Entry #6

I was interested in the topic because I had always heard little surface pieces about Title IX when I was playing sports in High School. A mom of one of my old teammates was adamant about Title IX and I remember it being brought up sometimes. It triggered other thoughts about Title IX and I started to think about what sports were like when I was growing up, and how I played on the boys' baseball teams because there weren't any girls teams that were competitive enough and available for me. My topic started out being a lot about how it helped girls athletics improve. I kind of had this vision that everything was so much better than it was. When I read some of the research and started learning about how Title IX still needs to be worked on and implemented better into athletics it got a little bit more interesting. 

I really liked researching for my counter-argument paper, because this is when I read about things that I had no idea before. I found some racial issues with Title IX that were a little unexpected but that made them interesting to me. Also, how women had to assimilate to a "man's" game was a new fact that I found. I also didn't realize the impact it had on men's sports teams. The research I found at first was different than my assumptions that I started with. I had this very false assumption that Title IX did no harm and helped give money to girls programs in some magical way that did not affect other people as much as it did.

My topic matters because gender equality is important and in athletics it is not achieved. The opportunities should be fair for men and women, so they both have the great opportunity to compete in something they love doing.