After reading for several weeks about the possible cancellation of the NBA season, I wanted to learn a little more about the history of basketball. My research began with learning that basketball was invented by James Naismith as an adaptation to be able to play a sport indoor during the winter season. As I continued reading, I realized I didn't know much history of women who played basketball. I had now became interested in learning a little more about the history of women playing basketball. Considering that I played basketball many years, I never realized how little I knew. In the 1890's the game of basketball was adapted by Senda Barenson. The game had been adapted by breaking it up into 3 sections and having 6 women play on the court at a time. The modification of rules for the game of basketball were made as an attempt to make the game for easier for women to play. Women had been stereotyped because of their gender. Men didn't want women to participate in sports. They believed women to weak, playing sports would damage their reproductive organs and would be classified to have manly features if they excelled in the sport. I think it's interesting to see how closed minded the men were, to find excuses to not allow women to participate in sports. The men only looked for excuses to keep their wives/daughters at home safe from harming themselves. Even though women may excel in sports today, we face the similar stereotypes. We now know that participating in sports will not hurt our reproductive organs but we can be labeled as a man because of our high level of skill. Society wants to keep women inferior to men by finding ways to limiting their level of achievement. Also as an attempt to insult men, others may tell men that they throw, kick, swing like a girl. This statement undermines the abilities of females to perform well in sports. Overall even though times have changed some ideologies remain the same.
Maritza L.
Kin 332i
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