There have been different cases related to this subject. Most of them involving man pretending to be women in a particular sport. In this essay I am going to provide an example of a different case, a women passing for a man in a sport. The 18 year old, South African Caster Semenya, was tested because people were doubting her sex. They didn’t know if she was a male or female, therefore, they decided to do the gender verification on her.
UNLEASH YOUR HERO By Tiffany Adams This “how-to” article is aimed towards a male audience in middle life. This population may read magazines such as Sports Illustrated or even Playboy. These magazines may objectify women and encourage such theories such as hegemonic masculinity, but they reach a wide male audience that has a huge impact on the issues of Gender Violence and thus deserve to be tapped. This article aims to motivate men to take a stance against Intimate Partner Violence, as activating bystanders even in a more passive role can only have a positive effect on society today. You can hear them arguing, again; but this time, there is an abrupt end to the conflict as one of them escalates
Sylvia Etim Instructor Tim Nelson English 1013 (012) 2 April 2015 The Pressure of the Public Sometimes people are oppressed into doing what they know that is wrong. The essay “We, the Public, Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals” by William Moller talks about how most athletes and students use performance enhancing drugs in order to achieve their goals. In his essay, Moller defends the athletes by arguing that the major reason they use the steroids is because of the pressure being put on them from the public and the desire to live up to their expectations. Moller uses an essential strategy at the beginning of his essay by using his personal experience to make readers to understand his view of point. He also
The main reason is that I was a sissy, but we also never really had a chance to hang out alone together. I’m not gutsy like my friend, who plays a big part in the story and will be mentioned later on, I couldn’t face rejection in public. So we just went on talking every day, touching on subjects that I never would’ve thought to with someone that I hadn’t known for a long time. Skip to the next month, I had still yet to ask her out. I was kind of feeling stupid, and in my head I
In the section titled, “The Reality of Homosexuality and its Lifestyles,” Ray states, “Many homosexuals engage in sexual practices that are virtually unknown among heterosexuals.” After checking the front cover to determine if this book was written in this century, I found it difficult to believe Ray felt he could effectively speak for the entire heterosexual world when he made this statement. During my initial enlistment processing, I was asked if I was homosexual or heterosexual. I was never asked if I
Diversity has become a major issue at the forefront of many corporation’s dealings. Issues with tokenism have been even more prevalent in the world of sport. Longstanding issues such as, the small number of females coaching male sports and the low percentage of minority head coaches in the NFL reflect Rosabeth Kanters’ view on minorities and tokens in the workplace. In this paper, I will use both articles to support Kanters’ position on tokens in the workplace. Bram A. Maravent’s article, “ Is the Rooney Rule Affirmative Action?
Jimmy Lynch December 8, 2009 ENG 370 Final Paper Self-Examination Outside of the Bubble I live in a bubble. This bubble has expanded as I have grown older, but it still shelters me from issues that many people outside my bubble struggle with on a daily basis. One of the issues that I have not even attempted to tackle is gay rights. Now, I don’t know any homosexuals and really have never taken a stance on any of the issues that are being argued about in courts throughout the country. Issues such as marriage and adoption for these same sex couples take up pages of newspapers and can be seen in some sense on almost every airway in both sitcoms and dramas.
(Nature vs. Nurture, 2006) The search for behavioral genes is the source of constant debate. Many fear that genetic arguments might be used to excuse criminal acts or justify divorce. The most debated issue is the existence of a "gay gene," which would in the eyes of the supporters of the nature debate say that this would help explains ones sexual orientation. Although it is possible
Robert LaBarge Rhetoric The Question of Sports Enhancing Drugs I believe that sports enhancing drugs like Anabolic steroids should be allowed in sports. To start, the term “steroids” is often misused and generalized as any performance enhancing drug, yet steroids are technically synthetic versions of hormones that your body produces naturally. Anabolic steroids are the class that gets all the negative attention. Anabolic steroids are made from the male sex hormone testosterone, which tells the body to increase muscle size and strength and helps to recover from workouts faster. When someone says the word “steroids” our head is bombarded with negative connotations of cheating and destruction of one’s body.
Roger Clemens is set to give congressional investigators a sworn deposition about his involvement with performance-enhancing drugs. Pettite already gave his deposition publicly admitting to receiving Human Growth Hormones in 2002. Most of the Mitchell report is on interviews, which cannot be concluded as true or false. No one would ever be able to know whether the 700 people that Mr. Mitchell interviewed are telling the truth or just trying to get their hands clean and get out of any disciplinary action towards them. It appears as though most sports enthusiasts are opposed to the use of steroids in sports due to the mass amounts of trials which have come about in recent years, however I think that steroids are not exactly hurting the game because the only ones they really hurt are the players in a medical sense.