Blog 2: Gender Representation
She Plays Like a Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZzVags7TfU Prompt 1: For years we have heard the expression, “She plays like a girl” ,which can be interpreted as playing at a lower standard than males in athletic sports. There are some some individuals, that still live in the world where they believe that females cannot be as great at playing any kind of sport like males, who are apparently the only ones with that ability. Through time, that has changed in our society, we have seen the immense growth in Women Sports, which have proven that they too can be as good or even better at sports than just the males. In the movie Gracie , the story it tells the audience is about a girl named Grace Bowen, who is trying to demonstrate to her father and the rest of her school that she has the ability to play alongside with the boys in the soccer team. Now, the representation of girls at being athletes is being tested and not just in the sense that women cannot play sp...