#LikeAGirl: What young girls teach me about the woman I want to be
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 […]
Tag Archives: gender
Thinking about Rachel Cosgrove’s defense of her new book
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 […]
Study finds female runners less competitive than male runners, but why?
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 […]
Opening combat to women raises questions about fitness standards
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 […]
Planet Fitness’ ‘judgment-free zone’ doesn’t extend to muscular women
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 […]
Dissecting the cult of the curlbro
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 […]
My relationship to sports viewership is complicated
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 […]
The misgendering of Brittney Griner
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 […]
For the last time – yes, you can be feminine and play sports!
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 […]
Embracing the ‘woman’s work’ of cooking
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 […]
Fit and Feminist 