Oppression Of Sexism In Sports

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This chapter on invisibility gave me a bigger insight of oppression and what is means to give unjust treatment to someone. This chapter mainly described the oppression of sexism and the impact on the gender of being a female. One of the ways I personally have ever felt oppressed was playing sports in high school. Female sports are shown to not be as popular or given the same opportunities as male sports do. My high school was also the jays for our mascot and one of the common names female sports were given was the “lady jays”. I remember my volleyball coach who was a male, always hated when he heard “go lady jays”. He thought that was very sexist to us girls. However, my teammates and I never really put that into consideration and never associated

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