Combining sports and school is my dream. I was raised as that girl with a dad who loves sports and a brother who played every sport out there. By the time I could remember I was throwing around a ball. I was playing with with harbors and cooking sets that they sell but my interest was in active sports. I was playing catch with my dad at the age of 5 and since then I have had an outstanding interest in sports... And more broadly competition. At age 11 the genre difference took control of my life. When I played on an all boys team until age 11, people were confused as to why I could "keep up". Honest to God, I've neve been more confused in my life. I didn't understand why, as a girl, I had to leave a team evacuee I was becoming a pre-pubescent age. As I grow older I get that society wanted us to be separate... But why would we have to separate if I was "keeping up".
In the readings it talked a lot about if all people, men and women, we're trained equally our differences would be so minuscule. For 6 years I was trained on the same pace as "the boys" and was equal and beyond the standards of a competitive athlete. I regularly out-shown boys of my same age it it was insisted that we were separated.
I've been through it all as a collegiate female athlete. I get the lesbian talk, the "you're too good to be a girl", the "why are you stronger than me?!", but at the en of the day no matter how strong I am physically
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ReplyDeleteCombining sports and school is my dream. I was raised as that girl with a dad who loves sports and a brother who played every sport out there. By the time I could remember I was throwing around a ball. I was playing with Barbie’s and cooking sets that they sell but my interest was in active sports. I was playing catch with my dad at the age of 5 and since then I have had an outstanding interest in sports... And more broadly competition. At age 11 the gender difference took control of my life. When I played on an all boys team until age 11, people were confused as to why I could "keep up". Honest to God, I've never been more confused in my life. I didn't understand why, as a girl, I had to leave a team because I was becoming a pre-pubescent age. As I grow older I get that society wanted us to be separate... But why would we have to separate if I was "keeping up"?
In the readings it talked a lot about if all people, men and women, we're trained equally our differences would be so minuscule. For 6 years I was trained on the same pace as "the boys" and was equal and beyond the standards of a competitive athlete. I regularly out-shown boys of my same age and it was insisted that we were separated.
I've been through it all as a collegiate female athlete. I get the lesbian talk, the "you're too good to be a girl", the "why are you stronger than me?!", but at the end of the day, no matter how strong I am physically, why is that over shadowed by who I am sexually? Even my accomplishments can be undermined in comparison to a male, because female athletic accomplishment is challenged. Take for instance Serena Williams. Her sexuality is constantly challenged because of her excelling in tennis. Im sorry, I am confused… Why must a girl be a “manly” athlete when she is a stand out? On the other hand, why when do guys “play like a girl” it’s a insult? Also, I don’t “throw like a girl, I throw like a strong woman athlete, probably harder than the average male. Is the problem that we are in different spheres and still are not equal? I understand women wanting to enter the men's sports worlds but I don't think it's logical. I think it'd be better if we would work on making the spheres more open an equal but not completely different... It's hard to imagine but I would like some different opinions, how do you guys feel?
I agree that we should make the spheres more open and equal but not completely different. I think that we should have the availability to play whatever sports we want to play, even if they are “too rough” for us feeble ladies, I think we should broaden the sphere of the sports we are allowed in.
ReplyDeleteI think that people were shocked at why you could “keep up” is because sports has been for such a long time a man’s game, and women have only recently begun to come into play. I think by redefining what it means to be a woman as we have been trying to do, is what it will take for us to be seen as more than a docile body. And maybe with this redefined image it won’t be shocking that Jane can throw farther than John, but a welcomed competition...but I think that’s still far off.