Post On Gender Roles

I read this article about gender roles recently.  The article is about the sport rugby.  Rugby is conventionally thought of as being a very manly sport.  A group of women have started playing rugby for San Jose State University.  They say that it is a sport equally fit for women and that they have plenty of fun playing it.  They always go home respecting the other team, and even men sometimes come to watch their games.  Even though this is in America where women have more rights than most countries, it still reminded me of Codi in Animal Dreams.  The stories are kind of opposite tales.  Codi, being a woman, could not find it in her to pass the boards and finally become a doctor.  The women on the Rugby however, found a way to rise above gender expectations and make their own sports team.  I think men would not make such a big deal of feminism if women would undertake more and complain less.  DeBolt, Daniel.  "Rugby women not afraid to get dirty." Spartan Daily.  29 April 2004.  10 February 2009< http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2004/04/29/Sports/Rugby.Women.Not.Afraid.To.Get.Dirty-1498903.shtml>.