The Mask Project
Female Athletes In Male Sports
Hannah Gallegos
I’ve been socialized by sports, friends, and the media to believe that some sports should be separated by gender. In the cycle of socialization, there are seven parts. The two parts that are related to me are “ institutional and cultural socialization” and “enforcement's”. At the end of my time playing baseball, I was led to believe that there are sports that are strictly for males and others strictly for females. Sports, teammates, and media led me to these biased beliefs.
Playing baseball socialized me to believe that certain sports were not for females. I have this belief, not only from my own experience but by watching how another female on my team was treated. One season, the other girl on my team was treated poorly by the male players. They teased us, but they did not bother me as much as her. The males thought it was funny but it wasn't to her or me. That was my last year of playing baseball. It was my last year because I realized that the way the females were treated would not change, since the prior season, our treatment had slowly gotten worse.
My teammates socialized me to believe that baseball was for males and not females. They did this during the time I played baseball. If a female messed up, the males would have a negative reaction but when one of the males messed up, they would not really have any sort of reaction. The reason I think they did this was because I was female. In a video we watched called “A Call To Men” Tony Porter says, “men had to be tough, strong, courageous, dominating, no pain, no emotions, with the exception of anger, and definitely no fear, that men are in charge, which means women are not, that men lead, and that you should just follow, and do what they say, that men are superior, and women are inferior” to me that means that they didn't get mad at each other because they all thought they were superior to women but not one another.
Media socialized me to realize that sports are separated by gender, even though that isn't right. It was obvious to me when I was watching a professional baseball game and saw that there were no female players or female coaches and not many females in the stands. I believe that if a woman wants to play a “man's sport”, they should be allowed to play if they are qualified. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if women played baseball. I also wonder why softball was established for girls and why girls just couldn't play baseball past age twelve.
In conclusion, the way I was socialized has made me who I am. In my opinion, playing sports, my teammates and the media have influenced my opinions. My beliefs may change over time through different things, but I believe that females should be able to play baseball just as the men do. The future for women is getting stronger, and they are learning that they can do a man’s job just as well. Society has to be convinced that no matter what sport it is, women want to be counted and are strong leaders too.
Hannah Gallegos
I’ve been socialized by sports, friends, and the media to believe that some sports should be separated by gender. In the cycle of socialization, there are seven parts. The two parts that are related to me are “ institutional and cultural socialization” and “enforcement's”. At the end of my time playing baseball, I was led to believe that there are sports that are strictly for males and others strictly for females. Sports, teammates, and media led me to these biased beliefs.
Playing baseball socialized me to believe that certain sports were not for females. I have this belief, not only from my own experience but by watching how another female on my team was treated. One season, the other girl on my team was treated poorly by the male players. They teased us, but they did not bother me as much as her. The males thought it was funny but it wasn't to her or me. That was my last year of playing baseball. It was my last year because I realized that the way the females were treated would not change, since the prior season, our treatment had slowly gotten worse.
My teammates socialized me to believe that baseball was for males and not females. They did this during the time I played baseball. If a female messed up, the males would have a negative reaction but when one of the males messed up, they would not really have any sort of reaction. The reason I think they did this was because I was female. In a video we watched called “A Call To Men” Tony Porter says, “men had to be tough, strong, courageous, dominating, no pain, no emotions, with the exception of anger, and definitely no fear, that men are in charge, which means women are not, that men lead, and that you should just follow, and do what they say, that men are superior, and women are inferior” to me that means that they didn't get mad at each other because they all thought they were superior to women but not one another.
Media socialized me to realize that sports are separated by gender, even though that isn't right. It was obvious to me when I was watching a professional baseball game and saw that there were no female players or female coaches and not many females in the stands. I believe that if a woman wants to play a “man's sport”, they should be allowed to play if they are qualified. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if women played baseball. I also wonder why softball was established for girls and why girls just couldn't play baseball past age twelve.
In conclusion, the way I was socialized has made me who I am. In my opinion, playing sports, my teammates and the media have influenced my opinions. My beliefs may change over time through different things, but I believe that females should be able to play baseball just as the men do. The future for women is getting stronger, and they are learning that they can do a man’s job just as well. Society has to be convinced that no matter what sport it is, women want to be counted and are strong leaders too.
Project Description
For the mask project, we started by studying the cycle of socialization. First, we read two articles one on the cycle of socialization and one on the feral children. Feral children are children that were either not raised by humans or not taken care of well by there parents. After reading the two articles we read a book called “American Born Chinese” the book was about a boy who was Chinese but lived in America. Then we watched videos on different concepts of socialization, such as “My Princess Boy” about a boy who liked to were princess dresses. Forth we watched other videos and a movie, one of the other videos we watched was a documentary called “White People”. The movie we watched was “Mean Girls” we watched mean girls to learn about how our peers and friends socialize us. Fifth we used plaster strips and had a classmate but them on our face over saran wrap to make a mold of your face. After making the mold we started to design it. Last we wrote are essay to go with our mask and made the final touches on our mask.
Project Effort
In this project, I pushed myself and didn't settle for the easy way.I did the best I could and sometimes even pushed myself harder than I sometimes especially in the essay piece.I advocated for myself when I was confused, had a question or did not understand something, I did not ever advocate for a classmate during this project. One of the times I advocated for myself was in the beginning of the project I had two ideas for what I wanted my mask and essay to be about and needed help to decide which I was going to use. In this project I did not give up easily I worked through even the hard parts. One of the hard parts was just starting the essay figuring out how to tell the story I was trying to tell. My final work was very refined and I take extreme pride in my final product I showed at exhibition. I refined my work by writing one essay getting help editing it than writing a whole new different one and getting help from family with editing it to make it better.