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(Looking at how women and basketball are represented in the media, we see players and player's wives - or WAGs. Since mainstream media has struggled with an effective way to portray female athletes, guess which group gets the star treatment more often? As part of a viritual exhibition examining sports, film, TV and celebrities, blogger Shana Stephenson takes a look at the VH1 series "Basketball Wives" as well as the film "Love & Basketball" to see how women are portrayed in the context of basketball. ~js)
Stephenson writes:
Female athletes possessing a physique that is considered to be more masculine, muscular, or athletic than other female celebrities, or watching women exert excessive amounts of energy while engaging in sweat inducing activities has yet to be considered the norm. As such, mainstream media has failed to identify an effective way to portray female athletes short of having them strip down and bare their bodies...
...As long as the media continues to spoon-feed stereotypical images of women while ignoring the antithesis of the “norm”, millions of young impressionable girls who struggle with a lack of self-worth will continue to misplace value on what’s important.
