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Female boxer on head injuries
Mar. 8th, 2005 01:43 pmLast Friday's guest on the Diane Rehm show was Leah Hager Cohen, who wrote "Without Apology : Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight."
Until she visited downtown Boston's Somerville Boxing Club, the writer regarded boxing with disgust. Her opinion changed after she met four adolescent girls and their trainer. She describes what she learned in the gym about herself, girls who box, and the buried connections between femininity and aggression.
About 40 minutes into the show came the moment of truth.
In an e-mail question from Martin refers to the new rules of dealing with head injuries in high school football and develops the theme along these lines:
- Your guest is not in a position to evaluate herself nor is anyone else, except years later. … I feel so sorry for her because brain damage is so insidious.
Leah Hager Cohen:
- Well, it's interesting to bring up football because one of the things people in the boxing world will say, is, you know, there are many other sports that are dangerous and, yes, it the point of the sport isn't to deliver a blow to the head. But football there are far more head injuries in football among youth than uhm in amateur boxing. Uhm, d ahm sorry, I just lost my train of thought.
Diane Rehm:
- It's all right.
Until she visited downtown Boston's Somerville Boxing Club, the writer regarded boxing with disgust. Her opinion changed after she met four adolescent girls and their trainer. She describes what she learned in the gym about herself, girls who box, and the buried connections between femininity and aggression.
About 40 minutes into the show came the moment of truth.
In an e-mail question from Martin refers to the new rules of dealing with head injuries in high school football and develops the theme along these lines:
- Your guest is not in a position to evaluate herself nor is anyone else, except years later. … I feel so sorry for her because brain damage is so insidious.
Leah Hager Cohen:
- Well, it's interesting to bring up football because one of the things people in the boxing world will say, is, you know, there are many other sports that are dangerous and, yes, it the point of the sport isn't to deliver a blow to the head. But football there are far more head injuries in football among youth than uhm in amateur boxing. Uhm, d ahm sorry, I just lost my train of thought.
Diane Rehm:
- It's all right.
