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Recently, during our conversation classes the men asked us what we thought of women participating in sports and in particular - weight lifting. The debate revealed that the male part of our group strongly disapproved of that as (not feminine(. Their main argument was that those sportswomen simply don't look like women at all. When we replied that they shouldn't expect them to look like models, we heard that models don't look like women either! Unfortunately, the discussion wasn't planned to deal with femininity and it didn't develop into that direction. Nevertheless, it became an impulse for me. I asked myself many questions, to which I cannot claim that I found answers, but which at least specified my understanding of (femininity(.