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Marc Treat
What is being man like?
You take a look into the world of sports and into the world of school and all those
sorts of things, and what do you see? You would normally see men dominating the sports
world, and being the tough guys of the world, and then you would see the women being
the smarty pants, the only human beings that have feelings and can actually cry in front
of others. Why is it that normally the women are smarter then guys and that guys are
more athletic than women? You will dive deep down into what I have to say about this
and maybe you’ll find some gold at the bottom of the ocean on why these are problems in
today’s society or aren’t they?
When you are watching television and you see the WNBA or any women sport
being advertised a little bit here, and then you turn the channel and the NBA has their
own show that lasts an hour about all the teams that should be in the playoffs and that
which teams will make the biggest impression. Why Is that? Women athletics do not
attract as many fans as the men do in almost any sport. For some reason the men are
always dominating in the money that they make and the attendance that comes to those
games. One reason for all of this so far is because the men are getting paid more because
they bring in more money from the fans support and the women aren’t bringing in as
much as they should. “Men are just way more exciting to watch!” (Ron Jaoworski, ESPN
analyst) Some women out there wish that they could play football without being
criticized, and there are some guys that do cheerlead and they take crap for it but do they
care? NO! My sister used to play football in 8th grade and she was one of the better ones
on the team. Everyday she would receive letters in her locker about how girls don’t
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deserve to play football and all that. I can see why they would think that way because she
is better then them but they were just saying that because she was a girl, and the coach
told her that “you can be on the team, but I can determine if you play or not”. That got to
her and she ended up quitting because she couldn’t take it. Coming from a football player
I do not think that it’s right to talk to a girl like that who is better then half of the guys out
there. I was at a MSU football game once and I saw a lot of guy cheerleaders who were
built even bigger than some of the football players. They are the ones that lift up the girls
when they are doing their stunts in the air and the girls couldn’t do it themselves. “Guys
only cheerlead when they figure out they can’t play football”. (John Davis, CBS sports
line analyst). Sometimes you may walk down the street and see a fight that is breaking
out and a guy gets punched in the nose and kind of backs away because he doesn’t want
to get hit anymore. The opposing fighter yells to him “Come on take it like a man, don’t
act like a girl”. Why is it bad for a guy to back down from a fight, and why does he have
to be called a girl for it. There are girls out there that can fight and they don’t back down.
That is what’s wrong with this world is that too many things relate back to either being a
girl or stop acting like that be a man. Studies have shown that when it comes to fighting
men are more likely to do that then woman. 59% of fights that occur in this world involve
men and 41% involve women. Men and women are known to do there own things
whether its playing football for example or cheerleading and even fighting. Men are more
likely to play football and make more money then do the women who are known to
cheerlead and not make as much money.
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“Come on you girl” what are you trying to say?. Are you saying that he’s a girl
because he didn’t go up and grab that ball out of the air, or are you talking about let’s go
you play like a girl you are not brave and you are not tough. In our society women are
looked over as being strong and active. Yeah women don’t play football and yeah women
don’t make as much money but I can tell you that there are women out there that can play
if they wanted to. I know a girl by the name of Katie Riggs. She played football with me
when I was still pretty young and she laid a guy out and broke his chin strap. Now what
do you say about that? There are girls out there that can play the game whether or not
they do. That saying is something that I say sometimes but I shouldn’t because that’s the
truth. There are also girls that are in the marines and the air force and all that, that are
fighting for my country and there is men that are sitting back not doing much about it.
There are times when girls are brave and tough but most of the time it’s the other way
around. All in all you will agree with me that most of the time you will find that men are
stringer and more brave than women but that does not mean that there are no woman out
there that aren’t brave and or tough.
Girls, I know that there are some of you out there that have boyfriends that can
cry in front of you and can show their emotions happy or sad. It seems like most of the
woman like that from there boyfriends then having the guys keep it inside and not telling
you about them. According to Paul Theroux “Being a Man” Paul said that being a man
means be stupid, be unfeeling, and obedient. Why is it that men always have to act
strongly and manly when the women are the ones who should act all nice and have
feelings. Not all men are like this. Many girls do not like this in their man because then
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they cannot communicate as much as a relationship should have. On the other hand
according to Amy Gross writing “The Appeal of the Androgynous Man” Amy says that
an Androgynous man always does the things that women enjoy or would like them to do
such as shopping at the super center and not just buying a 6-pack of beer and pretzels for
the football game. The difference between a man and an Androgynous man is that a man
is the one who does not have feelings and that always cares about himself and not the
relationship he’s in or anything like that. The Androgynous man is always on top of
things with his relationship. He shows his feelings with his significant other and he also
tells her how he feels. He actually shops for food and not just a 6-pack of Bud light and
gets vegetables instead of pretzels for the football game.
Looking back now at what I was talking about with the whole being a man and all
men make more money then the women athletes do is all things in the society that adds
up. Androgynous men are more caring and actually have feelings not that being a regular
man doesn’t have feelings but they show them more and they are more sensitive towards
woman then the regular so called “MAN”.
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