A bit of a follow-on to the Sokolove/ACL furor from the Title IX blog:

The recent spate of studies and articles on injury rates--most of which focus on ACL tears--in female athletes could be part of a trend of inferiorizing the female body, which of course has ramifications for women's sports and female athletes and future female athletes. Maybe I am sounding the alarm a little early here, but this article in Science News that is reporting on a study of amenorrhea [the absence of menstruation] in young (teenage or early 20s) female athletes makes me nervous,

Read why here.