Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 30, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wei hip pm to More hot Pihu research foundation 106471 William a vague Manitoba re c21 Winnipeg free press november 1987 pages 1320 Womak inventors tack old boys Tempo by Nikki Finke los Angeles times and you thought aerobics videos were Good for you not says University of Southern California re searcher Margaret who Over a period of two years watched hundreds of hours of aerobics videos by such exercise gurus As Jane Raquel Kathy Debbie Reynolds and Richard she she says in a newly published that nearly All the tapes encourage passive Many show women As sexual objects and some even have a soft porn Content Complete with heavy sexy stares and lingering shots on parts of the body not directly related to the exer exercise she May be Good for women bodies but harmful to their controversial a 43yearold assistant professor at the us school of expects her findings to be and they judging from the reactions of some Well known video exercise i resent the says Raquel whose yoga based tape is a bonafide i think its a lot of Steve a spokesman Jane Mattero factly denounced the research As anyone who has spent 10 seconds looking at one of Janes videos knows but several other famous names in aerobics agreed with Many of morses Kathy whose videos regularly rank right behind fondas in says that Morse definitely has a when i see exercise videos that have girls or arching their backhand throwing up their fannies in contorted i find that instructional but Smith maintains that the majority fall More into the Range of trying to be the subject of morses published this month in a journal for theoretical studies in and might be Dis missed As frivolous by but and aerobics have become a vital part of american life in recent according to the International dance exercise based in san 22 million people nationwide engaged in aerobics in and 29 per cent of them used aerobics 15 million tapes have been sold since the first one went on the and fondas videos alone have sold million study finds exercise videos highly suggestive Fonda leads the Way morses study grew out of her own slavish Devotion to aerobics but even As she faithfully did the she discovered that she had mixed feelings about the and decided to Analyse exactly my attempt was to assess the meaning of aerobics today in our because i feel aerobics is the Symbol of the state of women Morse her method of research was to take the bestselling videos on the Market and to watch them Over and sometimes As Many As 15 at Normal in slow motion and at fast then she examined the or the visual and verbal of each i Analysed How in being addressed As a How space and time Are structured and How the body is As Well As the Overall she political rhetoric not Morse found that there were a lot More to the videos than just jumping she she that Many of them Laid claim to an openly Femi nist often couched in political Jane Morse leads the Way by implying on her tapes that exercise prepares people to pursue a healthy activism in other parts of their and Welch subtly claims that people who May not be Able to change what happens in the world can effect real change on themselves through All this would suggest that the videos Are progressive in their not according to instead of encouraging women to feel better about them she maintains that Many of the videos try to turn them into weak willed one reason is the Way that aerobics videos stress strictly follow the Leader exercise hat it All comes Down to is that instead of making women More Independent in aerobics really Doest provide the empowerment it the re searcher on this Simmons was in total there Are a lot of exercise videos out there that Are for step Ford he Welch there is an Assumption that a Banner of feminism is supposed to be carried into the but i think Shes really searching for something that not but the really damaging aspect of most Morse is the Way they make women feel about their while women May Purchase the tapes with the goal of developing a firmer Phy what there really buying is an oppressive image of their own Morse Lithe and Lovely by presenting All those Lithe and Lovely by emphasising All those by showing All those curve revealing the tapes make it Clear exactly what a great body looks theres nothing wrong with having a great she but there is something wrong with having a great body Ideal that imposed on it tends to make us judgmental about people who dont measure its like a moral failure on their even Debbie Reynolds video though aimed at the over40 Audi ence in morses very obviously organized around appearance and presenting herself As a sexual the message was i want my body to be Good to look at for other but Reynolds defends i didst do my tape to diminish women feelings about them i did it for women who already feel diminished and want to look a bit the actress Simmons agrees with Morse that the vast majority of tapes present exercise instructors who look like mannequins All size claims to have spent Sev eral weeks asking women what kind of aerobics instructor they wanted to see on and it was real interesting because they said they would rather look at someone As a role Over the Bounds As for nearly All the tapes were according to morses but some stepped Over the Bounds of Good taste in a big she it should come As no Surprise that Playboy in morses an unabashedly porno graphic even Morse was shocked when the instructors did a striptease during the routine and then the camera recorded the nude women exercising in slow but several legitimate exer Cise videos had a soft porn Content As Morse claiming that the popular Sandahl bergmans 20minute aerobics and aerobic ize Are openly she cites fetish fixation closeups legs and thighs instructors with Mouths open in alluring come hither expressions ridiculously revealing exercise and camera action that seems to simulate sexual on the plus Morse approved of some aspects of Simmons videos because he includes a wide Range of body types among his and she praises Smiths tapes be cause they present a new Way to visualize aerobics with camera angles that show the exercise from the exercisers Point of View and not just from the so which videos does Morse personally use Kathy Smith and Raquel but ill never look like either one of she says with a judds reject Abc show by Brian Mctavish the Kansas City Star a recent talk with Naomi the parental half of the award winning motherland daughter country singing yielded this information Don life happiness is not at the end of the its All along the d on lifestyle Wynonna the 23yearold daughter half of the duo likes to kid me that if a Man has a Loose Button on his shirt ill sew it Back before he knows what hit i still love cleaning my cooking pumpkin work ing in the i like my private i have a door mat that reads go wild world d on the world is too its too awful put i think the most important thing that any Par ent can do is give their kid 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