A guest post by Stefani Ruper at Free the Animal: No One’s Power but Our Own: Paleo Sexist Woes, and an Invitation to Rise Up and Roar

Who is pressuring women to have extremely chiseled muscles and very little body fat? Not that average man. Keoni Galt does a good job of showing how it is not the fault of patriarchy that women have this distorted ideal of beauty. (Do men in the paleo world push this ideal? Certainly they do advocate that women shoudl be fit and strong and use weights. But having low body fat?)

As for the assumption that men and women have the same physiological needs and markers for health that underlies some [most?] medical research: this is a legitimate criticism, and sex differences in health should be studied more thoroughly.