Sexism in Sports

SEXISM IN SPORTS

In school

Dear Charlie we are doing some running in physical education and sport, and a lots of us noticed that the mark scale is very different from man to woman. I understand that physical capacities aren't the same between men and women but wouldn't it be more logical to consider that everyone is different and produce some individual scale. I know it would take a lot of time, money,... But with this system some boys with lowered capacity than the "average" are disadvantage while girls with higher capacity than the "average"  are faciliated. Quite apart from  this I think that the scale capacity aren't well done because only two (for the moment) of the boys had reach the best mark possible, while the best mark should be reach by everyone.

Amateur

A lot of clothing inequalities are spotted like in shops were most of the man sports clothes are blue and woman clothes are pink. They even have created sports skirt. 

In club we can notice that there is more men team than woman and sometimes no woman team at all. Is it because there is more man who wants to practice sport than girls or more possibilities for men to practices? In both case I think that there are questions of education, psychology and prejudices. Also I think that team sport should be mixed, people should be separated in fonction of their level if a woman has the same skill as man why wouldn't she part of it ?

Professional

In general man team are more famous than woman team even national ones. "Men sports" is broadcast on tv while in "woman sports " it's more unusual. 

As we can see in this article sport spread the "old" way of thinking about man and woman. In some sports women are so under estimated that there are consider as sexual objet as in  the feminin soccer where woman are playing in uderwear. There is a pornographical kind of sport which is a kind of wrestling, woman are in underwear in an oiled ring. This sport are to me decreasing the image of man and woman.