I was reading the Amazon.com entry for Colette Dowling's The Frailty Myth and took delight in the "statistically improbable phrases" that appear in the book:
closing the strength gap, frailty myth, endangered bodies, learned weakness, sex testing, female college athletes, incredible shrinking woman, physical equality, gender conditioning, hostile hallways, doll corner, physical competence, sex tests
"Closing the strength gap" is my favorite - wouldn't it be nice? Visualize a world where you could sit an average gal and an average guy down at a table and have them arm wrestle, with 50/50 odds on who would win. It makes me all tingly just thinking about it.
Of course it will never happen and feminist notions of socially-constructed gender are pure fantasy, but it's a fantasy I could roll around in for awhile without complaint.
