Kick Like A Girl Essay

The documentary Kick like a girl just reinforced everything I have learn about in life. I have always viewed women as equal to men. Just like one of the mothers said in the documentary. When one of the boys hurt the girl and she was crying. And the boys parents said that if they are going to play with the boys then they have to handle the game being rough. And the girls mom responded by saying she can hang but only if it's not against the rules. I believe that the mood through the movie was the girls were suppose to fall to the boys. And yes, there were a few games were the girls lost. But overall, they had an impressive season. The entire time I was watching the documentary and listening to the boys comments and their parents comments. I could

help but think about how socialization came into effect in their lives. It is no wonder that the boys were thinking they were going to crush them and that it would be easy.

The parents themselves were installing these beliefs. By yelling at the boys saying their just a bunch of girls. And even when the girls would win. The boys parents would say that the boys just didn’t want to play rough and hurt the girls. Instead of teaching their children that girls can be just as good as boys if not better at a sport. They tried to install this belief that it wasn’t that you lost it was that you let them win you just didn’t know it. And it is sad that these parents were teaching their children this way. This is not the way that socialization is taught properly its handing down their kids wrong ignorant beliefs. There was even a grandpa in the movie that yelled at his grandkid for losing. Which only means that it was passed down to his son and now down to his

grandchild.
I for one love soccer.

And a die hard fan of Cristiano Ronaldo or better known as CR7. I play soccer every Sunday with my friends and even at times at sportsplex. I play with my nephews who are eleven and five. Just the other day I was playing soccer against my girlfriend and her sister. Against myself and my eleven year old nephew and we lost against them. After an intense 30 min round of world cup. And my nephew didn’t say one rude comment about losing to girls. Instead he commented that it was a good game. This just goes to show that he is being raised right and does not let gender influence his perspective. My son is four years old and he is really sensitive and shy but I will never condemn him for it. I tried putting him in soccer but he didn’t take to it at this time. However, there were little girls playing on the team he wouldve played on. Does that make him a coward because he is a boy and he is scared. While there are girls playing and they are girls? No, it's just a matter of whether it is for you or not. And as my son gets older he will understand that he should always treat women as equals. And this will be passed down to his children someday. That is how socialization is truly done. The reason that the girls did so well in their games is that they played like a team not a like a individual. And like the girls mentioned before they do recall one great soccer player that was boy. But he was a ball hog. Just like their coach said they are an efficient

team.
In the article If Our Sons Were Treated like Our Daughters. I noticed that I could relate to some things in the article. Growing I always felt like I needed to look clean cut and be properly groomed. I remember once as a teenager when I was 19 I was the eyebrow salon. Getting my eyebrows threaded with my mom. And this man was with his girlfriend and the girls mom said hey he is getting his eyebrows done why don’t you? To the mean. To which he replied that he was not a woman. And they both gave him a dirty look and laughed. I for one did not feel any less of a man. I was in college getting good grades and had a job. Not to mention I was raising my son. Immediately I thought about how he was raised and why he thought it was appropriate to say that. But growing up I can only assume that his socialization involved him being rough and rough looking. However, my mom never set limits as to what was boyish and girly. For example when I was younger I didn’t play sports but I liked going shopping. In the article it mentions the boy wanting to play with "girl" toys. My son Luciano has always played with toys that he likes. I don’t like telling him what to like and what not to like. Just this past year In December I bought my son kitchen utensils that had girls as the advertisement on it. And he was pretending to cook. He even has his collection of Minnie toys and he even went through his Dora phase. I don’t find this odd at all. Nor will I ever yell at him and say he shouldn’t play with that.

The documentary that we watched they had the girls raised in a mindset that you can do you anything that you set your mind too. And in the article If our Sons Were Treated Like Our Daughters they are raised in a mindset that is more "girly". I feel that in todays society we advocate roles in gender and the importance of it. Instead of teaching them that anyone can like anything that they like, and that everyone is equal to you because we are all human. Todays socialization is promoting stereotypes and gender inequalities. And making things like the glass ceiling real. If I learned anything in life it's that we are all equal. And it doesn't matter if you like cooking or boxing. The fact of the matter is that you need to be true to yourself.