An essential message to take from When Billie Beat Bobby, a 2001 comedy drama film, is to not let anybody define you. This film focuses on the historic 1973 “Battle of the Sexes”, although relatively cheesily, and the struggles that Billie Jean King--the protagonist--undergoes as a young child and even when she is and adult and challenged by the “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs, the antagonist.
This message is asserted by Billie Jean King herself by her quote “Don’t let anybody define you. You define yourself.” It is made important because if you let others define you, you won’t be able to make important progress that defines your true capabilities. In fact, I say it is how Billie beat Bobby.
For me, it came to no surprise the way she …show more content…
The first is in which the total dispersity of women throughout all career fields is lacking and there are still some glass ceilings to break for both first world countries and third world countries which does not necessarily need the help of feminism rather than just the breakthrough of women participating themselves. For example, there are no top female chief executives or female railroad constructors.
The second is in which women of third world countries still do not have the rights of those of their female counterparts in first world countries. A prime example would be Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive and under Sharia law they only count as half a witness and need a second female in case the first “forgets”. Aside from Sharia law, many religions promote the treatment of women as property and there are ridiculous measures to keep women “pure” for her husband and if she is not pure she will be killed.
The problem that I wanted to confront is where women have reached equality on the surface and have been able to vote and choose their own occupation, there are not many women who are voting. In my view, it seems that women feel uncomfortable exercising their right to vote or feel as if they are not informed enough which plays a role in the lack of education women
This message is asserted by Billie Jean King herself by her quote “Don’t let anybody define you. You define yourself.” It is made important because if you let others define you, you won’t be able to make important progress that defines your true capabilities. In fact, I say it is how Billie beat Bobby.
For me, it came to no surprise the way she …show more content…
The first is in which the total dispersity of women throughout all career fields is lacking and there are still some glass ceilings to break for both first world countries and third world countries which does not necessarily need the help of feminism rather than just the breakthrough of women participating themselves. For example, there are no top female chief executives or female railroad constructors.
The second is in which women of third world countries still do not have the rights of those of their female counterparts in first world countries. A prime example would be Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive and under Sharia law they only count as half a witness and need a second female in case the first “forgets”. Aside from Sharia law, many religions promote the treatment of women as property and there are ridiculous measures to keep women “pure” for her husband and if she is not pure she will be killed.
The problem that I wanted to confront is where women have reached equality on the surface and have been able to vote and choose their own occupation, there are not many women who are voting. In my view, it seems that women feel uncomfortable exercising their right to vote or feel as if they are not informed enough which plays a role in the lack of education women