Originally posted 2010-07-29 07:59:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
** editors note, I don’t know what is with wordpress sometimes….this post is now 24 hours into trying to be published. I hope it is this time**
When is it time to say enough is just e-freaking-nough?? (Sure the language is not as cantankerous as possible but we have to have some family decorum. Like it or don’t.)
So I am on today about people who push themselves to be “Guru’s” in their field. Now I know that this is the idea behind muchof the business we are in with blogging and product creation. We have to make people respect us and want to pay for our opinions on things. That is fine, go forth and create. Just don’t fill us with bull crap along the way.
Now, this will make my wife mad but here is what has been bugging me. Jillian Freaking Michaels. Now it doesn’tmatter what her real qualifications are, she has set herself up to be the know-all, be-all of fitness and training. Now I am not saying that this necessarily a bad thing. That is what we are trying to do. But there are extremes.
Ms. Michaels is just about EVERYWHERE now. She is on 2 TV shows, has food supplements, a web site, a ton of fitness equipment and video games. All geared toward making you feel bad about yourself. I mean getting a person to lose weight because in her world, if you are not like her, you are a fat pig.
I guess what has really gotten me going about her is the smug, airbrushed, windblown poses that grace every product she puts her grimy name on. I was listening to one of her radio show podcasts at the insistence of my wife and there was a caller who was on saying how she worshipped Jillian Michaels and how she was the best ever and how the sun rose and set in her pants, blah blah blah.
Category: Down with, rants
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