You can fall victim to injustice without even knowing it. Logistically, baseball and softball are different sports, although seemingly similar. Confusing them as the same sport seems innocent enough, until you truly begin to understand the differences and why they exist. Baseball is for boys and softball is for girls, this is accepted as fact to a large portion of the American population. The girls’ sport is baseball, but softer. Softball was meant to provide an easier and less complicated alternative to baseball. The difference between a baseball and softball is three inches (Rules of Sport). Those three inches created a legacy of oppression.
If the heroines in Ring’s book were treated fairly, surely such a book would not exist. Men, significantly …show more content…
A big jump for such a small school made headlines and word quickly traveled. Alternative forms of sports have been present from the beginning. Ideally, they were to make sports separate but equal. Small schools lacking enough students participate in 11-man football could compete with schools in the same situation. It gave the athletes a chance to play, when they might not have. A similar mindset was likely used when creating the women’s’ versions of sports. After receiving pressure from female athletes, the powers at be decided to create sports just for them. Sports safer, softer, and properly lady-like. Sports unlikely to complicate impregnation. When gender is not involved, alternative versions of sports are acceptable. Eight-man football is a great alternative for athletes to still participate in football without having to move schools or skip out on the opportunity. Alternative versions of sports are not acceptable when watered down to create seemingly appropriate games for females and …show more content…
Darity (2016) agrees, “Typically, men are much stronger and faster than women at this stage of development.” Women are taught to believe this as truth; hard evidence they are inadequate and unable to play with the boys. Darity (2016) stated she first felt discrimination in elementary school when the principal told her they were forbidden to play tackle football with the boys for fear of injury, but later felt redeemed when she participated in high school basketball where they practiced with the boys’
If the heroines in Ring’s book were treated fairly, surely such a book would not exist. Men, significantly …show more content…
A big jump for such a small school made headlines and word quickly traveled. Alternative forms of sports have been present from the beginning. Ideally, they were to make sports separate but equal. Small schools lacking enough students participate in 11-man football could compete with schools in the same situation. It gave the athletes a chance to play, when they might not have. A similar mindset was likely used when creating the women’s’ versions of sports. After receiving pressure from female athletes, the powers at be decided to create sports just for them. Sports safer, softer, and properly lady-like. Sports unlikely to complicate impregnation. When gender is not involved, alternative versions of sports are acceptable. Eight-man football is a great alternative for athletes to still participate in football without having to move schools or skip out on the opportunity. Alternative versions of sports are not acceptable when watered down to create seemingly appropriate games for females and …show more content…
Darity (2016) agrees, “Typically, men are much stronger and faster than women at this stage of development.” Women are taught to believe this as truth; hard evidence they are inadequate and unable to play with the boys. Darity (2016) stated she first felt discrimination in elementary school when the principal told her they were forbidden to play tackle football with the boys for fear of injury, but later felt redeemed when she participated in high school basketball where they practiced with the boys’