Fighting Men and Fighting Women

Summary:
Looking for different ways to expand my essay I came across an article titled Fighting Men and Fighting Women. This article explained that boxing was traditionally a male sport. Men began boxing to show off their masculinity. Women were not even allowed to be spectators because it wasn't considered "lady like." However, some women don't like taking no for an answer and they convinced whoever was in charge of the fights to let them watch because they wanted to cheer the fighters on. Most of these women had no real interest in being cheerleaders but boxers instead. Soon enough, men allowed women to do a form of boxing referred to as sparring which is less aggressive. Of course, the majority of men were against this, arguing that boxing was a manly sport because of the physicality. As a result, they offered an alternative; gymnastics. Gymnastics would allow women to be healthy and not having to participate in a contact sport. Other options such as golf, tennis, croquet, and bicycling were later added.

Response:
I think that this would be a good article to use for my essay because it talks about some of the issues that I want to talk about; male superiority, boxing, and sexism. At first, females weren't even allowed to watch the sport. Now, it is arguable that some female boxers are better fighters than males. I think that the reason why men didn't want females to box was because women have to be pretty, being pretty doesn't involve being in a contact sport. That ties in perfectly with one of the points in my essay; femininity. Women can still look "pretty" and be "classy" while participating in a sport like gymnastics, boxing would do just the opposite.