tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19133799.post8298302238244477149..comments2023-11-25T05:18:00.968-05:00Comments on Sports, Media & Society: Images that "sell" to young female athletes<a href="http://comm.psu.edu/about/centers/john-curley-center-for-sports-journalism">The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism</a>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02939720788476724001noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19133799.post-74195831014340693492010-03-10T23:00:07.314-05:002010-03-10T23:00:07.314-05:00The paramount question that arose regarding the st...The paramount question that arose regarding the study demonstrating that athletic women attract young girls attention was, when, and how does this change? At what physical, societal, and media shaped age do girls begin to cross over towards attraction to the "feminine" look? Can we address when and why the modeling of the feminine"Barbie" ideal becomes the preferred female shape and identity over an athletic, or say, intellectual girl-becoming- woman ideal? And why are women, themselves, so afraid when older, to be identified w/an athletic physique?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19133799.post-88637211708979883742009-11-09T07:41:19.060-05:002009-11-09T07:41:19.060-05:00Texas A&M has a women's basketball team ph...Texas A&M has a women's basketball team photo on its website that's being debated around the Internet. I'm a lesbian and like to look at attractive women, but this isn't my idea of how college student-athletes should be depicted.<br /><br />http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/44402326#/44402326/1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com