Sport & Society Digital Journals: Old Fashion Discrimination in Today's Society?

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Old Fashion Discrimination in Today's Society?

High school and college sports still need to mature in their evolution towards equality. We've gone passed the race of a person, but not the sex. Earlier this week was a perfect example of how this is so true. I was deciding the drills and activities of the softball class and after the drills were over and with no class Wednesday I decided to have a game day. Since we were already split up in four equal teams for drills I decided the easiest way to start the game as quickly as possible was to combine team one and team two to face team three and team four. No one had a problem with this until someone pointed out that team two, originally team 3 and four, had all the girls in the class. It wasn't until I said out loud, “what does the sex of the student have to do with anything, if after one inning the skill level is off balance we will readjust.” Following that statement everyone agreed and started to play. The teams were pretty much equal with team two leading the way the majority of the time and team one stealing the win in the last inning.

Does the sex matter on a sports team or is it an old fashioned way to separate us as a society like race used to be?

Shane Hall (TTH 930-1045)

1 comment:

Kerrie Kauer said...: Growing up I played on coed teams and sex did not matter on the team. Even though the team was more heavily populated with males than females it did not affect my playing time or perception of the game. I actually enjoyed playing on coed teams because I was able to interact with kids that were not only of different sex but race as well. Even though I do not play sports on a league, I still participate in coed sporting events. For instance, in my Kin 263 we will sometimes play a game and the teams are not divided based upon sex, we just get separated into two teams and begin playing. Our teacher asked my class if we preferred playing coed or if we wanted to have four teams and have two girl teams play each other and two boy teams play each other and my classmates and I decided that it was better to not segregate the teams. Overall, I think that sex does not matter in sports.

Francesca Benfanti T/ Th 2- 3:15; November 25, 2012 at 5:14 PM

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