Female Athletes: A Gender Analysis

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This video shows many examples of gender roles, and how female athletes are effected by the social stigma that is associated with being a female player . what Cheryl cocky said resented with me when he said that most of the time they question a female athlete’s sexuality but not men is just sexists and that they must be portrayed in a sexualizes way or not make money is just sad. when men athletes don’t have to go all through that to get an endorsement. what they do in their private life shouldn’t need to be a subject at all just how good they play. and this is true I had a female cousin that played basketball from high school through college and a lot of our family member would ask her all the time about her sexual orientation and it made

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