Kick Like A Girl Essay

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The documentary Kick like a girl just reinforced everything I have learn about in life. I have always viewed women as equal to men. Just like one of the mothers said in the documentary. When one of the boys hurt the girl and she was crying. And the boys parents said that if they are going to play with the boys then they have to handle the game being rough. And the girls mom responded by saying she can hang but only if it's not against the rules. I believe that the mood through the movie was the girls were suppose to fall to the boys. And yes, there were a few games were the girls lost. But overall, they had an impressive season. The entire time I was watching the documentary and listening to the boys comments and their parents comments. I could …show more content…

The parents themselves were installing these beliefs. By yelling at the boys saying their just a bunch of girls. And even when the girls would win. The boys parents would say that the boys just didn’t want to play rough and hurt the girls. Instead of teaching their children that girls can be just as good as boys if not better at a sport. They tried to install this belief that it wasn’t that you lost it was that you let them win you just didn’t know it. And it is sad that these parents were teaching their children this way. This is not the way that socialization is taught properly its handing down their kids wrong ignorant beliefs. There was even a grandpa in the movie that yelled at his grandkid for losing. Which only means that it was passed down to his son and now down to his …show more content…

And a die hard fan of Cristiano Ronaldo or better known as CR7. I play soccer every Sunday with my friends and even at times at sportsplex. I play with my nephews who are eleven and five. Just the other day I was playing soccer against my girlfriend and her sister. Against myself and my eleven year old nephew and we lost against them. After an intense 30 min round of world cup. And my nephew didn’t say one rude comment about losing to girls. Instead he commented that it was a good game. This just goes to show that he is being raised right and does not let gender influence his perspective. My son is four years old and he is really sensitive and shy but I will never condemn him for it. I tried putting him in soccer but he didn’t take to it at this time. However, there were little girls playing on the team he wouldve played on. Does that make him a coward because he is a boy and he is scared. While there are girls playing and they are girls? No, it's just a matter of whether it is for you or not. And as my son gets older he will understand that he should always treat women as equals. And this will be passed down to his children someday. That is how socialization is truly done. The reason that the girls did so well in their games is that they played like a team not a like a individual. And like the girls mentioned before they do recall one great soccer player that was boy. But he was a ball hog. Just like their coach said they are an efficient

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