Your Butt and Your Brain

I should just avoid reading things that I know will anger me, but I do it anyway.

All this stuff I have been reading on the internet is destroying people's enjoyment of fitness and giving them false impressions about their body, fitness regime, results, and next steps. I have decided that I am disappointed by a lot of this and I'm going to start calling out articles that I see as completely ridiculous and point the finger of blame to say that "YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM."

Here is my first call out. I have to -- not only did this article make me sad, it made me second-guess myself - and any article that does that to a member of their own community... well.... it'd be the same as my husband singing "Brown Eyed Girl" to me. 

"A Big Butt Is A Healthy Butt: Women with Big Butts are Smarter and Healthier."
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/big-butt-healthy-butt-study-says-women-big-butts-healthier/

Do I really really need to go into detail about why this is a problem? The two things I will actually give to this argument is that women with strong glutes, hamstrings, and thighs tend to be stronger and develop explosiveness and speed more quickly than those without. Additionally, it made a good point to say that women who tend to gain weight in their stomachs and upper bodies are more likely to develop heart issues than women who gain weight in their thighs and legs. That is true - very true - and very unfortunate. Fighting our genetic predispositions is one of the many drivers of committing to a healthy lifestyle. However, aren't we going a little far with saying your giant ass is just a reflection of your giant brain?

But let's get down to the real reason I have an issue with this: we are constantly looking at body types and saying that body type X is better than body type Y because of some random reason that could be linked to something else. (Hannah showed me a good headline the other day: 97% of Terminal Cancer Patients had a Root Canal----sigh). Isn't there enough scrutiny on our bodies? Why do we have to go one step further and make anyone who doesn't have a big ass (I'm raising my hand here) wonder for one second if they are not only less physically appealing from the rear than those with the ever-praised badonkadonk, but also less intelligent? Stop. Just stop. My tiny little butt can ride a bicycle over 100 miles and squat 155 pounds - and my tiny little brain ( clearly a result of my tiny little butt) fulfills my role as an engineer perfectly satisfactorily.

Ladies, let's just all be on the same team. Whether your body is thin and lean, or thick and strong, or whatever it may be - celebrate the fact that we're active, we're working to be better than we currently are, and that we're headed in the right direction. In my book, if you're doing that, you ARE smarter regardless of dimensions.