Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino

"Barre feels like exercise the way Sweetgreen feels like eating: both might better be categorized as mechanisms that help you adapt to arbitrary, prolonged agony. As a form of exercise, barre is ideal for an era in which everyone has to work constantly--you can be back at the office in five minutes, no shower necessary--and in which women are still expected to look unreasonably good."