Sports
The first reading talks about opinions and views on professional athletes and what they should or shouldn’t do. People were making a big deal out of one guys doing a photo shoot and another one missing a game for the birth of his own child. It also brought up the issue of women in sports and how controversial of an issue that is. Men say they won’t want women in the press box or doing anything with announcing because they think a woman’s voice over the intercom is annoying and they don’t want to hear it while they are trying to watch a sporting event.
I don’t see what the huge deal is with missing a game for a child being born. It’s his own son and a big deal is being made. Family comes first, before anything else. Majority of celebrities do some sort of photo shoot at some point in time, so what’s the difference with an athlete doing it? It’s still the same concept just a different person. Sports judge women so harsh. Not all voices are annoying but because one or two have been before it’s stereotyped that way. But what about men? I know I have heard some very annoying men’s voices coming over the speakers at sporting events. Just because it’s a man and sports though, it doesn’t matter.
The second reading, “The Televised Sports Manlihood Formula” , it talks about how many hours boys spend watching tv and negative effects it has on them. It doesn’t just talk about the shows being negative, but the commercials are almost worse than the actual event they are watching. The commercials are sexist and racial, using mostly white males and conveying the message that women are prizes. It also talks about how even if you get hurt you’re supposed to play and go against what you are told to do. It also talks about if you are mean and aggressive you are not good. In order to be ‘good’ and effective you must be over the top aggressive.
I’m in no way against boys watching sports on tv, I think it is good for them to watch some. Not everything comes down to what they see and hear on tv. That doesn’t make someone who they are. It’s the combination of the home life, what they are taught at school and by their parents, and what they watch on tv. However, I am completely opposed to the commercials and how they depict women. It’s not right in the first place for only white men to be used on commercials, there’s the occasional minority group shown but not that often. And women? It’s degrading having them in very little clothing and showing them as prizes across the screen. That’s not how women should be seen. Unfortunately, the things that are talked about in the second reading happen all too often and are true in today’s world.