It makes sense to me. I remember the incident, it was intriguing if nothing else. Why was this allowed to happen? And from there people just keep looking into it further

I consider it to have landed very well actually. Not sure how common it is for people to be seeing separate up/downvotes, but the comment is actually perfectly symmetrical with (as I’m checking now) about 50 votes both up and down. The responses I have received have also been equally split on sentiment, with several tuned in to the spirit of the joke and several taking issue with it at face value.

Humor is not just silliness, yes? It’s a way to address serious topics. So in a way it’s kind of the ideal result, sparking division and discussion on the topic. I post in this style often and had assumed this would be yet another generally well received but under the radar little post, so while I was surprised by the controversial reception, in the end I feel it was a good outcome

Worry not my friend, it is a joke. One meant to draw attention to the absurdity its structure by being directed at such a large mass of people. The majority of all people, really.

Growing up queer, this is a style of joke that absolutely bombards you. It’s very visceral, no? Being openly attacked or deemed inferior because of who you are, when you know there isn’t a shred of truth to it?

But while intended as humor, as the conversation here develops, I am reminded that many of the people on Lemmy, who I love, may in fact be vulnerable in this situation where the intent is not made clear. My apologies it this has caused any anxiety, hopefully this will serve as proper clarification

So in other words, you are yet another pathetic heterosexual incapable of direct communication, even when directly prompted to do so?

Correct. I am an expert on straight people. You are clearly an expert on females. I challenge you to a formal debate

So you and the boys all have issues with women? And you’re sure it’s just the women who are the issue?

I’m guessing you haven’t dated a lot of men?

Straight people aren’t big into the communication thing; they view it as unnecessary training wheels on their journey to direct telepathic communication

I’m seeing many older people in the workforce experience the same thing. I think people will be very frustrated with how hard turning their brains back on will be after leaving them idle for so long

The people actually making the music: I mastered this album with the $100 audio technica headphones and checked if it sounded good in my car

Self proclaimed audiophiles listening to that same music: for about twenty thousand dollars you can get a basic setup, sure. But to really understand the artist’s intention you need at least a hundred grand

I have a 6 year old iphone. And the literal only enticing feature of the new ones is that the base models have 4x the storage space lol

How do they manage that? Like where do the ads actually display?