Sexism And Sports By Molly Quinton

The second example of a rhetorical technique is Pathos. The author tries to make you feel sorry for her when she describes how embarrassed she is about having her crush over for Christmas dinner and also when she describes the menu that is going to be served for Christmas Eve. “ Dinner threw me deeper into despair. My relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table, dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food.” Amy describes how depressed she was that Robert and his family had to witness the typical Chinese cuisine she and her family normally have.

In the article “I Won, I’m Sorry”, Mariah Burton Nelson has portrayed the images of female athletes in a way as what our society looks at these athletes. Even though female athletes are strong enough to play sport, skillful enough to win other male athletes, and passionate enough to devote themselves to sport, female athletes find it hard to overcome our society’s norms about gender roles. Furthermore, despite the fact that a large number of women have been contributing themselves to sports, only a small number of female athletes are represented in the media coverage since people don’t look at their real talents and skills; however, they look for the femininity in each female athletes such as how they dress in a march, how they show their charming

Molly Quintons essay “Sexism and Sports” writes about the experiences of sexism that occurred because of sports. Quinton writes this essay to stop sexist males from ignoring women because of their gender by using examples such as past experiences. While writing to an audience of sexist males, Quinton explains that women are just as capable of liking sports as men are. Therefore, to illustrate that Quinton uses examples achieve her purpose for writing the essay, there are a few available quotes. For instance, Quinton uses examples such as “the Little League coach whom… questions my pitch count” (Paragraph 5) and “the guy at the gym who asks me to rattle off every team in the AL East when [viewing] my Red Sox hat” (Paragraph 5) are both

One of the many offensive gender stereotype sayings is “You throw like a girl.” Men often do not want to have anything to do with that statement. In James Fallows report he states, “Having been trained (like most American boys) to dread the accusation of doing anything ‘like a girl,’ athletes were said to grow into the assumption that women were valueless, and natural prey” (138). This suggests how women are looked down upon by men and their own society when competing against men in athletics. To reach supporters of feminism and to appeal to pathos, the author uses offensive language toward women, such as “valueless” and “natural prey”. These insulting words may hit the emotions of women. With just the usage of

This analysis shows a changing in the guard of how women’s sports are being covered. The increasing feminism movement in sports with icons such as former MMA UFC fighter Ronda Rousey leading the way in combination with an increasing in feminine issues being covered by the media has meant a change in the way women’s sports are featured. Though gender still has a major influence over the coverage of women’s hockey and a traditional heteronormative gender role is communicated at several points of these pieces, the conversation has moved away from being an exposition on the strangeness of women’s engaging in a men’s sports to becoming a celebration of women in sports. What this encouragement does communicate however is the ability of these women to leave behind stereotypically heteronormative feminine traits and take on the masculine

A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Sports originated in early history as males only, and was often used to see which male was more dominant. In today’s society sports have a different meaning and is played by both genders, but still holds a mentality of superiority. In this essay, I will be arguing the Social Constructs of Masculinity in Sports in the language and the actions used when performing these activities through both genders and how some actions are acceptable for one gender and not for the other. Using Laurel Richardson’s article Gender Stereotyping in the English Language, and X: A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould. The article and story will help distinguish the use of words in our society and how they are incorporated in sport and how the actions of a person that does not fit the social standard faces repercussions for their actions.

The sports world has been a new area where women are recognized. In previous times women’s sports were almost non-existent. In schools many girl teams did not receive adequate funds for uniforms and equipment. Boys sports were much more popular, such as football or basketball. If a girl wanted to play a guy sport she would be labeled as a

Hargreaves, J. (1994). Feminity or ‘masculinity'? Changing images of female's sports. In J. Hargreaves (Ed.), sporting females: critical issues in the history and sociology of women sports. London: Roultledge.

In the well written article, “Women in Sport: Gender Stereotypes in the past and Present” written by Kristin Wilde, Wilde’s central focus is female inequalities, as well as the struggles females face when being traditionally stereotyped. This exceptional article points to the issue that stereotypes can be really hurtful and that female sports are questioned. Women sports can be as intense as male sports. For example, in the near past and present world males are expected to be strong, independent, and athletic, whereas females are expected to be quiet, obedient, and good looking.

All of the films that we watched provided different perspectives on how the image of women is situated in our culture. From the first movie, Dare to Compete, which highlighted the development of women's participation in sports, to Love and Basketball, which fully accepts women's participation in sports, we examined a range of views and opinions on the proper role of women in sports.

The adverse topic of women in sports stems from society's disregard to viewing women as persons. Women were, and in other parts of the world continue to be viewed as property of men and have no significant role in society. Being allowed into the Olympics was a step in the right direction for women across the world, but it was meager attempt equality. Women were still restricted by what events they were allowed to compete in, how they were trained and coached and even limited as to what they could wear. A woman’s femininity played a large role in the way they were perceived by society; weak. Women were seen as incommensurate to men and it was something that has taken us centuries to reverse. Today, women are given the rights we should have

“Women who play men’s sport have constantly to negotiate their status in traditional cultural contexts of men’s power and privilege, and in a general discourse of femininity, patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality” (Craig & Beedie, 2008).

In the last one hundred years women have made tremendous inroads in many facets of life. Of that there can be little doubt. Women may now hold jobs, own property and participate in professional sports. Today women can compete in sports, once a vestige of male domination; there is now room for women in that arena. But even today women in sports are not portrayed in the same light as their male counterparts. To a large degree this is because of today's cultural ideal of women.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” (Luke 4:18-19)

Additionally, this relates to sports as in the mid-nineteenth century when organised sports were first introduced they were created by men for men (Coakley, 2017). These practical activities had developed rules and they created governing bodies that established the ideals of gender ideologies, as sport was viewed as a male territory because women seemed too weak and fragile for competitive and contact based activities, also described by Coakley, 2017. This is an interesting fact as we can see that women were marginalised in the sports world since the early centuries, this allows us to notice the fact that although nowadays women have more rights in sport they are still treated as lesser than men in any situation, and especially within this area. However, although many ideas have been changing overtime, the sports world is still male-dominated (an individual’s performance is associated with manhood, this explains why performance is sometimes described as performing like a man, or holding manly characteristics) , male-identified (men’s values within sports are recognised by the entire community which creates a manhood, hence the reason why