media imagry of sportswomen

I have been reading, watching videos, watching you tube, looking for all sorts of information about how the media portrays our sports women. It seems to me that elite sports women ( and only some women get coverage) are portrayed as sexy, hetero, and 'almost as good as the guys'.

If we are going to talk to young people about the effects of gender and gender roles on ourselves as people then we need to look at how media portays gender in many different roles, including sports roles - not just fasionista, or working, or any other role - we need to cover ALL of them. It seems ridiculous that now that we live in an era that women are becomming professional athletes more and more; that we also have to ensure that those same women are portrayed as girlie, hetero and sex objects - come on media its time to move on!!!!!!!

I have also been joining in the discussions ( do some searches yourself - see what comes up) on the web about lighter skinned black women being given more opportunity in life than dark skinned black women - it amazes me that as human beings our capacity to denigrate and stereotype and oppress seems almost endless. We are all beautiful, and clever and special. Its time that everyone realised that- particulalrly the media



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