How the Introduction of the Individual into a Non-traditional Sport for

How the Introduction of the Individual into a Non-traditional Sport for His or Her Gender Affects that Individual and the Sport ItselfA high school years boy makes the papers when he joins the girls varsity field hockey group at his high school. A cleaning lady is judged according to femininity kinda than muscle mass in a body building competition. An African American is thought inferior to his white counterparts on the sports field. A woman is discouraged from playing contact sports under the pretext of being too delicate. All of these events have one thing in common they, in their own context, involve individuals entering a non-traditional sport for their gender or race. Over the years, events such as these continu altogethery arise causing all promotion of the evolution of this sport, or the destruction or discouragement of confusable events occurring in the future. For the near part, such events are initially held in a negative light, only to become accepted over time, ne vertheless demo the scars of damage and/or the reaped benefits. The most immediate and perhaps most self-explanatory cost of such an entrance into the untraditional is the questioning of the participants sexuality. This inquiry is most common to women as they enter fields such as slugfest and basketball. Men, however, undergo the same scrutiny as they enter traditionally powder-puff sports such as figure skating and synchronized swimming. The appearance of spic-and-span genders in sport does however take a step in the right direction. Every opportunity seized to create some sort of equating between the sexes in athletics is a step forward for that individual, for his or her gender, and for the sport into which he or she enters. This idea is best shown through the actions of a high scho... ...al sports for their gender. This gender battle is deep, sports being merely one of the some(prenominal) fronts on which these differences appear. On most occasions, this experience is di fficult for the athlete. They are analyzed, questioned, and observed, all of which makes life very difficult. It is however, for the benefit of their gender, race, and for sport itself that such modifications are made, that such alterations in sport are evolved.Works CitedThe American Dream and Sport. ESS two hundred Course Reader. 1-54Banet-Weiser, Sarah. Hoop Dreams Professional Basketball and the Politics of Race and Gender. ledger of Sport and Social Issues. mass 23, Number 4 (November 1999) 403-420Holmlund, Christine Anne. Visible divergence and Flex Appeal The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the Pumping Iron Films. Cinema Journal. Volume 28 (Summer 1989) 299-310