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Friday, July 16, 2010
Welcome to Falsified Femininity
Thanks for visiting our blog! We are a group of girls that are looking to challenge media stereotypes of women in sports through print and media advertisements. Here you'll find funny, controversial, confusing, outwardly outrageous and compelling advertisements both in print and online. We will begin to discuss what these advertisements mean for women and how these affect the views and images associated with athletic and sport-specific stereotypes about women in tennis, soccer, baseball, volleyball and golf. These advertisements are not just for show, but will hopefully begin a discourse on a much larger problem of representation of women in media, specifically through sports.
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I got to thinking about women's sports. There are some sports where men and women should be able to compete equally. Sports where strenght and speed aren't factors. Two, for example, are bowling and billiards. Both of these sports rely on accuracy, skill and consistency. A woman can throw a strike with less speed on the ball as well as a man can with more speed. I've seen little kids roll the ball between their legs and get a strike. So speed, while it helps, is not the dominant factor. And, I'm fairly sure, you don't need a lot of strength to hit a q-ball. You don't see a women's INDY tour or women's NASCAR tour do ya. So why don't men and women compete equally in sports like these?
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