Larger Female Athletes
Mistress Krista is looking for research subjects. On her women’s weight training site
she writes that she is looking for larger female athletes to interview.
From stumptuous.com:
Who wants to be an interview subject?! I’m looking for heavier female athletes in any strength or power sport to interview for an academic article I’m writing.
- What’s "heavier"? Deliberately vague, dependent on the sport, and also dependent on your own personal height-weight ratio.
- What’s "athletic"? Anyone from elite competitor to amateur athlete
to weekend warrior, as long as you can reasonably be said to be "fit". - Okay then what’s "fit"? "Fit" here means that you have a decent
level of overall conditioning (i.e. you aren’t going to have a heart
attack from a flight of stairs) and that you are able to meet all the
demands of your sport. - And what exactly is my sport? Any strength or power-based sport,
including (but not limited to) throwing, powerlifting, Olympic
weightlifting, Highland Games, boxing/grappling/any other form of
asskicking. - What’s "female"? Oh good heavens, do we have to discuss the social construction of "sex" as a conceptual category all the time?
All
interviews will be conducted according to appropriate ethical standards
of informed consent. There will be no anal probing, just a gentle
series of self-reflexive questions all about your awesome self. Where
else would you have the chance to go on about yourself to an interested
audience?
