I still wonder how people would react if Maria Kang weren’t so pretty. What if she didn’t have long hair and such delicate, feminine features? I’ll bet no one would pay the slightest bit of attention to her.

There are better ways at motivating people. “What’s your Excuse” is really just blatant peer pressure, with a pretty face. No thanks. I didn’t just fall off the stupid truck.

Women like her, the “all you have to do to look like hottie me is exercise and eat healthy” ones, are why I looked at pics of myself just completing my first Spartan Sprint at age 43 with a top 45% overall finish, top 30% female finish and had the initial thought of “I look fat.” Needless to say, that is a ridiculous thought and I was immediately pissed at myself for doing it, but unrealistic expectations of what a fit, single mother who works full-time based on images presented by women like Ms. Kang at the very least feed into that skewed mentality of not promote and exploit it for gain and notoriety.

Bottom line– shame on her and she should have known better. She should provide a REAL positive example and offer a real apology with some grace and humility.

Why not just ask that question, “Why do women react to the photo the way they do?” which would get you your answer. Instead, you made a statement about women getting along, which I felt sounded condescending.

Either way, the photo (actually, it was her question IN the photo) obviously struck a chord with many women for a certain reason (their reasons are valid, I’m sure) so why the need to make people feel small with your statement? If you truly desire to know the answer, pose the question. But telling women to ‘get along’ is annoying and unproductive, IMO. Men aren’t commenting on her photo because her question seemed to be directed at moms, as she used her status as a busy mom to drive her point. That’s why I wasn’t personally offended as I’m not a mom and my ‘excuses’ have nothing to do with kids. But if I was a mom I might feel differently.