n trivialize women symbolically. For example, College sport teams may name the male team tigers and the women’s team kittens. (Eitzen &Baca Zinn, 1989). This can coincide with the males being considered strong and the women being sexual. Roles were also mentioned as “society’s prescriptions for those of their gender status because the norms are expectations get built into their senses worth and identity as a certain kind of human being and because they believe that their society’s ways are the natural way.” (Lorber,1992, p.42). “Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl” was similar to the above to articles. It suggested how roles of society predict female and male roles. He referred to personal childhood memories. Reminiscing how while playing sports, his father, would encourage him to throw hard ball overhand. And how if he didn’t he was throwing like a girl. He would be teased and taunted by friends and family if he did not play the sport hard and rough, because that’s how boys do it. He also pointed out that his sister was more talented in sports than he but could not play. Basically, this authors position was traditional roles needs to be deleted with a new modern way of thinking. We know more now than we did when traditional male and female roles were established and we should all concur with the new age liberation and equality. (Messner, 1992)“ In A Male Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages” was an article that stressed how because female and male persons have different body types this is what predicted the roles that would follow. Males being strong and dominant in stance and female averaging to be smaller and more petite than men led society’s to think women were less capable. The authors position appears to be that because society think males are strong and women are weak this is indented into others positions and continues the cyc...
