I feel as if I've written about
Claire Zulkey's "Muscle Mania" article in Flak Magazine before, but I can't locate any such article. Here's a clip:
In just the last few years, however, female muscles have become de rigueur. In 1997, during my freshman year of college, pumping big-time iron wasn't the thing to do; girls worked out, maybe a little 'body sculpting,' but that was it. Sophomore year, everybody seemed to be reading "Self." Junior year it was Tae-Bo. Suddenly, in fall of 2000, I had a roommate who took Hydroxy-Cut, spent two hours a day at the gym and lamented that she only had a visible four-pack gripping her abdominal muscles, instead of the desired full six. And she was far from alone; the gym was packed with weight-lifter women.
I know I've read it before, but it appears that for some inexplicable reason I never wrote about it.
