Gender Bending – JMD Sounds Off Via SurflineHUNTINGTON BEACH, California
Recent events on the international stage have turned professional women’s surfing on its head. Everything from teenage ASP Women’s World Champions to pre-pubescent event winners is seeing the performance level of the fairer sex perpetually shattered. Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), 22, current ASP Women’s World No. 10, tackled the issue in a recent Surfline.com feature that showcased the talents of herself along with fellow ASP Top 17 campaigners Steph Gilmore (AUS), 20, Karina Petroni (USA), 20, Nicola Atherton (AUS), 22, former ASP Women’s World Champ (and new mom) Chelsea Hedges (AUS) and ASP WQS battler Leilani Gryde (HAW). This...is their story...
Do women belong in the kitchen or the barrel? This is my further examination of an issue that has been plaguing the surfing world for a while. You’ll have to excuse my rawness, though, because I’m just a surfer...and a passionate one at that. I’ve been trying to write this article for a while now and I just can’t put it off any longer. Women’s surfing has never been more exciting, nor has there ever been such an exciting time to be a pro surfer chick. You may disagree with me. It just depends, really. Do you really want to test that old line, ’Hell hath no fury like a woman scored’?
