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Name: Sunil
Birthday: 10/13/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Serioing, doin much of nutin, bummin in my cool B3W pad, come visit bitches (and by bitches i mean hot girls)
Expertise: Haha expertise, well...basketball, watching basketball, and basketball in my dorm room. Sign for myself on this expertise blog thingy.
Occupation: Government
Industry: Research
Message: message me
AIM:  suniloneal34
Member Since:
11/24/2003
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| Haven't posted in a while, holllllla
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| Now this is the difference between people with eyebrows and people without!
(The essay below was written by a De Anza student)
Matt, Sahil, Heather, and I were having a joyous time one day watching
the Los Angeles Lakers play the San Antonio Spurs when Lisa Leslie,
watching the game from the stands, appeared on the screen. Of course,
us three men knew who she was, being the basketball experts that we
were; however Heather asked, “Who was that?” The three of us started to
laugh because we would think she would know who the most popular WNBA
player was. Sahil said, “She’s from the WNBA on the Los Angeles
Sparks, but not many people know that because women sports are boring
and they suck.” Surely he wasn’t being serious, however he hit a
certain point. In mainstream America, athletics are widely perceived to
be a male-dominated domain. Males are thought to be more athletic than
females and therefore more watched. As such, there is a relative
indifference to women in pro sports as opposed to men.
When was the last time you saw women in pro sports
marketed for their talents? Female athletes are portrayed more for
their beauty than their athletic abilities. Anna Kournikova, Venus
Williams, and Serena Williams are all professional tennis players that
were in the Swimsuit addition of Sports Illustrated. WMLS Soccer all
star Mia Ham was just in a recent shampoo commercial portraying her
beautiful hair instead of her great soccer talent. At the beginning of
the WNBA season, they had a commercial of WNBA players in nice dresses
and flirting with the camera telling the viewers to come watch the new
season.
I guess you can say sex sells because female
athletic ability doesn’t, which brings me to the next topic of how men
have greater athletic ability than women. If the best player from the
NBA were compared to the best player in the WNBA, there would be no
comparison at all in athleticism. Comparing Kobe Bryant to Lisa Leslie
for example would be a big joke because Kobe is taller, stronger,
dribbles better, has better basketball fundamentals, shoots better, and
can jump a lot higher than Lisa Leslie. Even though they can both dunk,
Kobe Bryant can do a wide variety of dunks and almost all the players
in the NBA can dunk while only a few people in the WNBA can do the
same. Thereby making the competition weaker in the WNBA and making it
less entertaining for people to watch.
When was the last time you heard of a really
talented women being sponsored for athletic ability, and if you have;
what was her name? Male athletes have been way more exploited by the
media than female athletes. In newspapers such as the San Francisco
Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News, male athlete’s stats are shown
first over females or females aren’t shown at all. That gives female
athletes a lot lesser chance and opportunity of making it to the pros
because they don’t get recognized like the male athletes do. Nike
sponsored the Cleveland Cavaliers all star Lebron James for 100 million
dollars at the age of 18, before he even played an NBA game!
Bubblicious gum also sponsored Lebron James with his own flavor and
Sierra Mist sponsored 13 year old American soccer phenom Freddy Adu who
plays for the DC United club team in Major League Soccer.
These two legends were in commercials that showed
their athletic ability and not how they looked. This motivates
younger athletes to train harder to someday become like them. I do
agree that the female anatomy plays a small role in being less athletic
than a male, however I feel that that’s just a reason to not try as
hard. With a lot of hard work and effort, these goals can be achieved
for example now that Lisa Leslie can dunk, she should start to work on
it more to make it more useful. Will female athletes ever reach the
athletic ability, opportunities, and be marketed for their abilities as
male athletes or will they stay in the position they are in being
marketed for looks and ridiculed for their athletic ability like Sahil
said? Possibly in a world where females can be actually looked at as
athletes, and have the same opportunities as men will athletics be
looked at differently in America.
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| Damn....life can be such a burn and so damn good at the same time. I
wish I could just freeze time for a week, go away and relax stress free
and carefree and then come back and pickup where i left off. I think
imma try that Jamie Fox trick and put an island wallpaper as my
desktop..i'll tell u how successful that is some day. On that note, me,
my island and Rachel Mcadams will see you later!
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