Female Sports Website Summary

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Hi Norman. I totally agree with you that Women Sport website is giving an avenue to female athletes’ empowerment. Of course, the website gives readers an overview and objective perspective about female athletes. Through images on the articles in the website, female athletes are depicted in a professional as well as sport spirit manner. And I think that is also the ways that female athletes want to be remembered and discussed about. Like what Mariah Burton Nelson wrote, “So if you want to be a winner and you’re female, you’ll feel pressured to play by special, female rules. Like men, you’ll have to be smart and industrious, but in addition, you’ll have to be “like women”: kind, nurturing, accommodating, nonthreatening, placating, pretty, and

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