Females In Sports

The video today, Not Just a Game, opened my eyes to various situations in Sports where females are clearly treated unequally. The obvious examples like the ones in class such as the woman who secretly entered the Boston marathon and the female tennis player who made it a point in to prove how tough women could be in sports wither her amazing career. I also think that in so many ways we have come so far but we are still stuck in the past in so many ways. In today’s culture, women are widely welcomed into all walks of sports but in many cases under a different standard. Today if girls play basketball, hockey, softball, and various other sports in many situations they are considered to be “dykes” or lesbians just because of the masculinity of the sport. Who started this crazy ideology? Why are some of the sports only considered to be men sports or if you are a female you obviously are not feminine and chances are you like other women? It is mentalities like this that keep our world from progressing forward. However the sports that are openly accepted society are sports that emphasize the female body for a straight man to be “entertained.” The sports that reasonably cover a female and are more contact/strenuous sports, for the most part society is not interested in and is typically made a mockery of. I hope if I ever have a daughter she is encouraged by society to choose to play whatever sport she pleases and it celebrated for her talents.