Brief: RFK Jr Flirts with Body Fascism (w/Natalia Petrzela)
Conspirituality1 Heinä 2023

Brief: RFK Jr Flirts with Body Fascism (w/Natalia Petrzela)

Friend of the pod and historian of American fitness culture, Natalia Petrzela, joins Matthew to shed light on a new development in RFK Jr’s campaign to disrupt the Democratic Party: his recent workout campaign videos from the barbell patio of Gold’s Gym in Venice beach. Topics include the iconic status of Gold’s, why Bobby Muscles is in Wranglers rather than lycra, how he’s both drawing on and distorting the Kennedy fitness legacy, body mastery as the ultimate American frontier, political pissing contests, the ableist “sweatwashing” of complex health policy problems, the body-shaming of soft, flabby, unpatriotic liberals, and how the whole scene—pumped by biohackers and tech bros—has some alarming political echoes. Show Notes Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession Matthew’s Twitter thread on Bobby Muscles echoing body fascism. "Go, you chicken fat, go!" — Meredith Wilson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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