Comments on: Best of 2011: Issues in women’s sports http://www.wendyparker.org/2011/12/best-of-2011-issues-in-womens-sports/ Discoveries, rants and comfort-food cravings of a sports omnivore. Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bern http://www.wendyparker.org/2011/12/best-of-2011-issues-in-womens-sports/#comment-6705 Bern Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:03:39 +0000 http://www.wendyparker.org/?p=3784#comment-6705 Wendy, Looking forward to your 2012 projects. If they are anything like what you produced in 2011 they'll be amazing. Just so you know you're not rowing the boat alone we'll be pushing the following initiatives in 2012: - ACL injury levels in women's athletes. In particular we'll be addressing the unfair treatment of Mike Sokolov's classic, Warrior Girls by the Tucker Center in 2008. It is our belief that there is a well documented, decades long campaign by gender feminists in the academy to ignore injury frequency and severity in order to support their gender constructionist ideology in girls and women's sports. This has resulted in shockingly high levels of ACL injury in women athletes. To this day there is still no agreed upon standard exercise program to mitigate this risk to female athletes. Most people, other than the parents of women with blown out knees, have no idea of what is going on behind the scenes. We plan to educate them so they understand the risk and measures they can take before their knees those that they love are ruined. - Along with other organizations we'll be advocating for the inclusion of Competitive Cheerleading as a NCAA scholarship sport. You continue to produce uniquely incisive and candid takes on what is really going on in women's sports. It comes as little surprise that it has not yet gained the acceptance it deserves but we feel certain you are an important contributor of those that are laying the groundwork for important structural changes going forward that will truly benefit women's sports and their participants. Thanks for your efforts in 2011 and have a Happy New Year!! Bern Wendy,

Looking forward to your 2012 projects. If they are anything like what you produced in 2011 they’ll be amazing.

Just so you know you’re not rowing the boat alone we’ll be pushing the following initiatives in 2012:

- ACL injury levels in women’s athletes. In particular we’ll be addressing the unfair treatment of Mike Sokolov’s classic, Warrior Girls by the Tucker Center in 2008. It is our belief that there is a well documented, decades long campaign by gender feminists in the academy to ignore injury frequency and severity in order to support their gender constructionist ideology in girls and women’s sports. This has resulted in shockingly high levels of ACL injury in women athletes. To this day there is still no agreed upon standard exercise program to mitigate this risk to female athletes. Most people, other than the parents of women with blown out knees, have no idea of what is going on behind the scenes. We plan to educate them so they understand the risk and measures they can take before their knees those that they love are ruined.

- Along with other organizations we’ll be advocating for the inclusion of Competitive Cheerleading as a NCAA scholarship sport.

You continue to produce uniquely incisive and candid takes on what is really going on in women’s sports. It comes as little surprise that it has not yet gained the acceptance it deserves but we feel certain you are an important contributor of those that are laying the groundwork for important structural changes going forward that will truly benefit women’s sports and their participants.

Thanks for your efforts in 2011 and have a Happy New Year!!

Bern

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