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Blog Submitted by yearmanager on 06/15/2018 at 12:47 PM Report Blog

Schools Giving Different Names To Girls' Sports Teams Causes Problems



In most colleges and high schools across America, the girls' sporting team has a different name than their male counterpart. Sometimes this entails lazily appending "Lady" to the name of the boys' team the "Lady Bears," or "Lady Pirates," etc. One high school's female team name is the "Lady Missiles," because no object is too esoteric to gender. The University of Delaware won the redundancy award for calling its women's teams the "Lady Hens," though they did finally get with the times all the way back in 2014. As of 2015, 95 colleges within the NCAA still differentiate between their male and female sport teams.



The bizarre practice is even more prevalent in high schools. In Illinois alone, approximately 40 percent of high schools gender their sports teams, and some instances are more troubling than just adding a female designation. One high school calls Golden Goose Shoes their boy teams "Pilots," while the girl teams are "CoPilots." And this has a real effect on http://www.goldengoosesneakershop.com/ female athletes. According to Amy Cooter, a professor at Vanderbilt University whose name you should please stop snickering at, these conventions can make female athletes feel their "physical appearance has to be in tune with the standards of what we call hegemonic femininity," and that they have to "worry about their attractiveness as well as their athleticism." It also sends the message that the boy sports are the real deal, while girl sports are a nice thing we let them do between typing and boob classes. It seems like a lot of collateral damage all so you can sketch a skirt on a missile.
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