Women's Sports & Their Tiny Shorts

After the sports and politics video, I could not stop thinking about how women were and are treated in the sports world. I could not believe that women were treated the way that they were, being told that they are too “dainty” and “fragile”. Even when they did play, they were playing in long skirts, with their hair down. However, as the years passes, and the women’s movement has developed more and more and has advanced into what we know of it in todays world.

That does not necessarily mean it is a good thing though.

In my experience, playing volleyball my entire middle and high school career, I definitely experienced the whole inequality thing between male and female sports. Throughout high school, my team and me were the best team in the school, yet we were still unequally treated. It was honestly more frustrating than anything especially because our team held the most titles and the best record yet the boy’s basketball team was still treated better and with more respect than us. It sucked. It was all a political thing. Whoever made more money with fans got to be celebrated more with new uniforms, equipment, and pep rallies. While my team went to semi-state without a pep rally before, the boys basketball team hardly even made it past the first game in sectionals and for their reward, they got a huge pep rally and a lot of support with it. I blame sports and politics.

Another thing I would love to address would be the women’s volleyball uniform. Yes, volleyball uniforms have to be tight and little because it they were not, with all the diving and rolling going on during the game, the uniforms can slip, but it also leads to grabbing the spectator’s attraction. Therefore, I can understand why they have to be small and tight. So, I definitely understand that the Olympics have to make women’s uniforms for just about every sport, tight, revealing, and skimpy. It leads to an attraction, more ratings and viewings from audiences. In my opinion, it is just sad to me that women’s sports must do this just to get an audience. It’s a vicious game between sports and politics out there, all right.