The Importance Of Sexism In My Life

All my life, I been asked what I wanted to be when I grow older because I was seen as a gifted child who could do some good in this world and my answers have usually been gratefully influenced by with sexist comments, perceived roles, and peers who believed for the most part that I don’t have the ability amount to the same greatness my male counterparts. I grew up sort of reserved from social issues such as sexism because I watched as my mother take on gender roles head first and become the opposite of a “good housewife.” I learned about what females were “supposed” to be interested in as they grew older and what their perceived stereotypes were because they ended up being influential on grades and myself. And finally after eighteen years of

I’ve always been infatuated with the sport, since my family has season tickets to the Houston Texans, so I grew up in a household that would pick tailgating over church every Sunday. My father was more than ecstatic to explain to me the rules and positions of the game and answered every question I had (and still does). Since I was in marching band growing up, I had to go to every varsity football game and perform at halftime. I played flute, which is seen as a feminine instrument because it has a higher pitch range, so most of the people in my section were girls. I was the only one who really knew what was going happening on the field, so I enjoyed the games a lot more than my friends did. I tried really hard to fit in with the boys in the band by talking about football but they would question my limited knowledge on football trivial facts, like “who won the forty-second Super bowl and with what play did they use to score the second touchdown in the third quarter?” and such like that, because a girl who should care more about what Kim Kardashian is doing in her life than trying to join a Fantasy Football league. But something was different about how these guys approached saying I should be involved with more feminine activities. Instead of talking about women in general (“Girls should focus more on English and history”) they were talking directly to me, because I just chose to learn and understand a sport that’s masculine and widely popular. I kept wondering why men felt threatened by a woman showing an interest in things that is usually male dominated. Everything concerning football was played by a man except for cheerleaders, and I did not have an interest in cheer at all. Because of them saying directly to me “go watch E! News instead of Fox sports” and finally finding out I had something in comment with my father, I wanted to know more about football and I really