The article, “Boys will be Boys and Girls will not” written by Mariah Burton Nelson (2017), a former professional athlete, discusses the gender stereotypes and expectations when it comes to females playing sports. Nelson argues that though many people claim that biological factors play a large role as to why “woman are not as good as men” when it comes to sports, that is not the case. Nelson claims that female performance in athletics has much more to do with how the athletes were trained and their amount of experience. The article she wrote did a good job of conveying the inequalities between male and female athletes. Prior to reading this paper, I had not thought too much about females in sports, but Nelson did a very good job at describing how gender still impacts the world of sports to this day. One limitation Nelson faces is that she only describes her experiences. If given the chance, she should have discussed other female athlete’s experiences. The central point that Nelson conveys throughout the article is that men
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Carr (2017), the author of “Skateboarding in Dude Space: The Roles of Space and Sport in Constructing Gender among Adult Skateboarders” conducted interviews with several women at skate parks to try and understand why there are predominately only cisgender, white, males who skate. His interviews uncovered that the reason that women were not skating was due to the fact that there is no safe space for women to practice their skating skills. When asked, the women claimed that just walking into a male dominated skate park was intimidating enough without anyone even saying anything to them. Nelson mentioned the attitudes of fans carrying on the sexiest ideals that only a man could do one sport well, but Carr noted a female skater who had a small following of about four to six girls who were there to cheer her on. It is because of stories like Carr’s and Nelson speaking out that the world of sports is slowly becoming less gender
Carr (2017), the author of “Skateboarding in Dude Space: The Roles of Space and Sport in Constructing Gender among Adult Skateboarders” conducted interviews with several women at skate parks to try and understand why there are predominately only cisgender, white, males who skate. His interviews uncovered that the reason that women were not skating was due to the fact that there is no safe space for women to practice their skating skills. When asked, the women claimed that just walking into a male dominated skate park was intimidating enough without anyone even saying anything to them. Nelson mentioned the attitudes of fans carrying on the sexiest ideals that only a man could do one sport well, but Carr noted a female skater who had a small following of about four to six girls who were there to cheer her on. It is because of stories like Carr’s and Nelson speaking out that the world of sports is slowly becoming less gender