Muscularity and femininity: no longer a contradiction?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Extant research demonstrates that strength and muscularity are associated with masculinity while femininity is associated with frailty and small, lean physiques. Women with sport performance and/or aesthetic goals requiring muscularity often balance their pursuit of muscularity with mitigation strategies (e.g. emphasizing femininity, limiting amount of muscularity) to reduce risks associated with gender non-conformity. However, analysis of interviews with 41 women who powerlift in Australia suggests that the long-established associations between muscularity and masculinity may be wavering. A significant minority of participants articulate that muscularity is compatible with femininity and do not conceptualize their muscular physiques as contrary to their feminine gender expression. This finding presents a departure from previously studied women athletes’ discourses, wherein muscularity was generally considered contrary to femininity, even among those women who embraced muscularity. Using Deleuzian theory, I analyse how gendered norms may be deterritorialized through sporting practice, enabling lines of flight that challenge women’s embodied subordination.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it