Most woman organizations believe that major sports such as men's football take up too much of the budget. The reason behind that is football requires a huge roster of players and secondly, football attracts the most public attention. If people continue to pay money to watch their football team every week then football is going to continue to have an enormous budget and rightfully so. ... Statistics show that Division I football players earn their degree within six years of entering college and only 43 percent of college basketball players earn a degree. ... The statistics above imply that...

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This explains why men are more suited for competing in ruff sports such as football and hockey. If men and women had the same body types, then women would be playing football side by side with men, but that's not the case. ...

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This is most apparent in the way women's teams are named, for example if a college football team was to be called the "Blue Hawks", the female side would have a much less powerful name like the "Blue Tits". ... The reasons for this is that the people in positions of authority in the newspapers are male and so the males are more interested in the male sports like football and rugby, instead of hockey, so they print stories or broadcast these sports. ...

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The images that the song "U + UR Hand," by Pink, bring to mind thoughts that aren't exactly "G" rated. But that was the purpose of this girl power song. She just wanted to go out to a bar and have a good night without being fondled by some drunk strangers. She helps sets the precedent for the cultur...

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Instead of adding women's athletic opportunities to satisfy gender quotas, colleges are destoring men's opportunities in athletics by dropping many men's sports, such as wrestling, men's gymnastics, and men's swimming, some have gone as far as cutting football programs. ... Another big problem with the gender quotas is football, it has an exceptionaly large all-male roster without any female counterpart. It takes up to three or four female teams to offset football. ... So instead of dropping football, most colleges and universities are deciding to cut Olympic sports...

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Like the executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation, I believe that schools are continuing to increase their budgets on sports that create revenue, specifically men's football and basketball, leaving much lower budgets for some men's and almost all women's sports. The executive director, Donna Lopiano, notes that smaller schools (Division II & III) are adding male sports, yet the Division I schools, who put a lot of pride in their popular teams, are eliminating other sports "Because they're fueling the football monster." ...

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Some of them were action figures, nerf guns, legos, male Disney character stuffed animals, footballs, toy airplanes, and numerous building sets. ... The nerf guns and footballs that are given to the children at such a young age mold them to believe they are supposed to be physically active and a tuff person. ...

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GQ/September 2003 Men's magazines are similar to women's magazines in very few ways. They both display clothing, hygiene products, and stories of life. GQ is kind of similar to women's fashion magazines such as Vogue and Bazarre. There were many pages of advertisements by Prada, Gucci, Banana...

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Hibbett Sports From the moment that I walked into the doors of Hibbett Sports, until the moment I left, it was obvious that I was in a male's domain. The clothes, equipment, organization, and even the employees were all screaming out masculinity. The lighting was poor, the colors were dark, a...

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Assumptions are things that we hear, see, think, or believe are true about people and situations that we often have little or no evidence to back up. We make assumptions every day of our lives. For example, as a driver on the roads, we assume that other drivers will obey the traffic signals and laws...

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Guns, Trucks, Rambo, wrestling, and many such games are one form of the way boys are influenced to macho men. In today's society, boys are highly pressured to meet the expectations of being masculine. Boys have a reputation to live up to in order to be accepted in society. Boys are influenced to ...

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Justice is defined as the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law; the principle of moral rightness. I will use the principles of Kant, Bentham/Mill, and Plato to help show why some particular sexist and racist actions are wrong...

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ADVERTISING TARGETS Commercials are common means of advertising used to persuade the public to use or buy a certain product. Some of these commercials target certain types of people, most dominantly sex. Undoubtedly, these commercials often cause controversy because they seem highly stereotypical. F...

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How do men and women communicate clearly when most of their ways of communicating are so different? In today's society, language plays a major role in defining gender. "Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication," according to Deborah Tannen in her article "Talk in the Intimate Rela...

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America is a land of opportunity, equality and freedom. It is a place where people can come and have rights and be able to do the things they want to do, and be who they want to be. Title IX of the education amendments act of 1972 was set up for that reason. Title IX is a federal law that states, "N...

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