“…Given the unrealistic aesthetic ideals that girls have to compare themselves with (Daniels, 2012; King, 2007) young female athletes’ self-esteem is especially vulnerable. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by the fact that masculinity is often demonstrated in sporting contexts through the expression of “sexist attitudes, objectifying women in a way consonant with rape culture” and the characterization by male athletes of “their opponents as weak and feminine” (Curry, 1991, p. 119; see also Wenner & Jackson, in Treagus et al, 2011). It is notable that while a few research participants referred to female coaches engaging in harsh appraisal of female athletes’ bodies, all perpetrators of sexual harassment identified by research participants were male.…”