UConn Women's Win Streak Coverage and Male Dominance

In Mary Hardin's post about the UConn girls basketball winstreak and the coverage it recieved, she talks about how women's sports go unseen and unappreciated by the media and sports followers. She also talks about how media coverage is dominated by men's sports and how the UConn story was mainly being covered because they were about to break a men's record. She explains that many people go on to blame the media for exercising these gender stereotypes and she agrees with them. She agrees that the media are the people who put out the coverage and because of male power and dominance in the sports world since it all began that it is hard to change how things have always been for the media and that men's sports are covered a ton more than womens. She goes on the express that the media coverage swing to covering more women's sports and achievements wont start with the media it will start with the women themselves and breaking more mens records and accomplishing great feats. I think that this post relates back to our reading of Center Snap by Messner. He explains that the parents of the kids at the soccer ceremony all think that their boys and girls are so different because the girls are simply drawing attention to themselves by singing a barbie song and doing "girl" things and the boys end up showing gender roles by dominating them and taking over there space and yelling at them until the parents have to split them up. I think this ties into Marie's post because male sports are dominating the media and the female sports are simply just doing "girl" things and they arent interesting enough to get the attention of male sports. On a personal note I think that women's sports today deserve more media coverage. Their games are just as interesting and some of the things they do are just as interesting to watch as men's sports. I thought the UConn run to the overall win streak was amazing and deserved to be followed since they had one fifty straight. I still believe that we need to praise what they did a lot more than we are. I mean the way competition is now their new record will probably stand for a long time and it deserves the same amount of attention as if a men's team would of broken it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNtImLkTGOs