Comments on: Reproductive Rights and Athletics: The Curious Tale of Female Ski Jumpers http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/ Sexuality & Society explores relationships between social institutions, cultural practices, sexual health, and sexual policy. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:19:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Neneh http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Neneh Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:03:59 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/?p=2862#comment-893 The argument of ski jumping damaging a woman's fertility makes absolutely no sense to me. Disregarding whether the comment is true or not, I don't see how it has any bearing on a woman's participation. What if she was proven infertile by another cause? Would she be allowed to compete then? To me, it smacks of the belief that a woman's goal in life is to reproduce, and her means to do so should be protected from damaging activities - otherwise, what use is she? (though obviously she's no use at being a ski jumper either, being frail and ladylike) The argument of ski jumping damaging a woman’s fertility makes absolutely no sense to me. Disregarding whether the comment is true or not, I don’t see how it has any bearing on a woman’s participation. What if she was proven infertile by another cause? Would she be allowed to compete then?

To me, it smacks of the belief that a woman’s goal in life is to reproduce, and her means to do so should be protected from damaging activities – otherwise, what use is she?

(though obviously she’s no use at being a ski jumper either, being frail and ladylike)

]]> By: Ruth http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/comment-page-1/#comment-854 Ruth Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:21:04 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/?p=2862#comment-854 Ike - Thanks for responding. I personally believe that equal rights is about letting people choose what they want to do to their body - whether it is to experience the rush of flying off a ski jump, wearing "girls" clothes to school if you are a boy, or allowing a woman to giving vaginal birth for her second delivery after delivering her first child by c-section. Freedom is all about having control over your body and what you do with it, not being forced to preserve it because others feel it is your duty to reproduce or that there could be harm in the activity you choose to engage in. - Ruth Ike -

Thanks for responding. I personally believe that equal rights is about letting people choose what they want to do to their body – whether it is to experience the rush of flying off a ski jump, wearing “girls” clothes to school if you are a boy, or allowing a woman to giving vaginal birth for her second delivery after delivering her first child by c-section. Freedom is all about having control over your body and what you do with it, not being forced to preserve it because others feel it is your duty to reproduce or that there could be harm in the activity you choose to engage in.

- Ruth

]]> By: Ike http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Ike Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:20 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/?p=2862#comment-827 Ski jumping could cause death, which isn't appropriate for gentlemen from a medical point of view. So obviously the solution isn't to allow women to ski jump, it's to ban any sort of activity that could possibly harm anyone participating in it. Right? >.< Ski jumping could cause death, which isn’t appropriate for gentlemen from a medical point of view. So obviously the solution isn’t to allow women to ski jump, it’s to ban any sort of activity that could possibly harm anyone participating in it. Right?

>.<

]]> By: Olympic Skiers Told Jumping Could Cause Infertility | Strollerderby http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Olympic Skiers Told Jumping Could Cause Infertility | Strollerderby Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:00:07 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/?p=2862#comment-728 [...] debate, Ruth Gregory, professor of women’s reproductive rights and athletics, says that the infertility argument was also once used to keep women from running marathons.  After Bobbi Gibbs, the first woman to run a public marathon, crossed the finish line, it took [...] [...] debate, Ruth Gregory, professor of women’s reproductive rights and athletics, says that the infertility argument was also once used to keep women from running marathons.  After Bobbi Gibbs, the first woman to run a public marathon, crossed the finish line, it took [...]

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