History of Feminism

Also like how it begins with sports and uses those examples for how women must navigate a world in which they are invisible.

I have heard, over and over again from sports commentators (ESPN especially) that women's stats cannot be compared to those of male athletes because the competition in women's sports is so inferior. This is driven home especially when sports commentators ridicule the WNBA, pretty much stating they'd rather watch paint dry. Even the best woman basketball player in the world, they contend, couldn't make an NBA roster. Could an Abby Wambach have made an MLS team? Could a Venus Williams go head to head against Rafael Nadal? You get the picture -- the argument is always the same.

Perhaps the detractors have a debatable point though outside the world of sports, skills still come with that qualifier of gender. The one that places women at a starting line of suspicion and runs a course through hurdles of resentment and dismissal. Those who cross the finish line cannot expect to be met with a crown of laurel leaves but catcalls of, "yes she won the race but..."