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Hello all,
I’m a researcher at Loughborough University, studying social attitudes toward gender with particular regards to sports. Specifically, I’m really interested in what people have to say about women’s involvement in different kinds of sports, such as how people respond to seeing things like women’s boxing, weightlifting, and other sports of a tough, physical nature, or what they think about men participating in sports like netball or dance.
I’ve recently launched an online survey to try to get some measure of what people today think about this sort of thing, among other things that might divide opinion about what men and women do. I would really appreciate responses from anyone who has a few minutes spare; it’s mostly multiple choice and takes around 10 minutes to complete:
http://www.survey.lboro.ac.uk/gender_sport/
If anyone has anything else to say about this topic then a little debate on here would be cool. Thanks a lot for your time folks!
Alex
As a man who has no particular interest in sport, I much prefer watching women doing sports than men, because they generally look nicer!
A timely thread, given the fuss over the Womens (?) 800 metre winner at the World Champs in Berlin.
According to the experts there are many factors that blur the distinction between sex and gender, and that maybe there should be a third category for those individuals who don’t fit into society’s binary boxes of ‘male’ and ‘female’.
This could then be filled by bearded 18 year old girls, who have muscles in places where I don’t even have places. And Christian Ronaldo of course.
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Thanks for the responses guys. Definitely be interesting to see how the Semenya case pans out… either she reveals something about how sex is not a straightforward male/female binary as you suggest, or the IAAF eats its words and has to stop assuming that outstanding female performances should always be suspect.
I wouldn’t mind a bet that the runner in question has/had a nob,and before anyone jumps on it …….. so speak :shock: i would also bet that they prove it……. well i bet they prove it however they prove it,whether it be by his/her five o’clock shadow or the discovery of balls :wink: ,i know it’s more technical but why beat around the bush …….. ffs i’m at it again :D
I love watching big buff sweaty men in tiny trunks.
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