How Pilates Girls Became An Incel Dog Whistle
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Why are manosphere influencers, Hinge bios and cast members of Love Is Blind requiring 'doing pilates' from their potential beaus?
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina get to grips with the pervasion of this particular exercise in pop culture, the potential abuse inherent in men's preferences towards women's exercise and whether or not we should consider the fascist implications of influencers selling fitness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe, and most importantly, please, please review. We got none. We got none and we need more and we need them always. Not mean ones. Nice ones only actually. And if you didn't already know, members get a free copy of every scene we put out as well as lots and lots of extra perks like one-on-one mentoring with Muwa. I group WhatsApp chat for I can talk with Moa and Aione. |
| 0:39.4 | And loads, loads more. |
| 0:41.3 | Sign up for you the link in our description. |
| 0:44.7 | You might have guessed, but do we have any reviews, Ione? |
| 0:45.6 | No. |
| 0:47.3 | What did it end? |
| 0:51.9 | This is from the Lena Donham episode on Spotify, though. |
| 0:53.2 | On Spotify. |
| 0:55.3 | Let me finish my sentence. On Spotify Spencer says finally a nuanced accountable yet empathetic take I loved the |
| 1:01.6 | book and agreed with most of your viewpoints this also feels like one of the few reviews |
| 1:05.6 | not just trying to crap on Lena slash the book and starting with an unkind lens as a |
| 1:09.8 | chronically ill baddie recently coming |
| 1:12.5 | to terms of new diagnoses. I think the writing hit hard for me in that aspect, but I would |
| 1:16.6 | have liked to see her touch on some of some more controversies. Love you both as always. Thank you. |
| 1:22.2 | Thank you. And then Emma says, the way I ran to listen to this, love hearing your takes on pop culture |
| 1:26.1 | so balanced and nuanced and also funny, lots of love. Thank thank you Emma I was thinking about this last night and I think |
| 1:31.3 | this is going to be the episode that gets us coxed dogs by who men men I can just imagine |
| 1:40.0 | who we're going to call Pilates fascist and then like a hundred people are going go to fatis and calling Pilates fascist. Speak for yourself, I'm a Sprightly size 8. Fine. I'm not a bullying accusation for me. No, no, no. Well, do you want to explain? You brought this to me. I did. Tell me about it. So, there I was. |
| 2:02.0 | There I was. |
| 2:03.2 | Once upon a time. |
| 2:04.1 | In my home. |
| 2:05.0 | In London. |
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