How come people can't overcome gender, but are able to overcome social class, power, race, or ethnicity? During my softball class, women always experienced sexism and we did not have an opinion until the end of the semester. For example, if a male was running the drills for the class, they usually decided to separate the females when it was time to pick teams for a game. After separating the females, they assigned us to a team based on our skill levels. Obviously us females did not stay quiet about the situation but it was pointless to argue with them because we never came to solutions and was wasting playing time instead. At the beginning of the semester we were offended because of the sexism that was occurring and no solutions was happening. As time went by, the guys realized that we were gaining skills and were looking good out in the field. We longer allowed them to pick teams for us, or even tells us what position we had to play.
Jannet Negrete
KIN 332i T/H 12:30-1:45
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Unfortunately, these are ideologies that have been passed down from one generation to the next and it looks like they're slowly breaking away but I agree, there's a long way to go in terms of gender equality in sports.
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