8 Module #2 Notebook

Model #2:

Part #1:

Prompt: (1) What other significant case/milestone would you add to this timeline? Note it in your notebook along with a brief (one or two sentences) explanation of why you feel it is important.

Potentially adding all the rulers throughout human history that had positive influence regarding advancements as even in the early human civilizations women play a prominent role in shaping society and the way the world formed. It would also allow for the reduction of bias norms when regarding women as all fact and folly should be understood to better understand why various roles and changes occurred through human history.

Prompt: (2) Has the gendering of sport ever been a constraint on your involvement? How? Or, if not, why do you think this is?

Personally as a male I feel that my doors we’re always opened to attempt a sport in my life; however I didn’t enjoy the same benefits as others my age which allowed me to not make assumptions based on poor sample data. I spent the majority of my life as an undersized, skinny child as everyone I knew grew and became men leading to a depressed state in sports. I had a friend from a young age who like me found the sport of hockey as an enjoyable time, to this day I have yet to beat her once which further reinforces the idea that limiting a person on gender bias allows for a misconstrued view of reality. Men are not better than women athletically yet the advantages men enjoy blind them to the realities they should face. For context a common perspective is a UFC fighter male would win easily against a women, yet there is a good chance she wins against 99.9% of the people below that point of perfection. My friend achieved a much higher level of skill and ability yet she is female and it represents the idea that life is not predictable it’s random and effort outworks talent if talent doesn’t work as hard 100% of the time.

Prompt: (3) record your response in your notebook AND briefly discuss in two or three sentences how these responses and the polling figures in general confirm or contradict your assumptions about gender-coding and sports. Did anything surprise you?

The results make sense if you generalize based on personal perspective, but I was shocked the stereotypical male sports and female sports that occurred as near multiple 100% beliefs seem to promote the idea the idea that sports such as cheerleading and gymnastics are sports that the average person believes are female dominant; this contrary to sports like rugby and football which in my opinion are played by likewise or comparable numbers of females to support representation but just that people from your given area or region may not play those sports as a whole. For instance your chances of finding a person male or female in this country that grew up playing hockey is the same chance as a person from Texas growing up playing football.

Prompt: (4) Do you agree? Why? In your experience, how fair are sports? Feel welcome to add a video response in the padlet below and provide an example if you’re willing. Make sure you include a screenshot of your response in your Notebook.

The sports world as a whole is defined by excluding as many people who aren’t as capable as others and it’s not just women that experience this discourse. Michel Phelps is the stereotypical born athlete whereas a person’s genetics combined with rigorous levels of hard work/training leads to an unattainable level by most. This however is not the detriment factor as even those who are at the highest levels of sports who posses potential not the most ideal circumstances forged out of hard work. Players such as Lionel Messi and Muggsy Bogues are examples that hard work not talent define success and poor examples of athletes exist as many with all the physical tools to be dominant fail to reach even close to expectations (i.e. NBA Ben Simmonds). Sports could aim to be more inclusive yet every year they don’t as size and skill outweighs skill allowing more skilled athletes to be less valued based on an uncontrollable factor of birth. A sports team is never going to do the more inclusive thing as that doesn’t help them win more/faster.