• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Catherine Gacad

  • About
  • Categories
    • Archives
    • Blogging
    • Burning Man
    • City Guides
    • Education & Politics
    • Favorite Books
    • Finances & Retirement
    • Parenthood
    • Relationships
    • Religion
    • San Francisco Bay Area
    • Travel
  • Subscribe
    • Feedburner
    • Bloglovin
    • Feedly
  • Search

All Posts

I am Sexist

I am digging the Women’s World Cup, but wondering, where is the love? Bars and restaurants with TVs were drunk with excitement a year ago. North Beach became an early riser to host soccer fans all over San Francisco for pre-work games. The USA didn’t extend past the knockout stage, yet there was a fever in 2010 that isn’t here now. Ironically, USA is going to the finals. Let’s see some pandemonium!

I’ve never been that girl who cared about promoting women’s rights. Everyone’s got their challenges and we must rise through them. Whether you’re handicapped or dark-skinned or short or blind or illiterate. Make it happen, make life happen. Overcome. That’s been my motto.

But the Women’s World Cup makes me realize how sexist the world is. Does that mean we’ll go to our little boy’s soccer game, but not to our daughter’s? No! Yet we’re only watching men play baseball, basketball, football. We’ll only watch women glide on the ice, twirl on a balance beam, cheer for the men? I am guilty of it. I have played into these stereotypes and only recognizing it now. For shame.

USA vs Japan. I can’t think of a better game. My home country and my Asian sisters. Bring it!

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Related

07.10.11

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

Categories

  • Archives
  • Blogging
  • Burning Man
  • City Guides
  • Education & Politics
  • Favorite Books
  • Finances & Retirement
  • Parenthood
  • Relationships
  • Religion
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Travel

Popular Posts

  • RIP Todd Crockett
  • Help! I Don't Know How to Swim
  • Go Yale or Go Jail: How Did You Choose Your Child's Education?
  • Palm Reading
  • Three Announcements

Back to top

© 2019 Catherine Gacad.