The Ignored Wall: Sexual segregation in professional sports

Hello people of the internet! Team USA's success in the world cup has gotten the whole country abuzz with soccer fever, it's even gotten me hooked and I usually turn my brain off concerning anything sports related! But this tournament has not only awakened the sports fan inside me but opened my eyes to an issue I have never really noticed before: The sexuall segregation in sports and why we don't seem to care about it.

Even though people in our country have fought, sacrificed, and literally died to make sure no one is discriminated or denied something just because of their race, gender, sex, or religion the NFL,NBA, and NL have a strong barrier between blue and pink with no spots of lavender. And even though the matter of gender equality has been a hot button issue in the US since the days of corsets and bloomers I have yet to hear any real protest about this.

Now to be clear there is no rules in sports saying a woman can't play on mens team but the number of woman who actually do are close to none. A search around the internet hinted that the reasons these numbers are so small is that the thriving belief that woman are physically inferior to men. And while I do see the worry, especially in high contact sports like football, but woman have proven they can take a hit.

All over the country and the world woman are police officers, firefighters, soldiers and other jobs that were thought to be too hard for them. And really in most sports the deciding factor between victory and defeat doesn't really come down to how big you are but to your endurance and skills and their are skilled female players out there.

We have demanded that men and woman be on an equal field so shouldn't we at least ask that they also be seen as equals on the playing field?