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#LikeAGirl: What young girls teach me about the woman I want to be

July 2, 2014by Caitlin 23 Comments

This past Sunday, I did as I often do, which is get up at an obscenely early hour and drive to the site of a race.  Except this time I […]

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Gender and Sports, Heart and Mind

Thinking about Rachel Cosgrove’s defense of her new book

May 30, 2013by Caitlin 62 Comments

Rachel Cosgrove recently put out her second book, Drop Two Sizes, and the reception has been…well, from what I’ve seen, it’s been what you could charitably call “ambivalent.”  Charlotte Anderson […]

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Fitness Industry Fails, Media and Celebrities

Study finds female runners less competitive than male runners, but why?

February 14, 2013by Caitlin 34 Comments

We’ve all heard the gender stereotype, that women are supposed to be more cooperative while men are supposed to be more competitive.  I generally tend to push back against such […]

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Gender and Sports, Running

Opening combat to women raises questions about fitness standards

January 24, 2013by Caitlin 27 Comments

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced an end to the ban on women in combat positions that had been in place since 1994.  While a lot of people are […]

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Women and Muscles

Planet Fitness’ ‘judgment-free zone’ doesn’t extend to muscular women

December 6, 2012by Caitlin 39 Comments

Planet Fitness has been trying to carve out a niche for itself as a gym where so-called normal people can exercise in a “judgment-free zone” but ironically they can’t quite […]

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Fitness Industry Fails, Gender and Sports

Dissecting the cult of the curlbro

October 16, 2012by Caitlin 15 Comments

When those spectacularly awkward photos of Paul Ryan showing off his mad lifting skills surfaced on the internet last week, I flipped through them and thought, “I knew it!”  I […]

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Gender and Sports

My relationship to sports viewership is complicated

July 19, 2012by Caitlin 8 Comments

It was the headline that launched a million headdesks. The article in question – “Wives watch sports for husbands’ sake, study reports” – hit the series of tubes, only to […]

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Gender and Sports

The misgendering of Brittney Griner

April 3, 2012by Caitlin 52 Comments

You’d think I’d have learned by now, but alas, I have not.  I go onto Twitter for just about every major national event, and every time I am astonished by […]

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Gender and Sports

For the last time – yes, you can be feminine and play sports!

March 15, 2012by Caitlin 15 Comments

While reading my tumblr dashboard last week, I came across a quote from Jessica Simpson that left me trapped in a cycle of *headdesk* and *facepalm.* In a recent issue […]

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Gender and Sports, Media and Celebrities

Embracing the ‘woman’s work’ of cooking

November 22, 2011by Caitlin 7 Comments

The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year for many, many reasons, but maybe my favorite reason of all is that it means I get to cook […]

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Food and Food Politics

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