Not only were you oppressed, that's child abuse! How dare they let a poor innocent child outdoors without six layers of bubble wrap!? Outrageous.

The real peril is that a lady like yourself might, après ski, fall into the hands of masculine men at such a resort's night club. Imagine the exploitation!

(Somehow, I suspect Mark CJ Stoddart wishes he would suffer the same fate.)

Yes, yes, you are oppressed. My kids (one male and one female) are also oppressed because we strapped skis to their feet at age 3.

I, on the other hand, don't ski. So does that mean that I'm not oppressed? I'm confused. Frankly, I love ski trips because dad takes the kids out all day while I sit in a lovely chalet and write. Sounds oppressed to me!

In order to read the full paper, you have to either belong to this organization or pay $36, so I have no idea what they're trying to say or if they have any kind of point. Saying that "women ski too" isn't necessarily a counterclaim to their argument (whatever it is).

I too am disgusted by people who see "oppression" everywhere, but it doesn't seem intellectually honest to sneer at this if I have read only the abstract.

More importantly, did you ever learn how to knit?

while I sit in a lovely chalet and write.

This is the kind of "oppression" I endure now -- doing what I love.

Insufficient Poison, a secret about getting academics' work -- go to the person's university site or home page and there may be PDFs of there work.

I knit once or twice -- pretty badly -- as a child, and the truth is, it's painfully easy. I somehow taught myself to do it.

Here's the title of another article by the same "researcher":

ECOFEMINISM, HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 1998–2007: “WOMEN ALWAYS CLEAN UP THE MESS”

Nobody interjected the fact that it's racist, snow being white?

Mark CJ Stoddart: "The mountainous sublime is a site for performing athletic, risk-seeking masculinity.The backcountry and advanced terrain at ski resorts also appear as masculinized places. By contrast, less risky areas of the skiing landscape may be interpreted as 'gender-neutral' or feminized space."

He seems to be saying that men are more risk-seeking than women. I wonder if that has any implications in business, professional or social life?

Men are 'ski bums' and women 'ski bunnies' so that sport is misandry-based and racist because people of color just plain standout (snow is white).

Ok, show me on the doll where the bad mountain touched you.

MarkD: "Nobody interjected the fact that it's racist, snow being white?"

Here's an excerpt from the abstract of another "scholarly" article by one Anthony Kwame Harrison, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences:

Black Skiing, Everyday Racism, and the Racial Spatiality of Whiteness

...I advance the concept of racial spatiality to illustrate how processes of everyday racism work to secure skiing’s social spaces as predominantly White, thereby restricting the participation and representation of Black skiers. Skiing’s hegemony of Whiteness is discussed in relation to parallel integration strategies of Black ski organizations...

Jeez, all my life I've been blind to the racist implications inherent in skiing and the color of snow. Sort of gives another meaning to the term "snow blind". Should I feel guilt because of this, even though I've never skied or owned slaves?

After all she's shared of her life, and the themes in that sharing, it's stunning to learn that Amy has an affinity for snow skiing.

I agree that I find it hard to picture Amy skiing...

But, I've got to say that this whole thing is absurd. The "scholar" says they are "masculine spaces," but it looks like it is strictly assertion. It's athletic? So are ballet dancers. It's risky? So is giving birth.

Yes, men are generally bigger risk takers, but does this so-called scholar give any evidence that there is an iota of masculinity in the spaces themselves, or does he just assert it?

What would make a space "masculine?" Would it have to be criminal to wear pink? Would cosmetics be banned? Would all communication be required to be followed by a belch? Would there need to be many phallic images (snow dicks, perhaps)?

What would make a space feminine? Entirely pink? Tampons all over?

What gets me is that the liberals have gone all into gender fluidity, but that requires a strict definition of what each gender IS and likes. You used to be able to be a guy who happens to star in Riverdance or write poetry. Now you have to be effeminate-man or gender-questioning or something. It used to be I could be a gal who liked math, now I'm "nonconforming." How about we just let people be themselves and back off?

(sorry, this is really getting to me)

Next thing you know, they'll be saying we can't have urinals in the mens room because it makes the space too masculine for the women who might be there.

I agree that I find it hard to picture Amy skiing...

I could see her being a scout sniper for the Finnish army in 1940.

Would there need to be many phallic images (snow dicks, perhaps)?

Trees, hello?

they'll be saying we can't have urinals in the mens room because it makes the space too masculine for the women who might be there

Dude, there are only men in a men's room. They're either men or transmen. Don't be such a transphobe.

"After all she's shared of her life, and the themes in that sharing, it's stunning to learn that Amy has an affinity for snow skiing."

This is the most shocked I've ever been re Amy. I thought this was mounting sarcasm until I got to the end.

Obviously, you're an internalized misogynist. The only cure is death.

Thank god. At least there is a cure. Thank you Patrick.

I actually can't ski anymore, due to the motion sickness I suffer from -- though the FDA-unapproved drug I order from Romania or Thailand that permits me to get across Los Angeles without throwing up may help.

Right now, however, I have a book to finish -- that happily, has yet to finish me. Though it gave it a good try.

PS Shannon, this from you was hilarious: "What would make a space feminine? Entirely pink? Tampons all over?"

Very odd. I used to do the double/triple blacks as a teen but developed a fear of heights in my early twenties and now stick to the long, rolling blue squares and single blacks. I also had an accident that messed up my knee so no longer can do mogels anyways. I never felt "put in my place". My Mom still does mogels and crazy slopes and she's almost 70.

I supposed I could write a paper about how the long widing road trails that have steep cuts in between the hairpin turns are a statement in equality, because your whole party can do the same run, with the hard core skiers do the cuts and the leisurely ones stick to the smooth road? "Zermatt: A Study in Utopian of Gender Equality in Trail Grooming".

I should write this paper. Maybe I can get a grant so I can stay in the Hotel Monte Rosa.

MarkD:
Nobody interjected the fact that it's racist, snow being white?

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Yes, and notice how the perilous trails are called "black", in contrast to the purity of the white snow. This clearly reinforces the myth of the dangerous black male ready to plow through the slow white female.

Notice how you return to the "lodge" at the end of the day, a word rife with connotations of fraternal orders. Clearly skiing is an anti-black patriarchal fraternal order.

Shannon, have you been reading the Gender Critical stuff? They get a little extreme on some issues, but they are liberals who have issues with the Gender stuff.

"Shannon, have you been reading the Gender Critical stuff? They get a little extreme on some issues, but they are liberals who have issues with the Gender stuff."

Pity they'll have such a short life expectancy.

I like the idea of wearing mink trimmed boots and drinking hot chocolate and watching skiers from inside a lodge.

I disagree with the premise. A mogul resembles a female breast. I get very anxious when they don't come in even numbers. :)

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These work for me and I once got sick on HMS Belfast, which is a museum ship moored on the Thames and there was not a wave to be seen.

I too am disgusted by people who see "oppression" everywhere, but it doesn't seem intellectually honest to sneer at this if I have read only the abstract.

Hardly seems intellectually honest to charge me $36 dollars to find out why you claim I am a sexist before even being allowed to defend myself

First of all: As a person who has skiied twice in his life and can just manage an intermediate run when the snow is new and soft, damn, Amy, I'm impressed.

Second: "What gets me is that the liberals have gone all into gender fluidity, but that requires a strict definition of what each gender IS and likes. " That's an excellent point... even as they supposedly champion everyone getting to "choose" their sex, the Left adopts ever-more-strict and conformist definitions about the essential characteristics of the genders. They have to do it that way, of course, because if they didn't, how would they divide people?

Third: Anytime an academic attaches the adjective "critical" to a word relating to knowledge or theory, be prepared for a firehose of bullshit to be aimed at you. Especially if they capitalize it.