How Does Racism In Sports Relate To Gender Stereotypes

hen most people think of an NFL broadcast they come up with a somewhat superficial depiction of a bunch of men tackling each other for two hours with a couple commercials sprinkled in the mix. When in actuality, it is much more than that. There is a whole culture that surrounds a sports broadcast, including, but not limited to, social, political, and economic factors. While watching the NFL broadcast of the Houston Texans versus the Dallas Cowboys I noticed some of these factors such as gender roles, race logic, and racism in sport media coverage come into play. As I mentioned earlier, an NFL broadcast is much more complicated than two teams hitting one another over a ball. Perhaps one of the more controversial matters involved during an NFL broadcast relate to gender roles. Some of the more obvious gender roles that I noticed throughout the broadcast were apparent in the commercials. I realized that the majority, if not all of commercials shown during the broadcast appealed to men, as that is the NFL’s target market, and they are playing to the gender role that the average male is watching the …show more content…
Whether it be what the commentators are saying or what is being shown and said in the commercials, there are a great amount of social factors coming into play that go beyond surface level, such as gender roles, race logic, and racism in sport media coverage. Learning more about the sociological aspects of sport have definitely made me a more critical viewer of sport broadcasts, as I am now constantly analyzing what is being said and shown. It is because of this that I now have an entirely different viewpoint on sports as a whole. I once thought that sports were a way to bond people regardless of race, economic status, social standing etc., but now I realize that there are many things that exist in the world of sport that may be tearing us further