This may be a surprise since the youth bat barrels have the same diameter as softball bats. The table at right shows the range of weights for each type of bat. I can’t think of any good reason why women don’t play baseball. They can just sign up with their local women’s baseball league and…umm…oh yeah. These "bottle bats" have a very short taper region and are designed to provide a larger hitting area and to allow a hitter to make better contact with the ball for inside pitches. Baseball and softball are two similar but different sports. The most obvious difference between youth bats, softball bats, and baseball bats is length. Get over yourself. Weir challenges the hegemonic norm of what we expect to see when we watch a male figure skater perform and so our way to cope with it is to question his sexuality. I don’t understand why you think I’m such a terrible person for not getting this. The fact that I am totally confused that women are shunted away from a sport and forced to play a different one in NO FREAKING WAY implies that I belittle women athletes.
She was amazingly gifted and one of the best players that had ever been on that team—boy or girl. Women playing softball instead of baseball is a very recent change in the game.
But , you know….wtf is the point to this place? So you finally got it and made a coherent post that could have been the start of an interesting discussion. What is the infield fly rule and why do they have it?
The primary reason is almost certainly that Major League Baseball has no interest in diluting its enormous revenue stream. Please try again. You just keep ranting. Sorry I got all uppity. This ability is something very exclusively male and by using the terms hard and soft, one without consciously being aware, is bringing in gender into the conversation. I can’t wait to share this with her team and coaches. It was meant to be played indoors and was easier than baseball Baseball was reserved for the more serious athletes, both male and female until 1952. I can tell you I can hit and throw a baseball a LOT further than a softball. Don’t rock the boat. Yes, but did you understand it?
This is similar to the stereotypes within softball because the visual and physical indication of what is masculine and feminine is what determines how society perceives someone. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.
This is also the reason that up until 10-15 years ago, most high schools and junior high/middle schools, as well as Little league played slow pitch. What’s very important to remember is that almost all of these opportunities will fall into two groups. Start to play just plain old basketball. The dues would go toward softball equipment, grounds maintenance, and of course, the club’s liquor license. Women still play regular old basketball. Which Slogan In Tampa Bay Rays History Is Damn Good? What’s wrong with softball? I don’t see it as an inequality at all. Start to play just plain old basketball. My daughter plays softball and there’s nothing casual about the sport at all. “Reflections on Communication and Sport: On Women and femininities.” Communication and Sport. • The pitchers would have to have one heck of an arsenal of sliders, change ups, and curve balls because if they can’t get the pitch speed over 65 mph the batters will be swatting more balls than the slave was getting swatted by her dom in a B&D festival. Here, I’ll share the link again.
She makes the team—JV, but that’s not bad, considering that she’s physically smaller than most of the boys and wasn’t really expected to pull her weight. This IS a political discussion about women, @josie . You draw upon an impressive array of sources, and have enough here to develop the ideas even further if you wished. Quiz finished his career with 244 saves out of 674 relief appearances, and an ERA of 2.55. This is highly recognizable because a woman who portrays the slightest bit of masculinity, is in turn contrasting femininity and the socially acceptable ideas of what a woman does. Masculinity and femininity are terms that can’t be defined withoutreferencing the other. Why is baseball the only sport that shunts women off—not just into a separate league, but a whole separate sport? Women who want to play hockey play hockey. Elsewhere on my website I will discuss the physics behind the trampoline effect in greater detail. She doesn’t show the intense side of the game but just sits and smiles on top of a pile of softballs. It was invented in 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, United Statesas an indoor game. Why are most of the good scholarships for baseball instead of softball? By the same token, I don't think NHL players would be able to beat elite ringette players at their game, nor pro lacrosse players against the best of the NCAA ladies.
It wasn’t always this way.
1973 women stop playing women’s basketball. @jonsblond—about your link, tl;dr. Zzzzzz. But there are more than a few women who are hardcore athletes who are able and willing to play baseball.
Or is it something that came to be because of a physical aspect of the object? The point is, Women who want to play ringette play ringette. You know, because it’s totally cool to drag stuff out of Facebook into here.
However, to counteract this aspect, the guys perform their masculinity.
We were strongly discouraged from doing a LOT of things in MS and High School.