Many of the appalling injustices of sexism in America are not always against women. Several are also in opposition to men in the form of reverse sexism. One example includes how multiple girls are allowed to participate in boy’s football while boys are not allowed to play girl’s sports. Various reasons might cause this from saying that boys are too aggressive in sports, that boys are usually bigger and stronger than girls at this stage, or it also might be that schools view boys as athletically superior to girls which has no place in America. The saying “boys will be boys” also equates to sports. Claiming that girls can join boy’s football teams whilst also claiming that boys are too aggressive to play in girl’s sports happens to be utter
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A study by the US National Library of Medicine showed that women were only 52 percent and 66 percent as strong as men in the upper and lower body regions, respectively. The studies included the size and activation of voluntary strength of the elbows and knees which showed that men had almost twice as much muscle in their upper bodies. Of course, muscles almost always correlates to strength but muscles not used diminish and die. This last statement does not mean to say that women cannot be as strong as men but usually men carry the advantage of containing larger fibers in their bodies. Skeptics will still argue that strength should not be a determining factor in sports but this does not hold true. Strength remains a huge factor in sports today where many mottos for achieving success include bigger, faster, …show more content…
I do not think that one gender happens to be more skilled or athletic than the other but that the determining factor rests on how much time and effort transpires. I think that if schools base their judgement on not letting people of the opposite gender play sports based on the notion that they are automatically better they should not be allowed to make those decisions. They should base their standing on the fact that it happens to be labeled boys and girls sports for a reason because of the different skills needed from the certain genders. A large amount of excellent gymnasts are females because of the extreme flexibility and technique needed to thrive. Some might say that certain people are equipped to play with the opposite sex and this might be true but I feel pretty strongly that teams should not be intramural in competitive play because of the fact that sometimes groups of people need their own activities without them being infringed upon. Many boys on my eighth grade football team were highly opposed to having females on the team since they felt that they had their sport and the girls had
A study by the US National Library of Medicine showed that women were only 52 percent and 66 percent as strong as men in the upper and lower body regions, respectively. The studies included the size and activation of voluntary strength of the elbows and knees which showed that men had almost twice as much muscle in their upper bodies. Of course, muscles almost always correlates to strength but muscles not used diminish and die. This last statement does not mean to say that women cannot be as strong as men but usually men carry the advantage of containing larger fibers in their bodies. Skeptics will still argue that strength should not be a determining factor in sports but this does not hold true. Strength remains a huge factor in sports today where many mottos for achieving success include bigger, faster, …show more content…
I do not think that one gender happens to be more skilled or athletic than the other but that the determining factor rests on how much time and effort transpires. I think that if schools base their judgement on not letting people of the opposite gender play sports based on the notion that they are automatically better they should not be allowed to make those decisions. They should base their standing on the fact that it happens to be labeled boys and girls sports for a reason because of the different skills needed from the certain genders. A large amount of excellent gymnasts are females because of the extreme flexibility and technique needed to thrive. Some might say that certain people are equipped to play with the opposite sex and this might be true but I feel pretty strongly that teams should not be intramural in competitive play because of the fact that sometimes groups of people need their own activities without them being infringed upon. Many boys on my eighth grade football team were highly opposed to having females on the team since they felt that they had their sport and the girls had