3/25/26

  • Title IX

  • WNBA Viewership

    • people don’t want to watch womens basketball counter arguement

      • they are not covered on primetime networks, if the coverage isnt equal you cant make the meangiful comparison

      • the NBA is more in the culture because the WNBA was created much later than the NBA

      • the storytelling is alot in the NBA

  • Womens sport media

    • womens sports are severely under represented in sprots coverge of women athletes only 5.4% of all airtime

    • 86.7% of all articles focus on mens sports and 5.2% focus on womens sports

  • Womans sports viewership-MNBA

    • aussption- less compelling women inferior, less dunking

    • argument- does dunking really matter?, lack of investment by media, less embedded in culture, less visibility( women athletes, time slots and channels, less writiers)

    • we cant know until it is equal

  • Recommendations

    • equal coverage

    • advanced state

    • pregame post game coverage

    • storytelling sells the game

  • Key concepts

    • sport-where boys formally learn:

      • violence & aggression to “motivate

      • sexual 7 gendered language to control

        • femophobia

        • homohysteria-heterosexual men’s fear of being publicly homosexualized

      • hegemoic masculinity-legitimzes mens dominant position in society