#women in sports
Equal opportunity benefits can be far-reaching
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Ok, I’m crying.
Republicans want to “scale it back”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/10/trump-and-gop-likely-try-scale-back-title-ix-enforcement-sexual-assault
This is just one reason why Women exercising is important, and exercising for other reasons than just to look pretty.
Of course, “Because I want to/like it/want to get beefy” are all valid, but I want to highlight this story as something that was previously barred from Women. When Women were able to have the experiences that Men take for granted, it had a net positive effect by opening up many more opportunities for many more Women who would go on to do great things, like Sally Ride did.
-FemaleWarrior
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17 year old Jackie Mitchell applying makeup before she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, 1931.
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I did a TEDxToronto talk on why diversity in sports media matters.
The World Cup has been making headlines during it’s run so far - stories ranging from athletes biting other athletes to the protesting and rioting going on during the competition. It’s a high stakes event, appropriately put in a country that, as some say, lives and breathes soccer. Brazilian women, voted this year’s World Cup sexiest fans (this is a compliment, I suppose), love the sport as well: during the 2010 World Cup they were more than half of the country’s views. However, only less than 1% of registered soccer players in Brazil are female. How can a country so dedicated to a sport leave half its population behind?
“It’s disgusting. It goes against what it means to be a woman,” said Juliana Maria Castillo de Sousa for the Christian Science Monitor. She’s not the only one who thinks this: girls aren’t encouraged by their families or by their communities to pursue it. “It’s not that Brazilians think women shouldn’t play sports. It’s that they don’t think soccer is the appropriate sport…It’s the man’s domain,” said James Green, a professor of Brazilian history at Brown University.
Brazil is making strides for women’s rights and women’s empowerment: it elected its first female president in 2010, something the U.S. has yet to do. Although females were banned from the sport recreationally and professionally from 1941 to 1979, that ban has been lifted for 30 years and there is still a huge gap between women and men in the sport.
Some of it is funding. Women’s games don’t fill stadiums like men’s do. Some of it is their culture, as previously stated. “I feel less valued, less worth than boy players,” said one teen. Many plan on traveling to the U.S. or other countries so that they can play and use their skills in college.
(viaThis 14-Year-Old Girl Is One of the Best Rock Climbers in the World | Mental Floss)
“At just 14 years old, Ashima Shiraishi is widely considered to be one of the best rock climbers in the world. The New York City-based high schooler is a climbing prodigy. She started playing around on Rat Rock in Central Park when she was seven, and was climbing routes many adults can’t finish by the time she was eight. Now, at 14, she’s the only woman, and the youngest person of any gender, to climb a rock wall with a difficulty grade of 9a+ (5.15a), which is the third most difficult grade in existence.”
Grave fears for lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner detained in Russia
Grave fears for lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner detained in Russia
Experts and politicians have grave fears for the safety of American lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner, after her arrest in Russia a month ago.
Custom officials arrested the American WNBA star at an airport near Moscow on or around February 17, according to the US government.
Russian authorities accused the two-time Olympic gold medalist of having a vape cartridge containing cannabis oil in…
ILD: Julie Bindel: “Martina remains a role model for all lesbians. She set a standard, and she made a difference, by breaking barriers and being brave.”
ILD: Julie Bindel: “Martina remains a role model for all lesbians. She set a standard, and she made a difference, by breaking barriers and being brave.”
By Julie Bindel
I will never forget watching Martina Navratilova play at Wimbledon the year after she came out as a lesbian. It was the 1982 tournament and the backlash against her had been brutal.
Very deeply courageous and principled, Martina once estimated that she lost around US$10 million in endorsement deals as corporate executives rushed to distance themselves from her at a time when…
ILD: Lesbian Olympian rocks the basketball court
ILD: Lesbian Olympian rocks the basketball court
July 16 2021: TUCSON, Az. – The global audience of the It Gets Better Project received a glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ+ athletes who won’t let setbacks keep them from achieving their dreams in its new series “Passion. Power. Performance,” which streamed last month.
The docu-series shares inspirational stories behind proud LGBTQ+ athletes who are out and training for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics,…
ILD: Meet Portia Modise, Africa’s highest goalscorer and lesbian icon
ILD: Meet Portia Modise, Africa’s highest goalscorer and lesbian icon
Former South Africa striker Portia Modise doesn’t care if the football community loves her. She doesn’t care if you like her outspoken manner, or the way she dresses, or that she loves women.
She’s the only African footballer to score 100 international goals, and represented her country for 15 years from the age of 16. But if you don’t want to give her respect for that, or her countless…
Many congratulations to Simona Halep on the biggest win of her career yet! On Wednesday Halep beat two-time defending champion Serena Williams in Singapore. This is a milestone for Halep, who had never before defeated a World #3.
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Director and screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood workshopped her award winning film Love & Basketballat the 1998 Directors Lab and premiered it two years later at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
This month marks 20 years since Love & Basketball’s release and ESPNrecently posted an interview with Prince-Bythewood, along with the cast and crew of the groundbreaking film and it’s definitely worth checking out, ‘Love & Basketball’: An oral history of the film that changed the game.
1. DP Alicia Weber, director/screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood, actors Tamala Jones and Richard Jones, and crew chief Craig Sullivan during the 1998 Directors Lab. © 1998 | Photo by Unknown
2. Love & Basketball film still. Courtesy of Love & Basketball.
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