Sexism Skating on Thin Ice
Jarrah Hodge
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Posted 03.26.2012
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Canada
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Daisuke Takahashi,
Mary Louise Adams,
Figure Skating,
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Queens University,
Patrick Chan,
Johnny Weir,
Effeminate,
Elvis Stojko,
Canada News
The World Championships of figure skating start on Wednesday, but figure skating's gender roles are running far behind the times. Women skaters were forced to wear skirts in competition until recently, and the women's long program is thirty seconds shorter than the men's, which has real implications in terms of the scoring.
