Comments on: Women Can’t Do Pull Ups? Not So Fast http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/ Keeping You Current Tue, 21 May 2013 19:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Peter S. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Peter S. Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:52:32 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1662 I'd just like to comment that the comparison made with female perceptions of math ability doesn't seem to be a really good fit. For one thing, while there may be some physical inequalities between genders when it comes to pull ups, there are zero inherent inequalities in mathematics. Additionally, I think that the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle messages discouraging girls in math are probably a lot more pervasive, and ultimately more important to get rid of, than ones about upper body strength. I’d just like to comment that the comparison made with female perceptions of math ability doesn’t seem to be a really good fit. For one thing, while there may be some physical inequalities between genders when it comes to pull ups, there are zero inherent inequalities in mathematics. Additionally, I think that the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle messages discouraging girls in math are probably a lot more pervasive, and ultimately more important to get rid of, than ones about upper body strength.

]]> By: Jen http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 Jen Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:26:21 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1594 Thank you SO much for writing this article. This article is inspiring. I am a woman in my mid-thirties who does pullups several times a week. I couldn't do a single pullup 5 years ago, but I practiced pullups - jumping pullups, pullups with a band, negative pullups until I got them. I feel sorry for the woman who wrote the NYT article and the yahoo blogger if they actually believe what they wrote. Thank you SO much for writing this article. This article is inspiring. I am a woman in my mid-thirties who does pullups several times a week. I couldn’t do a single pullup 5 years ago, but I practiced pullups – jumping pullups, pullups with a band, negative pullups until I got them. I feel sorry for the woman who wrote the NYT article and the yahoo blogger if they actually believe what they wrote.

]]> By: lori http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1530 lori Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:03:12 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1530 Thank you, my thoughts exactly when I read that post. I started crossfit 2 years ago and could not even hang from the bar. I did not give up and right about at the 23 month marker, I got my first dead hang pull up EVER!!! I am 47 years old! Now a month later, I can do 3 dead hand pull ups, and completed FRAN rxd.... one pull up at a time! Thank u for setting the record straight! it took 2 years ladies but it will happen, do not give up! Thank you, my thoughts exactly when I read that post. I started crossfit 2 years ago and could not even hang from the bar. I did not give up and right about at the 23 month marker, I got my first dead hang pull up EVER!!! I am 47 years old! Now a month later, I can do 3 dead hand pull ups, and completed FRAN rxd…. one pull up at a time! Thank u for setting the record straight! it took 2 years ladies but it will happen, do not give up!

]]> By: Caroline http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1521 Caroline Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:51:49 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1521 THANK YOU from those of us women who CAN do pull-ups and want other women to join us! THANK YOU from those of us women who CAN do pull-ups and want other women to join us!

]]> By: Revolving Cities http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1520 Revolving Cities Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:01:49 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1520 Here's another good video to add - a woman from Seattle's Xplore CrossFit does a pullup at 9 months pregnant http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150521413607238&set=vb.77636147997&type=2&theater Here’s another good video to add – a woman from Seattle’s Xplore CrossFit does a pullup at 9 months pregnant

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150521413607238&set=vb.77636147997&type=2&theater

]]> By: mari http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 mari Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:34:15 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1518 Brilliant! Women can't do pull ups, what rot! Brilliant!
Women can’t do pull ups, what rot!

]]> By: thejeepindad http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/women-cant-do-pull-ups-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 thejeepindad Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:42:24 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6283#comment-1510 Thank you for your response to that other article. And thank you most of all for providing inspiration, rather than the limits, excuses as described in the other article. Kudos! Thank you for your response to that other article.
And thank you most of all for providing inspiration, rather than the limits, excuses as described in the other article.
Kudos!

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