My personal experience with this issue is when I started to play basketball around the age of ten. Society expected for me to dress like a boy before and after the games, but instead of doing that I continued to wear ribbons in my hear and lip gloss on my lips. I did not let my so-called "girlishness" get in the way of playing the game that I loved. However, my cousin played basketball as well and conformed to the dressing like a tom boy and was respected better and taken more seriously in the game of basketball. I felt as if that was unfair that people felt she was a better player than me because of the way she dress and carried herself. People automatically assumed that she could play better than I could.
Article 1: This article talks about the women trying to reverse the ideologies of women who participate in sports to be butch or homosexual. This deters women from the sports because they do not want to be judged. The articles states, "The media distract men from the real essence of women’s athletics, preventing the spread of further awareness and support from the American public."
Article 2: This article discusses female masculinity in Weimar cinema. The article argues, "That the appropriation of male clothing and prerogatives by certain female characters in late Weimar cinema provided a powerful means of challenging traditional gender boundaries and articulating non-heterosexual desires." This new female emerged during the Wiemar era and then became the sites of a spectacle in which production of the female image reached a heightened presence, bringing about a new stage in the critical reevaluation of the female image.
Article 3: This article began talking about a currently butch lesbian who yearbook pic was place on the internet and everyone thought she was 'smoking hot.' The article poses that she should go back to look like that wearing jewelry and covered in make-up--some of the essentials of being a woman. The article also suggest that some conservatives would rather for Rachel Maddows to return to appearing "girlie". The goes on and provides examples of various celebrities partaking in female masculinity. For example, the front cover of Life Magazine said "Why is Angelina Turing Shiloh into a Boy" when she allowed her daughter to choose what she wanted to wear. The overall side of this article was for female masculinity to be accepted and for people to not be afraid of it.
Article 4: This article discusses female masculinity in children's fantasy, books in which girl roles taking the place of boys. One novel this article discusses a fantasy fiction about a girl passing as a boy. The article states,"By asserting and embodying a girl's drive to be masculine, these books show readers, in dizzying, parodie excess, that masculinity is fun, powerful, and available to anyone who wants some." The article goes on to give more children fantasy books examples that involves female masculinity. For example a novel entitled, Allana: The First Adventure, by Tamora Pierce, "involves twins, the girl of which disguises herself as a boy to receive the knight's training for which she is better suited than her scholarly brother."
Article 5: This article comes from a magazine (media) and talks about how woman should not have to look like the typical 'sexy' woman. Tons of woman have been criticized by their lack of femininity because of their breast being too small or not appearing like a typically female would and how touchy of a subject this is. The article goes on to say that some women are masculine by choice or its just natural and that beauty begans on the inside.
rticle 6: Source from the book (1.3). This subchapter discusses a documentary entitled "Out of bounds" and it focuses on a group of professional women football players to understand their gender identity. The documentary captured different plays and the overall technique of the women playing the game. Some woman did not see gender identity but just enjoyed the game of football and took offense at the suggested connection between football and masculinity.
