There was a great discussion between several of the Softball commentators, one of them a high profile US Medalist from the past, about a specific Olympics, I think in the mid 90s, that they viewed as the year women’s athletics really blossomed from the seeds first sewn by the passage of Title IX in I thin 1972. In that Olympics women basketball, softball, soccer and maybe a few other sports really shone. One of them talked about how when she was a girl she never saw any role models for being an athlete, and in the current Olympics there were several women athletes whose mothers had been Olympians.
I remember the many arguments over Title IX over the years, but by now it is clear just how needed and successful that has been. On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 7:05 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:11 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Saw this on Twitter from CBC. Related to the other thread on this list, >> which I can't reply to at this moment. >> >> >> https://twitter.com/CBCTheNational/status/1420440005898641412?s=20 >> > > I can imagine sports and TV executives seeing the rise of womens' sports > following Title IX and deciding the only way it would be viable for the > sports watching audience of the time would be to play up the sexiness and > use that to sell it. When the first Womens World Cup was broadcast in the > 90s there was a ton of commentary about how popular it was with little > girls and mothers really wanted their daughters to see the competition. > Those little girls have grown up and have replaced or outnumbered the men > who need something to stare at in order to watch. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHFru_bG6poDnVCuLa_jzTns9RMSmt7w_Ky03V5dQbBjQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHFru_bG6poDnVCuLa_jzTns9RMSmt7w_Ky03V5dQbBjQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKm3YKdJfU2Q-%3D_WKDjAv-CH01_h4y-8Yx1d%3DxcRp%2BGbQ%40mail.gmail.com.
