Tag Archive | movies
Weekend Links
Happy Friday! Here are some stories that we wanted to highlight for your weekend reading: Cheerleading used to be a men’s-only sport. Three U.S. Presidents were cheerleaders (Eisenhower, F. Roosevelt, Reagan) and in terms of masculinity, it was considered equivalent to playing football. Women didn’t start cheering until World War I, when men were deployed [...]
“The Hunger Games” and Positive Female Athleticism
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past three months or so, you know that the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, a novel by Suzanne Collins, opened today (with midnight showings all over the country.) I was lucky enough to attend a preview screening of the movie on Thursday evening, and in [...]
