Cankles…Something To Worry About?

Posted on 29 July 2009

I was reading through the Edmonton Journal and ran across an article, ‘Rankled by Cankles?’  The title twigged my interest, so I clicked and started to read.  Apparently, women don’t have enough issues fighting the muffin top, the double wave arm fat, cellulite, gravity, crow’s feet, and grey hair.  We also need to be concerned about the possibility of developing cankles!

A cankle, for those of you that don’t know, is when your calf goes straight down into your ankle.  It’s unclear how a cankle comes to be, but society has decided that beautiful women shouldn’t have cankles.  Women have even gone so far as to dub themselves ‘cankle survivors’ and trainers are making money off of cankle busting workouts.

Dear gracious!  Can’t we accept that real women may in fact have a cankle or two and just enjoy the cankles of life as they come?  I think we have more important things to worry about than the possibility of developing cankles!