I believe strongly that gender roles and stereotypes in athletics and sports are important. I think that certain sports like football, golf, soccer, rugby, hockey, and lacrosse should be played only by men while swimming, gymnastics, softball, cheerleading, and tennis should be reserved for women. The mixing of these two groups complicates the world of sports and causes confusion as to who should be playing who. I think rougher, more aggresssive sports should be left to men and women shouldn't really play contact sports, because it is well-know that women are feeble and fragile and more likely to get hurt.
In addition, I think that in the world of sports, there should be a don't-ask, don't-tell attitude. Athletes that are homosexual, bisexual, asexual, or transsexual should keep this fact to themselves and not let it interfere with the game iin which they play. For example, men who do participate in gymnastics are most-likely homosexual and therefore are stereotyped that way-but they do it to themselves! If they didn't want to be looked at in that light, they shouldn't be wearing those rediculous outfits! Likewise, female softball players are also stereotyped as being homosexual, but maybe it is because they are playing a sport that is framed off of a man's sport..??? They are often very fit, get dirty, run, sweat, and bleed during the game- that is NOT ladylike and women don't belong getting dirty like that. In my opinion, they are perfectly fine swimming skantily in a pool, dancing around in tight gymnastics outfits, or cheering on tough men with pom-poms in little skirts, but NOT on a field, in a stadium, or on a court. And God-forbid they break a sweat..
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