Curves has such a commitment to women's health - except the reproductive kind
Diane Heavin of Curves recently received the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas 2005 Businesswoman of the Year Award. I'm not kidding. The article includes the following gem:
Diane Heavin is also a philanthropists [Ed. note: she's apparently plural, too!], providing funding for healthcare and health education for women, family abuse prevention, adoption services, and more.
HEALTH EDUCATION?! Is this a joke? Yes, all that health education is just swell. Except for the part where the Heavins donate millions of dollars to nutball anti-choicers whose idea of health education is telling pregnant women that getting an abortion gives you breast cancer. I wonder if the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas counted those donations in their calculations.
Here's some health education for you: ladies, please don't support businesses that give 10% of their profits to crazy people who spend their lives working to take away your reproductive rights and scaring pregnant women. It's bad for your health - in so many ways. Might I suggest you join a different women-only gym? Austin has Premiere Lady Fitness. You'll find Lady USA in several Dallas suburbs. My hometown, Richardson, has Trophy Fitness for Women. Lady of America has several locations in towns across Texas, including Amarillo, The Woodlands, San Antonio, and some D/FW area towns. Many other gyms have women-only sections, and these nice folks have a little database you can search to find one in your town. Curves has a cuter name, for sure, but they're doing us wrong after hours. Y'all go do some crunches somewhere that's not owned by people who want to keep your belly big in that one particular way, okay?