CRJ #4

CRJ #4
Are men overall predominantly stronger than women? The “answers” are everywhere, or at least what our society thinks are the answers to that question. When it comes to which gender is preferred over another, is it male or female? Our society would also agree that being a male is much more preferred, because you have more respect, you aren’t a sissy, and you have more opportunities. But does all this apply anymore? Are women still the weaker, less respected gender? Specifically, when it comes to sports, are men better than women?
When it comes to men and women athletes, men are always looked at as better. Though at first glance, every observation points at that answer, the further you look into it, the more you begin to see that that is not at all true. Being a female student athlete myself, I know the things people say about women and sports: “Men are better athletes.” “A girl could never play that.” Or “ Oh, it’s because she’s a girl.” To be honest, it gets rather annoying to hear those things come out of peoples’ mouths. I do not at all believe that women are worse athletes than men. Though there are some sports that women do not play, I believe that a woman could do and succeed in any sport she wanted to.
There is recent evidence out that suggests that one day in the future, women will surpass men in sports. These conclusions, that are told in Nelson’s writing, are based upon the statistics that women are increasingly improving times and stats and men have come to a level in which they are not improving at as fast a rate. These findings are due to many things. Nelson points out that women did not start competing in sports are early as men did. We are relatively new to the athletic world, therefore, have not had as much time to train, get the technique, or get in the kind of shape we need to be in, as Nelson points out with her story about the Lanes in swimming. There are already stats out that show that women are better at marathon events and other events that do not require upper body strength. As time goes on though, women will get better and better at each sport we play and someday, maybe we will be respected as the individual athlete that we are instead of whether we are male or female.