No Girls Allowed On The Ice

Have you ever seen the television show Sister, Sister? It's an older television show about two twin girls, Tia and Tamara, who up until their teen years, never knew the other existed until they accidently ran into one another in a fitting room at the mall. After meeting, they bring Tia's dad and Tamara's mom together into one household where the four of them all live together and the twins go to the same school and spend nearly every second with one another. I saw an episode of the show recently where gender was quite obviously an issue. In this episode, Tamara had her eyes set on a boy, which she usually does, who was on the ice hockey team. Tamara was at the ice rink all of the time in a cute little purple ice skating outfit. She looked like the typical girl that was trying to impress any boy. In the mean time, Tia was on the ice in sweats and was ready to practice with the ice hockey team but the boys on the team were quick to deny her membership of the team due to the fact that she was a girl. Extremely unhappy with what he had said to her, she quickly put her mind to work, figuring out how she could make him see that girls were just as good as boys. Tia came up with a plan to dress up as a boy to show the boys on the team that she could play hockey just as well as them, and she forced Tamara to play along too even though she didn't want to. At the next practice, Tia and Tamara showed up as two funny looking Canadian males who were ready to hit the ice. The boys of the team welcomed them with open arms and told them to show them what they were made of. The coach sent them into the male fitting room where Tamara heard some things that got her fired up. The boy she had her eyes set on, who had been so sweet to her, had started talking about how she was eating out of his hand and he could get anything he wanted from her. He said as soon as he was done getting what he wanted from her, she would be kicked to the curb. Extremely upset, Tia and Tamara looked at each other and were ready to go show the boys how it was really done. Once on the ice, Tia and Tamara took control, playing hockey like the boys had never seen before, even knocking some of the boys off of their feet. After the practice was over the girls stopped and looked at the boys and asked what they thought and they responded with "...yeah you're good. You're great." Once hearing that, the girls revealed their secret to the boys and said "But not for girls, right?" They threw their helmets at the boys and danced around having their own party because they had shown up the boys. They skated away leaving the boys in embarrassment. I'm so glad that this episode was made. It's a very good example of girls sticking up for themselves and showing young girls that they should never look down upon themselves or feel as if they can't do certain things because the boys say they can't. Girls can do anything they want, sometimes better than the boys.

Wanted

Over the weekend I saw the movie Wanted. This was a great movie with lots of action and excitement in it. Something that I quickly noticed however, was that there was only one female character that had a main part or that even stands out in my mind at all. I don't remember seeing a single other female during the entire two hour film. And although this character was a female, the last word I would use to describe her character would be "girly" or "feminine". This character had tattoos all over her body, not necessarily giving her a manly look, but it's not exactly a feminine way to keep a woman's body. Also, this female character did not hold back when it came to hanging out with the guys. She did everything, in fact, she did more, than all of the males in this movie. She ran most of everything that happened. She gave orders and shot guns. Killed people and lied. She did everything that stereotypically a male character should have been doing. I found it very interesting to see that this was a female character instead of a male. She made all of the big decisions in the movie and made sure everyone followed them. It's sad that our world has come to a point where we expect to see the male figure making decisions and giving orders.