Dodgeball And Gender Stereotypes

There has always been a stigma between boys and girls, between their love of the ball game. have you ever seen a professional baseball player try to hit off an Olympian softball pitcher it's crazy how similar the sport is, but crazy different the pitching styles are.

Stereotype- a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Stereotypes show up everywhere, and the stories The Outsiders, a realistic fiction novel by S.E. Hinton, and the short story “The Athletic Snob” by Sam Barnes are no exceptions. In The Outsiders, the town Ponyboy Curtis lives in is divided in two: the rich, wild Socials, or Socs, and the quiet, tough Greasers. Throughout the course of the novel, Ponyboy, his brothers, and his friends start to realize that not all Socs and Greasers fit into people's ideas of who they are. The main character of “The Athletic Snob”, Joe Ricardo, also encounters false stereotypes when he meets an overweight boy named Piggy who doesn't play sports at

When you type in Female Athletes into a popular search engine like Google, the top hits are links that redirect to articles titled, “The Top 50 Hottest Athletes of 2016," “Unlimited List of Hottest Female Athletes In The World. In contrast, when you do the same for a Male Athlete you find articles about the “Best Male Athlete ESPY Award” and ‘Most Fit Male Athlete in Sports”. We see such a stark difference, even though they perform the same tasks. At an early age, parents tend to encourage the male child to participate in sports whereas they encourage the female child to join a dance or arts and crafts class instead. “You throw like a girl” is an expression that is often used, equating athleticism to masculinity rather than femininity (Hively

Girls are often times not always pushed to their full potential, if they worked with boys and trained with boys their standards would be set a little higher to achieve more. With having higher physical expectations girls would easily get stronger and the risk of injuries and accidents could lessen. "Though girls tend to be smaller and less muscular than boys, there is no evidence that they are more prone to injury than the boys playing on their teams" (Satterfield). This shows that women do not have a higher tendency to get in an accident than boys do. Mental ability is also just as important as physical ability in sports.

Throughout many years there has been a great change of gender roles of men and women in our society, and especially in the world of sports. Over the last couple years female athletes have really strived to gaining equal representation and media coverage as much as the male athletes do. Female athletes are also starting to participate in more male dominated sports such as, MMA, hockey and even golf. These few sports have been perceived as “manly sports” which usually makes women feel that they shouldn't participate because they're not masculine enough. Even though there are many female athletes who feel discouraged to playing “manly sports” there are also plenty of female athletes who are trying to show younger generations that it's okay to participate and compete in sports that aren't necessarily “feminine sports”. The way that gender roles have been affecting sports for a long time are through behaviors, stereotypes and the perception of male and female athletes.

From the time I was young, the other children who surrounded me were all boys. I had two brothers and four cousins who were males. Due to the fact that our family was very close, we spent a lot of time together. More weekends than I can remember were spent at my grandmother’s house as a family. As a result of my surroundings, I was not into the typical “girl” things. Some things that would be seen as appropriate for girls my age were dolls, makeup, and tea parties, however, I was more into sports. Football was one sport in particular, that I engaged in because of the boys in my family. Many might agree that football is all for the boys, but I was about to challenge that gender stereotype.

Turn on a sports channel, odds are it is a male sport or the talking of men in sports playing. The odds that this is true is because according to the Washington Post, “in 2014, ‘SportsCenter’ dedicated just two percent of its highlight program to women’s sports” (Talbi). That would mean that they could go nearly an entire show and only mention women once. Women compared to men in their image of their respective sports is incredibly less. Women are shown as more of an attractive side while men are shown as more heroic or athletic. Studies have been taken showing how unfair women are shown in sports compared to men. How does the attractiveness and athleticism of women’s sports play a role in their sponsorships and media portrayal? Women’s attractiveness

With being involved in several sports at home it was a big interest to me to learn and be around Australian sports. Though the States and here have some popular sports in common, Australia has a few that aren’t common back in the states like Rugby, Cricket, and AFL, which are very popular sports. Sports might seem like an easy topic but underneath there are several things that cause controversy, like national identity, sexism, and racism. When someone asks what demographics make you think of Australia you may hear many say beaches, tan surfers, and kangaroos.

For thousands of years, established gender roles have been a part of our society. Women are commonly known as sensitive, emotional, or passive. On the contrary, men are described as rational, competitive, independent, or aggressive. Believing women are more emotional than men is stereotyping. However, the stereotype is not entirely untrue. Development of gender roles is often conditioned more by environmental or cultural factors than by hereditary or biological factors. The development of gender roles between men and women involves the inference of peer community of each gender, the communication style of male and female and the intimacy or connection level of men and women.

On Sunday, I listened to ESPN Radio on the Internet. The host was Max Bretos, who has been working as a studio anchor for ESPN since 2010. He is the premier voice for soccer on ESPN and before joining ESPN, he worked for the Fox Soccer Channel. The show started with some updates about college basketball games and baseball scores. Also, I learned that Lebron James missed a game because his coach decided to give him the night off. A major topic of discussion was Steph Curry. As a Curry fan myself, it was amusing to hear the host talking about he dropped 46 points the other night, including a buzzer beater three-pointer. Apparently, players from other teams in the NBA are tweeting about how spectacular Curry has been playing. There was a call-in section of the show for people to state their opinions about

I have always been fascinated by sports especially basketball and football, so I am one of those people that almost know so much that it is weird. Now, the NBA is a league dominated by men in every aspect. I started to watch the NBA around the age of 12, and through all my years of watching the game I became accustomed to only seeing men in the NBA. It has been like this until, Becky Hammon was brought upon the Spurs’ coaching staff on Aug 5, 2014; Becky will be the first female to be full-time paid assistant on a coaching staff. Becky will be the second female to be brought on coaching staff, first was Lisa Boyer (volunteer assistant) with the Cavilers from 2001-02.As I read through the articles to gain more information about Becky I realized; there was hype around Becky for becoming a trailblazer for women in male sports.

I guess when girls get aggressive, it's more personal than with boys. In our games the girls on the other teams used to go after our best players. My friend Jenny was one of the best players on our team. She used to get hit on the head at least three times each game—on purpose. The competition was less about the game and more about the individuals. The other team always did it when the referees weren't watching, so they wouldn't get penalties or get kicked out of the game. The girls did it because they wanted to hurt her. If she got hurt, she couldn't play, and she was our best player. I think they also did it because they were jealous of her. She was so good, and they weren't as good as she was.” Playing sports can bring out aggression. Most of this effect is psychological. The experience of rough-and-tumble sports models and reinforces physically aggressive behavior, such as crashing into

Throughout the 1920’s, before Women’s Suffrage, women were viewed as inferior, as well as subordinate to males because of many years of patriarchal dominance. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, women are seen as lesser by the male characters, yet show a great sense of power and domination over the actions and storyline. The major plotline of Gatsby’s love for Daisy and the American Dream circulates around the mere factor of the power women have over men. Fitzgerald’s portrayal of women parallels with the 1920’s societal reflections on how men are viewed as dominant, whereas women are treated as second-class citizens. Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are portrayed poorly through their insouciant view on the world, objectification by their male counterparts and their narcissism, but defy the stereotypes of the 1920’s.

Maintaining gender stereotype messages as well as the lack of knowledge concerning the effects of popular culture is a difficult approach of trying to understand gender identities especially to children's. Therefore, it is important for children's educators to understand the challenges and effects of popular cultures to help them improve their conception about gender identities. This understanding will also ensure appropriate and efficient learning resource usage in incorporating the popular culture phenomenon. The resources to be used should encourage exploration and acknowledgement of various gender identities. Example, in the environment, can be recommended that other colours be used instead only the blue for boys and pink for a girl.

Some people think that video games are harmless, but some researchers would disagree. Melinda Burgess et al. writes in “Playing with Prejudice: The Prevalence and Consequences of Racial Stereotypes in Video Games,” that women are gender stereotyped and treated as sexual objects in video games today, which affects how male video gamers and society treat women. There are many ways video games use women to attract video gamers, sexuality being a big one. I will argue that Burgess’ claim is true because often male video gamers who play sexually-oriented video games are rewarded for objectifying women and have been shown to treat women as objects and harass them in real life.