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itszonez · 1 year
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SURYA BONALY | appreciation post; The only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade
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samanthasgone · 8 days
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newyorkthegoldenage · 9 months
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19-year-old southpaw Jackie Mitchell, of the House of David baseball team, speaks to her teammates while in New York, July 14, 1933. Mitchell was the first and only woman to have a contract in Major League baseball, with the Chattanooga Lookouts. Two years earlier, in an exhibition game during spring training, she had struck out both Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth―in six pitches.
There is some controversy about that―not that it didn’t happen, because there is a film of it―but as to whether the Yankee aces were doing it just for show. Mitchell always maintained that it was genuine. “Why, hell, they were trying, damn right,” she said. “Hell, better hitters than them couldn’t hit me. Why should they’ve been any different?”
Timothy Wiles, who served as the Baseball Hall of Fame Research Director for about 20 years, said, “If she did this today, it would become a permanent part of the consciousness because of the media we have. If ESPN was around, it certainly would be their lead story.”
Mitchell was quoted at the time saying she learned to throw from her neighbor, MLB's Charles Arthur “Dazzy” Vance, who was later inducted into the Hall of Fame. Her contract was cancelled by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis after he heard about her spring training feat in 1931.
Photo: Associated Press via the Washington Post
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And he will forever prosper ❤️
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tzov · 11 months
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I saved this as a draft for a long time but I want to share it now:
Boys and men in sports humiliate and injure to prevent girls and women from "encroaching" on what they consider their domain.
I've tried to talk about this many times in my life, and I always get the, "you just can't handle competition, you just expect me to go 'easy,' on you, you're just whiny/weak/holding up the game, this is unavoidable" when it was extremely obvious to me that I was being maliciously targeted by boys in an attempt to humiliate me, not in an attempt to simply win the game.
I recognize common threads between complex individual experiences:
-That the excess violence was CLEARLY not necessary to win;
-That it was done to me/other girls and not boys of a comparable size/skill (or, often, lesser size/skill);
-That it would occur when I was not that great of a threat i.e., they would spend the whole CASUAL game focused on shutting me down even though a lot else was going on; and then, when it was serious and we were actually trying, we would be having fun, getting rough, and then when I was up, the clear moment of a DECISION (with a petulant gleam in the eye) to make it unfun by SUDDENLY kicking/slapping/shoving me EXCESSIVELY hard (in a way I could not prepare for as it had no precedent in the game), PURPOSELY (this is not hard to tell) hurling the ball as hard as they can at my head while I'm not looking, etc. (and this was often on top of disproportionate, unsportsmanlike ridicule/taunting, i.e., condescending/disgusted/impatient that I never saw boys do to each other, instead of the fun shit-talking that I DO understand is part of sport);
-In situations where they would not allow me to play (i.e., ignore me completely as a teammate, refuse to assign me a role, etc.), because they ASSUMED I couldn't before I could prove otherwise, and then when I insist, instantly hurting me on purpose so I still never get a chance to show that I am skilled/competitive;
-And finally, it was ALWAYS in conjunction with specific comments about my femaleness, or comments about how I'm overconfident/need to be taught a lesson (and I would not include this point if I were bragging about my skills or messing up the game, I can tell if I'm holding up a competition).
In the end, all of this DOES result in my being less practiced and skilled, which serves as an ad hoc justification for it
In my memories, it seems like they are angry that a girl has the audacity to try, because nothing is more hammered into our heads than, "girls are weak and it's unthinkable to lose to them or take them seriously." Just because women can't compete with men at certain high level sports obviously does not mean that every individual girl will lose to every individual boy--- and it's so important for me to tell the difference that I am very thoughtful about whether it's "rowdy crazy high level man stuff--" I've never been interested in participating in that because it's scary and feels pointless.
As a lifelong athlete, I also have a lot of experience with accidentally getting hurt, with "intimidation" as a legitimate strategy, with making a beginner player quit because they obviously don't belong in your game; but these are all ways boys will try to pass off their cruelty.
It's also worth noting that boys my age were UNABLE to physically overpower me until about age 14, and all of this still happened (though it happened a lot more after that). I know that sometimes girls can hold up games and be overconfident and I can imagine that would be annoying. But sport is so important to me, and this pain is so deep, and I've been told these things all my life, so there's no way I would not be looking out for such nuance.
For most girls, it really only takes the one experience for them to never try again. For me, I BELIEVED people for a long time that I just needed to accept that things get competitive and rough-- and that's why I put myself through it over and over, only to find that something else, something far more sinister, was clearly at play.
In summary, men and boys are actively unsportsmanlike and unnecessarily cruel to girls and women who want to try to build skill and compete in various sports, and this is nothing to do with biological differences-- just misogyny.
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barbiezal · 3 months
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Truly therapeutic to see women get to be angry and messy and violent for a living
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22plus15 · 28 days
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happy women's history month!
big thank you to all the athletes and women in sports who make history day in and day out 🌟⚽️💪
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womeninfictionandirl · 10 months
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Serena Williams by Sam Brannan
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montanagirl26 · 2 years
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Flashback to the greatest foul in WNBA history. Diana Taurasi kisses Seimone Augustus in the middle of the game. Both were fouled for it.
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dailyhistoryposts · 1 year
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On This Day In History
March 20th, 1985: Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod, a 1,135 mile (1827 kilometer) sled dog race in Alaska, USA.
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itszonez · 1 month
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FÁTIMA DIAME | Meeting de Paris Indoor 2024
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samanthasgone · 6 days
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ninjasawakenedmystar · 5 months
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I don’t usually make f1 posts here and only reblog/like from here, perhaps I need to make a side blog, but I just had to get my two cents out.
First and foremost, I’ve loved seeing the support for F1 Academy and I hope it continues to grow now that they have a live race distribution deal in place. Marta and the others have all done a fantastic job this season.
However, I am extremely disappointed in Danica Patrick, and have been growing increasingly so over the past few months. I used to watch Danica as a kid back when she was in NASCAR, in fact, she was the only reason I watched the races from time to time. The reason I’m saying this? I used to think she was cool.
If you’ve followed her career at all, you’ll know it was tough for her, especially when she arrived at NASCAR, and no one wanted to run with her. But, just because she’s experienced misogyny it doesn’t mean she can’t still perpetuate it.
Think of what she said during the F1 Kids cast about women in racing. How women supposedly don’t have the competitive instinct, and then doubling down on it in an “apology” by stating that she’s spoken with her female friends and they aren’t competitive in spirit. To me that sounds like a her problem—and something important to remember for later.
“Pick me” women are incredibly common in sport; if you’ve competed at a high level there’s a close to zero chance you haven’t encountered one yet. There’s always that one who puts down her fellow female competitors, backs up the “guys” who trash women’s sports, and revels in being one of the “boys” all while maintaining the illusion that they are somehow the “special girl”. The best girl. The one who’s different. A cut above the rest. In a league of her own.
But the thing is, Danica isn’t in a league of her own. Not anymore at least. There is something she’s been absolutely correct about and that’s as more and more young girls sign up for karting, statistically, we’re going to be seeing more and more women rise through the ranks. However, for some reason I cannot even begin to speculate, Danica seemingly still sees these women coming up through the ranks as competition. Because if there are other women with that “masculine agression” as she calls it, it means that the thing that she once thought made her special doesn’t anymore. It means she’s just like every other competitive sportswoman. She’s no longer a cut above, she’s just one of the girls. She’s just a normal female driver who has had an excellent career.
Tin foil hats and aliens aside—and I believe me I realize this is a lot to put aside—I would love to see Danica change her tune and be more supportive of other women in racing, perhaps even women in sports in general. But I don’t think she will.
That’s something that’s so amazing about the currently F1 Academy grid; although all the girls are competing against one another, they all have a fundamental understanding between one another and the challenges their male peers don’t face. They know what it’s like out there, Chole Grant’s interview has great insight into this. Because even though girls are getting into karts at a higher rate than before, we need to be making sure that they’re not dropping out due to social pressures (seen across all women’s sport, read here) such as low confidence, negative body image, perceived lack of skill, poor perception of belonging, and not feeling welcomed. They need to be supported; not debated about and prodded by comments like Danica’s.
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biblionerd07 · 7 months
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I’m reading No Crying in Baseball, about the making of A League of Their Own (film), and it keeps making me tear up lol. It was such a novel experience for so many of these actresses to get to work with so many other women all at once and not just be like the love interest or a set decoration. They got to be tough! And dirty! And ugly!! And there was a lot of hooking up behind the scenes! But the part that really got to me was that the studio was so worried about who was going to see it, because it’s a sports movie and those are For Men (🙄) but they didn’t think men would watch “girls playing baseball” (🙄🙄🙄🙄), and then someone involved in production screened it for his daughters who were 10 and 6 and they went absolutely bananas for it, so the studio realized that this was going to be huge with young girls. And none of them had stopped to consider what having this movie would mean to little (white) girls. They hadn’t even realized it would mean so much and be so enduringly popular!!!
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catboygiroux · 3 months
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I’m gonna throw Jamal Mayers into the sun.
Bro sickens me, the way he’s defending Hartman high sticking Perfetti. Sam Cosintino made a better point that it should have been a same revenge on a more experienced player (or the one who did the deed originally, Dillon)
Caroline Cameron being like “what if that was your SON? You’d be okay with that?”
Meyers just “yea, because then he’d know he’d have to go out and respond,” Bro what the fuck!!!!!
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popculturelib · 8 days
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For the Record: Women in Sports (1985) by Robert Markel and Nancy Brooks
Introduction:
Women athletes have participated in a multitude of sports and competitive events since the Games of Hera. Over the centuries since then, barriers to women's involvement in organized sport have been raised and then stormed; many, but not all, have fallen. Women have challenged records in popular and less well known sports and have performed feats of physical prowess. But until now it has been possible to find out about their accomplishments only by tedious and frustrating search that as often as not yielded incomplete or inaccurate information. The records established by women in sports have not been publicized in any organized or systematic format, and the stories behind the statistics—of such inspiration to young athletes and interest to fans—have not been widely known. I have, it is true, received recognition for my accomplishments, but probably more readily because I was the youngest ever on the team than because of my specific achievements. In the past, when women athletes have been noticed, it has generally been for some secondary or even frivolous distinction. This is a time for change. Women athletes are entitled to have their feats recorded and recognized, and they deserve to be seen as part of a tradition. Fans, who in ever-growing numbers are watching women in sports, are entitled to have access to the best information about women athletes past and present to enhance their understanding and enjoyment. And perhaps most important are the young, who will carry on our standards and traditions. Joe Di Maggio and Willie Mays are, rightly, heroes to boys who play baseball; girls playing softball should have a similar opportunity to admire and emulate Bertha Tickey and Joan Joyce. This book is the place to begin. Donna de Varona President, Women's Sports Foundation Gold Medalist, 1964 Olympics
The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.
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