For my Summary/Analysis/Response paper, I used an article that discussed the message that sports films reflect about female athletes. The article claimed that sports films project a negative attitude towards women who participate in sports. One of the movies it used to support the claim was A League of Their Own. I decided to rewatch the movie because it had been forever since I had seen it, and it would help me be able to talk more about it in my paper. In the movie, a group of women join a baseball team to play on during the time of war. The women were not treated the same as male athletes though. Their uniforms were short pink skirts, and they were expected to look as pretty on the field as they did off. Male baseball players were not required to have sex appeal or intrigue the fans by their good looks. People had come from all around to see men play purely for their talents, but people came to watch the women as sex objects. Fans whistled and hollered at them from the stands, something they would never do towards male players.
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