Thursday, March 31, 2016

Girls and Football

Madison Baxter, a 12 year old girl was recently denied from her school football team because of her gender. her mother spoke with new reporters about how upset her daughter was and how she had looked forward to this experience for awhile. the head Football coach would not comment on the situation but her mother explained, that the coach said it would be unsafe and that he didn't feel comfortable doing it. This shows that society is still assigning different activities to certain genders.    

1 comment:

  1. this goes into the concept of the gender binary that we talked about in class about society assigning certain roles and attributes to genders. I think that by denying a child from doing something such as a sport that you are teaching them that they are not equal or the same as their peers.

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