... many reasons why girls should not play at a professional level with men. Including that of tradition, fatal injuries, and its not just football that can not be played professionally with a mixed team but its most if not all sports. Physiologically, physically and emotionally males and females ... chest injuries following the impact of a heavy footballer with much momentum. For safety reasons females should stick to female only teams, or touch football only. Imagine going to Wimbeldon to watch Lleyton Hewitt play against Venus Williams. It doesn't work. Men and women don't professionally ...

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... sex. Sabo argues that society teaches males to "take it" that is to deal with what happens, especially pain. Sabo's high school coach said "football is a game of pain and violence!", and Sabo responded many years later in this article with "I should have taken him at his word and never played ... view from the inside out, along with personal experience. Sabo's audience is anyone who cares to listen, however, he would like for all football players and ex-football players to read this and to take something from it and figure out why they are enduring all of the pain. Sabo's thesis or main...

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... to be part of something that he could get recognized, and the only choice for him at the time being was to play something unheard of, football. You see, football was really sparking up in the sixties, but people didn't play for glory, they played for the love of the game. Through all the trials ... more mature, he turn into an athlete instead of a fat guy on the line taking up space. His whole life became fixed on football. A turning point in his football career came when he had to face up head to head with the biggest and meanest guy on the team. To his surprise he ... and I started in...

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... the problem, they have been taking the easy way out and just axing men's minor sports. Adding to this, is the problem of football making compliance with Title IX very difficult and almost impossible. Many feminists and supporters of Title IX are claiming that the closures of men's ... athletes causes the playing field to be tilted, when there is no female athletic program to balance it out. Schools like Miami, who have powerhouse football teams, are forced into cutting back dramatically on men's programs. For example, Miami's track program, where women are given 18 scholarships and men ...

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... guys. Guys just love sports. While at practice, I end up talking about girls with my friends. It was a natural thing to do with my friends at football practice because they are both things that guys love. Sports are in the hearts of every man, any where on the planet. Any activity that has to do ... and ended playing all the way up until I was eighteen. I would always dream, as did many of my friends, that I would grow up to be a professional baseball or football player. It is the male American dream, but so is eating a huge, tasty dinner. That is why I left practice so quickly. I jumpe...

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... men's opportunities in athletics by dropping many men's sports, such as wrestling, men's gymnastics, and men's swimming, some have gone as far as cutting football programs. Since 1991, 20,800 male sports have been eliminated while only 5,800 women's sports have been added. Title IX has now turned into a ... by cutting its championship men's baseball, soccer, and swimming (5). Another big problem with the gender quotas is football, it has an exceptionaly large all-male roster without any female counterpart. It takes up to three or four female teams to offset ... what happens to the march...

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... with the notion that involvement in sports is necessary to portray a masculine image. Woolf describes the importance that is placed on male-related activites by noting that while " football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial"..." (p.74). Men have this masculine importance drilled into their heads from and early age ... . From the baseballs and basketballs embrodered on their baby blankets, to the pressure of highschool football tryouts and the fear of rejection by their peers, men are brought up with the notion that sports are an important pa...

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... be just like them. Also just like in the article, I was dressed in sailor suits and little business suits at a young age, on up to my adolescence where I was given football and baseball uniforms to play in. I even had cowboys and Indians on my wallpaper in my room growing up. From then on I wanted to become a pro ... football player more than anything, not to mention I was encouraged to play because I was the big kid of the family. Dealing with all being a strong young boy then all the sudden ... ...

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... help the Title IX cause? Like the executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation, I believe that schools are continuing to increase their budgets on sports that create revenue, specifically men's football and basketball, leaving much lower budgets for some men's and almost all women's sports. The executive director, Donna Lopiano, notes that smaller schools (Division II & III) are adding male sports ... , yet the Division I schools, who put a lot of pride in their popular teams, are eliminating other sports "Because they're fueling the football monster." This is a backwards step in ...

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... his essay. 'they are often so unself-consciously at ease in the world that other men seek to imitate them.? In the sports industry, for example, certain sports, such as football and major league baseball, are only played by men. Why? Men usually have a reputation to maintain to prove that they are real masculine. It is difficult for the average American ... would think that they aren't being as masculine as they should be and so they strive to do better than that woman. When men first see a man to do a 'macho? football catch, they would yearn to imitate that macho move. On the contrary,...

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... and compete to get to the top honors. It shows masculinity through the competitive drive to want to win and reach the top level. In football, the top honor is winning the super bowl, and every football player uses that as a drive to win and beat competitors to reach this level. This shows that are culture in sports is driven by one ... ...

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... , but the fact that dresses meant girl, weak and fragile, prohibited girls from such activities. I know this as a fact because I remember when I was in grammar school and I used to play football in my uniform, which of course was a skirt. The skirt didn't stop me from playing, I just wore shorts underneath it. I enjoyed running around and playing with the boys, but I also ... didn't matter what we did, there would be a small group of us gossiping and laughing about the boys or each other. The girls would encircle the boys as they played football in the playground watching them act "macho...

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... a part of the target audience on Super Bowl Sunday. The lack of commercials aimed at women is expected because Super Bowl Sunday's main goal is to show the NFLs championship football game. This further supports the point that advertisers use different events, days, and time slots to get the attention of a certain audience. After analyzing these commercials it is clear that ... ...

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... cheerleading the men are important, and are needed. The women who participate with these men respect them, and appreciate them being a part of their groups. If a girl chooses to play football they are called names and harassed (Sexism). Additional Information Title IX has helped women in many different ways. First of all, the definition of sexism is the discrimination against someone ... ...

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... is a person who is in and out of jail for constantly breaking the law. Ricky is the star athlete who is being recruited by the University of Southern California for football. Everyone treats him better and his mother gives the better treatment to him. With the help and support of his dad, Tre has grown into a very smart young man. You ... ...

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... strangers identify the sex of the child. Baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls are dressed in pink. The baby boy may be dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop ... ...

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... situation were to be reversed to a man, nothing would have been said or done. Most of the soap opera commercials advertise feminine products such as, cleaning products and cosmetics. During a football game, commercials advertise masculine products such as beer and truck shows. Television ads not only construct the public as a whole, they know how to target the right audience. Marcelline Barron ... ...

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... strangers identify the sex of the child. Baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls are dressed in pink. The baby boy may be dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop ... ...

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I could have probably also said that if a person was a secretary, a grade school teacher, a receptionist, a nurse, a maid, or a homemaker then that person must be a woman. People in the female group or gender worked lower paying less demanding jobs because It was believed that a woman could not handle the pressures that a "man's job' required. With the absence of the father figure in many American homes women have taken over as head of the house. They juggle home life and work to keep their families together so that they can properly raise their children. Women have broken the gender barrier i...

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... guys most definitely caused me some trouble when it came to being called names. I was pretty masculine, and I still am to this day but the fact that I wasn't out playing football with the guys during recess showed I was breaking the norms of what it meant to be a "real man" in the eyes of my classmates. Even now, when I"m out on the ... ...

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... more and more female sports, such as gymnastics, are being funded. But still, due to cultural beliefs, women are viewed as less feminine if, say, they decided to join the football team. As the coach tells Faludi, "If they'd just back off and let the big sports be funded the way they used to be- (522). This change affects the men ... ...

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... a picture, one of the girls described her drawing to the teacher as a portrait of a boy at her table and one of the boys described his drawing of being himself playing football with his brother. The other girl at the table drew a house and the second boy at the table described his picture to the teacher as a "scary" picture. Station 5 At this ... ...

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... tried to have abortions and were unsuccessful. It made me really appreciative of birth control methods that we have today. The list of instruments used for abortion included: a curtain rod, a football pump & straw, and a nut pick. These instruments were horrifying to hear about. It really made me realize how lucky I am to have never gone through such terrible circumstances. This also ... ...

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... tried to have abortions and were unsuccessful. It made me really appreciative of birth control methods that we have today. The list of instruments used for abortion included: a curtain rod, a football pump & straw, and a nut pick. These instruments were horrifying to hear about. It really made me realize how lucky I am to have never gone through such terrible circumstances. This also ... ...

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... own culture, an example could be the behavior displayed at almost any Thanksgiving meal. Traditionally, the women will cook and the men will be in another room socializing and watching football. The women typically stay close to the kitchen all day and the men are usually in a living room surrounding a TV. Also, the way that the women are not allowed in ... ...

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