Female Sports Women Are Marked

Many women have portrayed their extraordinary prowess to the world by achieving their goals, yet they go unnoticed. For instance, there is a woman in Australia named Elise Kellond- she won the World cup Football (soccer) All-Stars team in 2011, yet many Australians don't even know who she is. What's the point of winning the World cup when the world, let alone your home country does not even recognize you for your achievement. 

Most of us have heard and seen amazing sport accomplishments made by players all around the world. These players (both men and women) strive to reach the top of the ladder with great success stories, yet why is it that ~eighty percent of people devote their conversations to men's sports only?

 In an article written by Nikola Gow she also questions this issue in Australia and hypothesizes that "This could be due to the sexism of those running media outlets, women’s sport being less popular or the lack of financial gain for the media in promoting it." 

This issue relates to There Is No Unmarked Woman by Deborah Tannen, as she claims how women have become "marked." Though Kellond was given a chance and actually did get to live her dream, she did not become that popular in the media. This is probably because she is a female and is therefore marked in some sort of way to not associate herself to sports. I really hope it doesn't come to the point where female players must disguise themselves as a guy, like Viola from She's The Man and join an all guys soccer team to prove how good they are and finally get noticed (though that would be pretty amusing to see).