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The pictures and dialogues above describe that Gracie subordinates from
the main team. In tryout Colasanti said, if anybody can make a score they will play in the main team but, in fact it do not happen to Gracie, whereas in tryout
Gracie made a score. Colasanti’s action to Gracie tries to eliminate her from the
main team and it happens because gender differences. Although Gracie has done
the right thing Colasanti sees that Gracie does nothing. Colasanti’s word junior varsity shows that he tries to put Gracie in the lowest place.
b. Stereotype In theoretical framework, stereotype is a mark or a label to certain group
or individual with negative or positive perspective. In western cultures, men are expected to be assertive, risk-taking, tough, unfeeling, insensitive, combative, the
owner or ruler of the home, meanwhile women are expected to be nurturers, caregivers, demure, polite, the family homemaker.
Sometimes these stereotypes give advantages to woman, but, mostly give disadvantages to woman. It proves when Gracie asks an access for girls in sport.
Connors and Kyle judge Gracie from the stereotype of woman, and it makes her so hard to get an access in football.
Figure 34 At the court
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Gracie : and finally, title IX of the federal mandate requires
access to sport for girls. Thank you.
Connie Bowsher : coach Connors, tell us what about title IX.
Connors : title IX means there is no money for girl’s soccer team
but there’s no interest
Connie Bowsher : why is that?
Connors : Soccer is not considered a girl’s sport. The girls I
know would rather watch it than play it.
Man : we offer girls’ gymnastics and field hockey any one of
them could use a skilled athlete like miss. Bowen.
Kyle : everyone would be afraid to play hard because they’ll
be worried about her breaking something or whining cause she’s bleeding. She can’t run as fast. She can’t
kick as hard. I don’t want to lose cause of her.
The conversations and the pictures describe that at the court when Gracie asks an access for girls in sport, many people comment that woman is a passive
creature and football not suitable for her. According to the theory that the
woman’s negative stereotype is passive, fragile, dependent, non-competitive,
receptive, afraid to the risk, emphatic, non aggressive, maternal, unambitious, emotionally labile, intuitive, having low pain, tolerance, sensitive to inner feeling
and to responses from other people.
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It makes Gracie is hard to get an access for girl in football team. Kyle’s word, she can’t run as fast. She can’t kick as hard,
shows that many people tend to see a woman from the negative stereotype of
woman.
The negative stereotype toward women makes them considered as weak
people. It means they have no same opportunity and same access like man in many areas. Stereotype also makes Gracie is considered as weak people by her
father, her father considered Gracie is a weak person, although he knows her
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daughter can play football, he realizes that this is football which need power and bravery to do it.
Figure 56 Showing the skills Gracie father
: I’m calling it Gracie. You can’t even beat him. And he
is not on the starting team
Gracie :
dad I can do this
Gracie’s father :
no, you can’t
Gracie :
yes I can
Gracie’s father :
it’s this simple. You are not tough enough. The conversations and pictures describes that Gracie shows her father that
she can play football as well as a man. But her father does not care what she has
done. Although her daughter can play football he judges Gracie from the negative stereotype
of woman which woman is weak and gentle. Her father says that Gracie is not strong enough to be a football player, it proves many parents in
certain culture and country considered woman is not suitable to be a football
player. The situation is experienced Gracie can be classified as gender discrimination
which is caused by the negative stereotype of woman.
c. Marginalization Marginalization
