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Mr. America competition is
a bodybuilding contest and
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geant — gender roles at work. Men
pd women are brought into the world
ith a particular set of expectations de
termined by little more than the God-
given equipment between their legs.
iese roles impact much of what peo
ple do, and nowhere are gender roles
ire present than in the gym.
With that fact in mind, the Student
ecreation Center staff is making an ef
fort to help women look past gender
roles and concentrate on fitness with
the "Women on Weights" seminar. The
seminar aims to show women how to
se free weights and debunk some of
the myths surrounding free weights.
DeAun Woosley, fitness director at
the Student Rec, said women are often
intimidated by the "testosterone zone"
that surrounds the free weight area at
the Rec Center.
"We are trying to aquaint women
with the free weight area," she said.
"Normally, women just do the ma
chines; free weights are usually associ
ated with the really serious lifters, who
are usually men."
Woosley said women generally
want to be strong and defined, but not
bulky. However, muscle mass is neces
sary for definition because the more
muscle mass a person has, the more
calories he or she burns and the more
defined his or her muscles can become.
The Women on Weights program will
give women a chance to learn to use
free weights, which are particularly
useful for gaining size.
Since most women have not had con
tact with free weights before, Woosley
said, the seminar will be very basic.
"A lot of women do not know how
to put plates on or what posture they
should use, so we will try to teach
them how to do the basics safely. We
will have 15 personal trainers at the
seminar, so we will be able to work
with people one on one."
Tom Kennedy, personal training co
ordinator for the Rec Center, said the
seminar will likely be set up in stations
— trainers will teach their specialties
to participants one at a time. Kennedy
said this program is necessary because
women need to learn to use free
weights safely. However, safety is not
the only reason for the seminar.
"There is definitely a gender barri
er when it comes to free weights,"
Kennedy said. "We want to show
women that there is more to the Rec
Center than the machines. There is
something on the other side of that
brick wall that they can use."
Kennedy said women avoid certain
machines or exercises because even ex
ercises can have gender identies.
"Certain machines are associated
with femininity. You will never see a
man squeezing his thighs together, but
the bench pressis a big testosterone ex
ercise. It is just that most of the male-
associated exercises are done with free
weights. Women want to avoid that
bodybuilder look, which is a free
weight association,"she said.
Barbara Finlay, director of the
women's studies program at Texas
A&M, said women have traditionally
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some activi
ties because of the
gender association that
goes along with them, but the
current generation of women is
eliminating those old barriers.
"Younger women have not been
brought up in a world where they were
taught they could not do certain
things," Finlay said. "So women are
exploring things they have never ex
plored and doing things they have
never done in the past."
Finlay said it is not surprising that
free weight training is being opened to
women as society as a whole changes
its views on gender roles.
"Women are more independent
and are becoming a much more pow
erful group economically on their
own," she said. "For example, today,
ad agencies target women specifically.
Ten or 15 years ago they would not
have thought of it."
With such liberation, it is only a
matter of time until the entire A&M
campus is covered with Amazons.
Story by Jason BennyhofF and Illustration by Ruben Deluna
You are Worthless
Oswald T. Pratt and Scott Dikkers
Andrews McMeel Publishing
'You R re
Vi'orthless
RPflflIMlNIS’
601 Luther Street W. ♦ College Station, Texas ♦ 979
You are Worthless is a self-help book
for those who think
self-help books are
ridiculous. Co
written by "Dr."
Scott Dikkers, Edi-
tor-in-chief of The
Onion, You are
Worthless follows in
the newspaper's
footsteps of off-col
or and sometimes malicious humor.
In its send-up of self-help books
and those who read them. You are
Worthless pokes fun at the reader's
fragile self-esteem and comes through
with the "Depressing Nuggets of Wis
dom Sure to Ruin Your Day" promised
in the book's subtitle. Quips like "To
morrow is going to be even worse than
today" and "You will die lonely" pull
no punches in their assault on the read-
er's soft spots.
You are Worthless takes aim at easy
targets like depression and lonel iness,
and, more often than not, scores a di
rect hit. The more than 200 pages of
painful tidbits are bitterly funny in
their mockery of not only sadness, but
love, marriage, pets and work. Read
ers will find themselves feeling guilty
about laughing at subject matter not
normally regarded as open for humor.
For example, the chapter entitled "The
Nightmare That is Love" is full of
memorable quick jabs like: "You have
nothing to offer a potential mate,"
"You are not very good in bed," and
"Screaming and yelling will make you
feel better, especially if you direct your
anger at someone you care about."
Obviously, You are Worthless is not a
humor book for everybody. For read
ers who are still haunted at night by vi
sions of the diyorce or
Mom's suicide, the self-help
farce will probably hit too
close to home and should be
avoided. But for those who
enjoy bitingly sarcastic wit
on par with "The Simpsons"
and The Onion, You are
Worthless is a seemingly endless string
of guilty laughs. (Grade: A)
— Eric Dickens
The Man Who Loved Only
Numbers
Paul Hoffman
Hyperion Publishing
A singularly devoted mathematician
who revolutionized number theory but
could not learn to tie his own shoes until
age 11, Paul Erdos often toed the line be
tween idiot savant and weirdo genius.
Erdos, whose epitaph read, "Finally I am
becoming stupider no more," showed no
interest in any non-mathematic subject
See Numbers on Page 4.
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Passable reading
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