Gender In Sports
Drew Brothers
Mr. Berry
Intro To College Writing
13 October 2014
My audience includes anyone who is involved in sports, the genders of both men and women.
Sports Media and the Stereotyping Between Men and Women The sport industry is nothing less than the pastime of America. Millions of viewers tuned in everyday to receive updates and news on their favorite sports team or even players. Nationwide networks and even local sporting stations broadcast anything from the more popular sports such as football, baseball, and basketball, to the less familiar and far less attractive sports such as volleyball, rugby and even lacrosse. From there, you then see the differences of gender roles and the popularity issues within each and every sport. Gender …show more content…
Kathy Pollitt in “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls” states that, “women often complain about their sons’ passion for sports: the ruined weekends, obnoxious coaches, and macho values” (Pollitt 556). Boys paradoxically have a far greater chance of playing sports and excelling at those due to more opportunities and the focusing on those benefits at very early ages. Why you may ask? Because sports media portrays the sports, that men participate in, to be far more interesting to watch and easier to write about in articles that are published throughout the nation. Boys read about these headlines at early ages and begin to wonder if they can produce a career in the highly popular sports world that we, as Americans, live in to this day. For example, 21.5 million boys played on a sports team between the ages of 6 and 17, compared to only 9.5 million girls playing on an organized sports team …show more content…
Men will always take the dominant role in society and women will always take the caring, loving role but their roles in the sports world can forever unite when sports media interprets them as equal and animate, and women begin to gain further publicity, purpose, and acceptance into the world of sports. Women are underappreciated in sports media and although they show the same abilities as the overrepresented male gender, they continue to gain less and less support. Women, the majority of the American population as a whole, physically can dunk a basketball, crush a homerun to deep center field, throw a 50 yard touchdown to win a playoff football game, or even score the game winning goal to clinch the World Cup victory over a foreign country, so let’s take a moment to finally appreciate the female race and respect them for their abilities and physical
Mr. Berry
Intro To College Writing
13 October 2014
My audience includes anyone who is involved in sports, the genders of both men and women.
Sports Media and the Stereotyping Between Men and Women The sport industry is nothing less than the pastime of America. Millions of viewers tuned in everyday to receive updates and news on their favorite sports team or even players. Nationwide networks and even local sporting stations broadcast anything from the more popular sports such as football, baseball, and basketball, to the less familiar and far less attractive sports such as volleyball, rugby and even lacrosse. From there, you then see the differences of gender roles and the popularity issues within each and every sport. Gender …show more content…
Kathy Pollitt in “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls” states that, “women often complain about their sons’ passion for sports: the ruined weekends, obnoxious coaches, and macho values” (Pollitt 556). Boys paradoxically have a far greater chance of playing sports and excelling at those due to more opportunities and the focusing on those benefits at very early ages. Why you may ask? Because sports media portrays the sports, that men participate in, to be far more interesting to watch and easier to write about in articles that are published throughout the nation. Boys read about these headlines at early ages and begin to wonder if they can produce a career in the highly popular sports world that we, as Americans, live in to this day. For example, 21.5 million boys played on a sports team between the ages of 6 and 17, compared to only 9.5 million girls playing on an organized sports team …show more content…
Men will always take the dominant role in society and women will always take the caring, loving role but their roles in the sports world can forever unite when sports media interprets them as equal and animate, and women begin to gain further publicity, purpose, and acceptance into the world of sports. Women are underappreciated in sports media and although they show the same abilities as the overrepresented male gender, they continue to gain less and less support. Women, the majority of the American population as a whole, physically can dunk a basketball, crush a homerun to deep center field, throw a 50 yard touchdown to win a playoff football game, or even score the game winning goal to clinch the World Cup victory over a foreign country, so let’s take a moment to finally appreciate the female race and respect them for their abilities and physical