#Women in Sports

[itszonez]

SURYA BONALY | appreciation post; The only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade

#surya bonaly #my upload #figure skating #pocedit #userwocs #dailywoc #userbbelcher #women in sports #appreciation post #nerd4music #userdome #userduzi #userlili #usermazy

[samanthasgone]

Credit: thepenaltypodcast

🎥 Posted on tiktok by: @kaileysibley

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#hockey #nhl #thepenaltypodcast #jack hughes #quinn hughes #vancouver canucks #new jersey devils #I’m just a fan of this Instagram account #women in sports #hughes brothers

[newyorkthegoldenage]

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

#vintage New York #1930s #vintage baseball #baseball #pitchers #women in sports #women in baseball #Jackie Mitchell #July 14 #14 July #sex discrimination #women's rights

[blackgirlsreverything]

And he will forever prosper ❤️

#jalen hurts #women #women in sports #powerful women #strong women #women in business

[tzov]

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.

#women in sports #title ix #misogyny in sports #radical feminist safe #og

[22plus15]

happy women's history month!

big thank you to all the athletes and women in sports who make history day in and day out 🌟⚽️💪

#lionesses #engwnt #fcb femení #barcelona femeni #espwnt #futfem #women in sports #women’s history month #women’s history #holi #hard to find a spain wc trophy pic without vilda

[womeninfictionandirl]

Serena Williams by Sam Brannan

#Sam Brannan #serena williams #art #artwork #portrait #female portrait #women in sports #women in sport #tennis #sport #tennis champion #female athletes #irl women/girls

[montanagirl26]

Flashback to the greatest foul in WNBA history. Diana Taurasi kisses Seimone Augustus in the middle of the game. Both were fouled for it.

#diana taurasi #wnba #women in sports #lgbtq #seimone augustus

[dailyhistoryposts]

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.

#history #women in sports #libby riddles #iditarod #dogblr

[itszonez]

FÁTIMA DIAME | Meeting de Paris Indoor 2024

#fatima diame #fátima diame #my upload #black beauty #women in sports #track and field #dailywomen #userwocs #melanin #she’s gorgeous

[samanthasgone]

Credit: penaltyboxpodcast

Hey Barbies! You thought we were really done? 🎀 We are back with a PWHL version of our series! ⭐️ @barbie

Created by graphic designer: @calliehornback_21

#barbie #pwhl #pwhl montreal #pwhl toronto #pwhl boston #pwhl minnesota #pwhl new york #pwhl ottawa #professional women's hockey league #women’s hockey #women in sports #girls in hockey #women empowerment #ottawa #toronto #boston #new york #minnesota #montreal

[biblionerd07]

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!!!

#a league of their own #no crying in baseball #they had their one little 5 seconds of a Black woman throwing a ball as their nod to the segregation and exclusion #but Penny was ‘just not interested’ in including anything about how queer the league was #which has me like 😒 even though I know the studio would never have let that happen even if she’d wanted it #but poor Rosie kept getting shit for ‘gay undertones’ in Doris’s monologue about her shitty boyfriend #like no shit there’s gay undertones there for a bunch of reasons!!! #anyway overall it sounds like filming was high tension and exhausting but they all loved it and everyone sobbed inconsolably in the end #and Tom hanks sounds like a total sweetheart in every anecdote #Madonna was an absolute nightmare throughout #geena Davis was trying to put on a cast production of Jesus Christ superstar #you know bc they didn’t have enough to do #their fave hangout was the local gay bar #everybody’s periods synced up and the crew who had to empty the trailer toilets were not pleased #women from the real league were involved a bit #especially in the final scene with the reunion game #which the studio wanted to CUT bc they thought ‘no one cares about these old ladies’ I’LL KILL YOU!!! #women in sports

[catboygiroux]

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!!!!!

#leafs lb #ducks lb #Sportsnet feed #women in sports

[popculturelib]

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.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #women's history month #women in sports

[22plus15]

happy international women's day!

taking a quick detour from my usual content to share a few books i've been reading about women in sports:

(p.s. i'm american so these are pretty usa-centric)

Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America by Julie DiCaro

julie dicaro recounts her own time in sports talk radio as well as the stories of many other women. great examples of how the toleration of violent or otherwise misogynistic male athletes contributes to the exclusion of women in sports media. really tough subject material at times but necessary and very eye-opening -- also less than 250pgs!

Money, Power, Respect: How Women In Sports Are Shaping The Future of Feminism by Macaela MacKenzie

split into three sections that explore how money, power, and respect (or the lack thereof) in women's sports reflect the struggles of women and afab people in larger society. i especially enjoyed that it touched on the gap in venture capital investments in women's sports and athlete sponsorship deals rather than just wages alone

Fair Play: How Sports Shape The Gender Debates by Katie Barnes

i was really excited to read this from a queer/nonbinary journalist and it did not disappoint! katie doesn’t shy away from the many complexities surrounding the intersection of gender and sport and i enjoyed reading the personal experiences of trans athletes across different sports and time periods. really accessible writing, i highly recommend if you’re interested in learning more about the history of or debate around trans inclusion in sport

bonus:

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

bonus fictional lesbian soccer romance! my fellow lesbian coworker sent me the preorder link during the world cup lol. really fun read and highly recommend for any romance lovers!

back to your regularly scheduled l&o programming!

🖤🚺👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩⚧️🤎

#international women's day #women's history month #women in sports #feminism #intersectional feminism #feminist literature #lgbt romance #lgbt books #holi #22plus15 speaks

[fruitbasketball]

y’all i just have a few things to say about the rhetoric surrounding the glossier campaign (this is not directed at anyone in particular, i’ve just seen some posts and negative comments surrounding it)

the glossier campaign is not an insinuation that women NEED to wear makeup while they play their sport. it’s an advancement to make it easier for women who already do wear makeup.

i played volleyball for seven years, from the ages of 11 to 18. my FAVORITE part of game days and away tournaments and games was doing my makeup with my teammates and helping each other get ready and having my hair braided.

and it’s odd, because i was always told that i was a less serious athlete because i had a bit of mascara or gloss on or took the time to do two dutch braids. i was fed a narrative that to be serious about my sport, i had to abandon my femininity.

i see the rhetoric surrounding this being the same as the rhetoric surrounding women who wear makeup in general. that makeup is trivial, or that it’s an agent of the patriarchy. at the end of the day, that’s bullshit.

female athletes are still women when they step on the court or the field. being good at a sport is not an inherently masculine thing, and we need to stop attributing traditionally masculine traits to athleticism. it’s harmful, and honestly? it sets us back. a lot of women like to wear makeup when they compete - i did. there’s nothing wrong in creating a product or a line that is INCLUSIVE BTW that makes that process easier for women who do play sports.

you do not need to abandon traditional femininity or stop wearing makeup or quit wearing your hair a certain way to be taken seriously. and you don’t need to start wearing makeup or start wearing your hair a certain way to be taken seriously either. women should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their bodies in their sport - with absolutely no judgement.

#glossier #wnba #women in sports #wbb #volleyball