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Column: Mainstream sports rhetoric limits female athletes

Column: Mainstream sports rhetoric limits female athletes

By Joanna Li | Senior Staff Writer

June 12, 2018

Filed under Sports, Sports Columns

“You play ball like a girl,” said “Ham” from “The Sandlot,” settling an intense roast battle against the baseball uniform-wearing rich kids with what seems to be the greatest insult one could possibly say to someone in 1962. But the insult is two-fold. Female athletes face a deep...

Tags: female athletes, feminism, gender roles, heteronormativity, heterosexism, like a girl, professional sports, women in sports

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