After today's class is got me thinking about an issue that plagued my high school years. My freshmen year I started playing girls' lacrosse and fell in love with the sport... but not with the rules.
If anyone knows the difference between girls' and boys' lacrosse, you would be aware of the complete difference in the sports. Boys wear padding comparable to that of a football player: helmet, shoulder pads, arm pads and goalies have optional thigh and calf protection. Their rules allow them to "check" or hit each other with their sticks and their sticks are actually completely different from girls'. Girls only wear eye goggles and mouth guards.
I'm a pretty competitive person, but when I practically have to curtsey to the goalie before I shoot a goal, it kind of ticks me off. There is actually a rule in girls' lacrosse, but not in boys', that is called a "dangerous propel." Essentially if the referee believes that the shooter aimed for the goalie on purpose (specifically the head) she could be penalized for hurting the goalie. What?!?!
I don't like when girls' are treated so extremely fragile, especially in sports. I'm not an extreme feminist... but I don't like feeling unequal.
I feel the same way! I didn't know girls and boys lacrosse was so different. You must love how in coed soccer intramurals here at byu that when a girl scores a goal it is 2 points.. now that is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Haylie's comment: a lot of coed intramural sports are that way. That could be a good opinion editorial topic (though of course, too late now. :)).
ReplyDeleteHowever: this could be an issues paper topic. You don't have to be a "feminist" to take issue with something like female sports differing from male sports. There has been much said about it, and there continues to be. As is, sports have changed a lot over the century because people have made issues out of the gender inequalities. So, if you don't have other ideas, this could be worthwhile to pursue.
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