(1) As Anthamatten explains it, the concept of “throwing like a girl” refers to “the situation of women as conditioned by their sexist oppression in contemporary society.” What does this mean?
(2) Why is "throwing like a girl" used as an insult to boys? What does it tell us about the norms of masculinity?
(3) Give an example of gendered differences in “bodily comportment, motility, and spatiality” outside of sports.
(4) Given that the athletic skills needed to compete at the collegiate or professional levels are so rare—very few people, men or women, possess such skills—why do we assume that sports are the natural activity of boys and men?
(5) Another institution that is regarded as highly masculine is the military. How does gendered embodiment compare in sports and the military? Are the arguments against women in sports the same or different from the arguments about women in the military?
(6) If you were going to put together an NCAA campaign to encourage women to play sports as a measure of equality—that girls and boys alike should regard “embodiment as a source of freedom, not incarceration, a source of pride, not shame”—how would you challenge the notion of “throwing like a girl”?