Monday, January 28, 2013

What's The Problem Darion Delaney

As you can see, there has been a drastic change in how athletes look from the past to present. Males builds have gone from big to built. Women’s physiques have gone from petite to a much larger frame. With these new bodies, women have pushed sex barriers to the next level and can compete at higher levels. So much that people are beginning to question whether or not females should or should not be able to play with males. In the passage, What’s the Problem, the author tries to get readers to see the bigger picture with women. If you see a good dominant women at a sport, you assume she’s gay for example Brittany Griner and dominant female basketball player who dunks on women at will. Also in the article, the author explains how Title XI hasn’t done enough for women’s sport. It has allowed them to play however sports are still segregated between male and female for example football. How I feel on the situation is that sports should be segregated. Women that are elite at their individual sport no  offence suck against an average male. It was said in class the Serena Williams lost to the 200th male tennis player in the work. We all see Serena as a great however amongst males she less than average. If women played football it a joke. Find me a woman that runs a 4.3 40 yard dash. She would be small and fast but not the same muscle tone as males. Every sport females that have strived have come up short to male numbers. Swimming, track and field, football, basketball, tennis, you name it a male is more dominant. I applaud women at there efforts and strides but its not enough! I would really like feed back to know if people agree or disagree. Maybe I’m blind and I need someone to show me otherwise.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Darion,

    I need to clarify something I mentioned in class about Serena losing to the No. 200 man. That was when she was at the beginning of her career. I'm not sure if she would lose to him today or if she would lose as badly, but I don't think it was an accurate reflection of her ability. She was certainly not No. 1 in the world at the time. I also believe it depends upon the sport. There are some sports where women compete with men, as pointed out in the chapter - e.g., Julie Krone, in horse racing; and there are women who compete against men in shooting events. In swimming, women's times have improved faster than men's over the past 20-30 years. In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became only the fifth person overall and the first woman to swim the English Channel and she did it in a time that was 2 hours better than the best time set by a man. So there are individual cases where women have excelled. I do take offense to your saying that women 'suck' against the average male. But we will discuss this further in class.

    Our conversations have only just begun.

    Dr. Spencer

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  2. Darion,
    I agree with where you are coming from with your post. I also applaud women for the effort they put in to play sports, especially women at the college and pro levels. They have a tough road to travel in sport because they are women and are always being compared to men in sport. Often times women are viewed as inferior to men when it comes to sport. I too view women as inferior in sport, but I do respect them for not allowing the negativity to get to them. Also, when it comes to title IX I am not a big fan of it. I think that when it comes to men and women in sport that it will never be completely fair. I think title IX is a way to try to make things more fair, but in the end women sports are not as popular as men sports and I do not think mens sports should be somewhat held back because of it. This is just how society is.

    -Logan Walker

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