The next in-class presentation had to deal with gender and sports. Okay, I'll admit, this isn't something I have really analyzed before in-depth. I'm just not really into sports, which causes the topic to be more boring than others involving gender. And I mean, the only thing I've ever analyzed about gender in sports is like Sports Illustrated magazines, which are just like naked pictures of women which is obviously demeaning. I also know that men are pictures as either total hotties or as strong superheroes, which also doesn't help the patriarchal society in which we live. Other than that, though, I don't really look more into sports (can you tell already that this is going to be a short blog post?).
As I suspected, the group with this topic showed a lot of pictures of "sexy" women and aggressive men, along with mentioning Sports Illustrated as well. Predictable. I mean, there's only so much you can say about the topic, right?
Right?
Well, I must say, the group did bring my attention to some interesting concepts that I never really knew about beforehand, mainly because, well, I don't think about the variety of sports that exist (I stink at analyzing gender after all). The one sport that didn't come to my mind before the class was tennis, specifically women's tennis.
Of course, I know who the Williams sisters are. In fact, when I was younger, I used to look up to them as practically superheroes, for they had all of the characteristics men were supposed to have, but were women, giving the world a big F-you, which was amazing to me. I didn't realize, however, how much they get ridiculed for something as simple as how they look/are built, even still today. Yes, they have huge muscles, but what's the need for calling them manly or ugly? Why is it okay for a man but not a woman? Annoying.
And now for the most disturbing part I learned from the discussion also about women's tennis: they now measure.....women's.......GRUNTS? EXCUSE ME? They didn't go into much detail about it, because there were other questions, but that shocked me SO MUCH. Not only this, but people criticize one of the Williams sisters (I can't for the life of me remember which one....sorry) for having such a loud grunt and that it's not fair to the competitor because it might "scare" them. That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, honestly. Like, what? I don't even have anything else to say about this anymore. I mean, what is there to say? I think it's absolutely ludicrous.
Oh well. That's enough about this. I learned a lot and loved it, but just talking about it is making me break a sweat. I'd rather go play a sport now.
As I suspected, the group with this topic showed a lot of pictures of "sexy" women and aggressive men, along with mentioning Sports Illustrated as well. Predictable. I mean, there's only so much you can say about the topic, right?
Right?
Well, I must say, the group did bring my attention to some interesting concepts that I never really knew about beforehand, mainly because, well, I don't think about the variety of sports that exist (I stink at analyzing gender after all). The one sport that didn't come to my mind before the class was tennis, specifically women's tennis.
Of course, I know who the Williams sisters are. In fact, when I was younger, I used to look up to them as practically superheroes, for they had all of the characteristics men were supposed to have, but were women, giving the world a big F-you, which was amazing to me. I didn't realize, however, how much they get ridiculed for something as simple as how they look/are built, even still today. Yes, they have huge muscles, but what's the need for calling them manly or ugly? Why is it okay for a man but not a woman? Annoying.
And now for the most disturbing part I learned from the discussion also about women's tennis: they now measure.....women's.......GRUNTS? EXCUSE ME? They didn't go into much detail about it, because there were other questions, but that shocked me SO MUCH. Not only this, but people criticize one of the Williams sisters (I can't for the life of me remember which one....sorry) for having such a loud grunt and that it's not fair to the competitor because it might "scare" them. That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, honestly. Like, what? I don't even have anything else to say about this anymore. I mean, what is there to say? I think it's absolutely ludicrous.
Oh well. That's enough about this. I learned a lot and loved it, but just talking about it is making me break a sweat. I'd rather go play a sport now.
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