Comments on: She’s Having a Ball http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Sun, 19 May 2013 03:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zippa http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-14039 Zippa Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:23:16 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=9845#comment-14039 Oh, no, I definitely agree, but I wanted to give her a moment of unadulterated pride. I think that’s at least as important for her as addressing the other issues at hand. Does that make sense, or am I spouting nonsense again?

]]> By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-14028 sarah.of.a.lesser.god Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:27:35 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=9845#comment-14028 @Hill Rat: That’s really an excellent point. It’s a bit like women’s colleges vs. co-ed colleges. Would admitting more girls into the LLWS exacerbate the lack of attention on female sports leagues, or would it demonstrate the abilities girl/women athletes and thus increase the attention paid to women’s sports? (Obviously, I don’t have the answer.)

]]> By: Hill Rat http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-14027 Hill Rat Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:53:31 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=9845#comment-14027 I wonder how the fact that all of the teams competing are all-star teams affects the number of girls participating?

It’s not tough to imagine a scenario where high-performing girls that play ball are recruited/lured/encouraged to move over to softball. Even if a girl is the best player on her team, she may have trouble with the boys if the coach is a douche and encourages dudely behavior that marginalizes her. There could be structural barriers to participation too whereby the organizing body enforces gender segregation after a certain age. All kids play rugby together until the age of 11 and then they separate the boys and the girls.

]]> By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-14026 sarah.of.a.lesser.god Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:48:45 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=9845#comment-14026 Zippa, I think you can be very, very happy for Katie Reyes while simultaneously recognizing how far things have to go for girls and women in sports. Watching the video of her put a huge smile on my face.

]]> By: Zippa http://www.harpyness.com/2009/08/28/shes-having-a-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-14020 Zippa Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:48:10 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=9845#comment-14020 I am, for the moment at least, happy enough that she did it that I’m temporarily ignoring the disproportionate ratios in the league.

I will certainly pounce on that later. But for now I want to focus on being happy for her. It’s a conscious decision.

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