“Broga” Sounds Terrible, Says Actual Yoga-Practicing Man

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Last week, Time ran a story with the headline "Broga: Finally, Yoga For Dudes," which is about studios that are offering competitive, "manlier"**yoga for men. Which immediately irritated me, because not only is that is a terrible name, but there are always men in my yoga class, so it's not as if they've been banned all these years. Is this another crappy marketing campaign--like Dr. Pepper Ten*or*Charles Barkley's Weight Watchers ads--to make men believe that caring about health is innately feminine (unless there is a specific male product to make it less so)?*Or are many men secretly suffering from a serious phobia of being surrounded by flexible, lululemon-swaddled bodies? "Broga" brought up many questions for me--so I asked Neal Pollack, an actual who does actual, non-bro-specific yoga. More »Post from: Blisstree