What Does It Mean To Be A Man's Thing To Do Essay
Women have been judged and told that they “couldn’t do” certain things for hundreds of years, especially female athletes. Whether it was for the “emotional level of a woman”, or just their supposed “inability to play”, they have been unappreciated for what they can do by sexist, misogynistic men like Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He claims that, “you know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us [men]”. I am glad that this idea of female athletes has faded over the years, and that women are finally beginning to get the recognition that they deserve. Sports have always been thought of as a “man’s thing to do”. However, when women began to play, men did not condone it, and just tried to belittle them. They believed that men provide a “more attractive game”, and that “men spend twice as long on the court as women do”, according to Gilles Simon. This idea is completely untrue, mainly because women work twice as hard to attempt to get the recognition that they deserve. Whatever sport a woman decides to play, whether it’s basketball, tennis,
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It began in 1996, over 100 years after Senda Benson adjusted James Naismith’s basketball rules for women. In the first playing season of this league, “more than 50 million viewers watched WNBA games on three networks”, and by 2001, “WNBA games were broadcasted to nearly 60 million fans in 23 different countries”, according to the article “History of the WNBA”.This was such a shock, especially since the TV audience ratio was about 50-50 male-female. The appreciation of female athletes has significantly increased over the last hundreds of years. Some male athletes used to believe that they are superior to female athletes. However, as time is going on and women are gaining the acknowledgement that they deserve, males are beginning to give females
It began in 1996, over 100 years after Senda Benson adjusted James Naismith’s basketball rules for women. In the first playing season of this league, “more than 50 million viewers watched WNBA games on three networks”, and by 2001, “WNBA games were broadcasted to nearly 60 million fans in 23 different countries”, according to the article “History of the WNBA”.This was such a shock, especially since the TV audience ratio was about 50-50 male-female. The appreciation of female athletes has significantly increased over the last hundreds of years. Some male athletes used to believe that they are superior to female athletes. However, as time is going on and women are gaining the acknowledgement that they deserve, males are beginning to give females