Amen, Blue Moon.
I really hate it when people pick on the weight of figure skaters, so I will not be going to that forum. So few young skaters are ever going to make regionals or nationals. That's not and shouldn't be the point of figure skating. My rink has a well known male champion who coaches. I've watched him skate, and I swear he has 'super fast twitch' muscles like a sprinter. I really think it takes spring and fast twitch muscles to make it to that level. For the rest, what they learn in skating is going to give them a great education; preparation, failure, success, acceptance of your own limits. There are millions of men who golf, and a few Tiger Woods. That's how skating is.
When I was a kid, I was the skinniest kid in high school. I always weighed my grade; 40 pounds in 4th grade, 50's in 5th grade . . . up to the 10th grade when I stopped any and all weight gain for many years. I was put in a Children's Hospital when I was in the 3rd grade, as I had stopped growing. I was normal, just super skinny. Whatever I wore, literrally hung on me. To put it bluntly, I looked like a skating preying mantis. And, I could eat everything and anything not gain weight. Now, I do watch what I eat. I focus on healthy and foods I like. Now, I have to up my exercise to at least an hour of skating and focus on 1500 calories a day to lose weight. I think we are programmed to be a certain weight, especially if we are already figure skating which burns alot of calories.
Men skating. I absolutely would rather watch male skaters. They JUMP so much higher and farther, I think it would be amazing to fly like them. Wear slacks and a button down shirt, that allows movement, I guess?