Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

The funny thing is that no one actually uttered the words "why is the chubby guy running?", despite it being the anecdote that spawned this academic paper that needed the work of 5 experts from 3 continents.

We take as our starting point an experience recounted by Gage:

"I ran a 5k when I was thirty-nine weeks pregnant, which was kind of hilarious
because I passed … My best friend from childhood and I were running, and we
were sort of laughing because people would look at me, but it was almost like a
fatphobic, ‘why is the chubby guy running?"