The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle

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News Source : The New Yorker

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  • In 1991, President George H
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  • Bush posed with two bodybuilders on the South Lawn of the White House
  • The eighties, embracing excess, loosened Americans’ suspicion of flagrant muscle
  • Women, it was said, wanted not muscle but “tone,” which was thought to be achieved through “fat-melting” repetitions
The photo op is an emblem of a discarded time. Taken in 1991, during the second annual Great American Workout, a fitness event hosted on the South Lawn of the White House, it shows President George H [+9962 chars]

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