Section 2F Flashcards
What sports regularly appear at the top of the epidemiological lists of sports injury?
Gymnastics and figure skating (more than football, ice hockey, and rugby).
What are some problems that women experience due to some sports being labelled as appropriate for them?
Age of competition drops, size height and weight norms drop, which causes amenorrhea, injury, and eating disorders.
Who was known as the Robotic Shrimp in the 1990s?
Tara Lipinsky.
Who are 3 athletes who succumbed to health implications of gendered sport?
Chrisy Henrich (my life’s a nightmare), Gymnastics.
Lyle Alzado (I outran, outhit, outanythinged anybody), NFL.
Ron Wolfley (I don’t mind that I’m going to break blood vessels in my face), NFL.
How does sport see weight in terms of gender?
Women and girls are encouraged to suppress their natural weight and size through dieting, increasing weight is a betrayal.
Men are encouraged to bulk up and see going up a size as a plus.
What percentage of programs in the NCAA that reported eating disorders are women’s sports?
93%
What percentage of women’s gymnastics reported eating disorders?
51%
What percentage of women in appearance sports (such as gymnastics and figure skating), suffer from an eating disorder?
62%
What percentage of american women have eating disorders?
18%
