For those of us who are unfamiliar with Marion Jones story, “on Jan. 11, 2008, Olympic gold medal winner Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to perform 800 hours of community service after she pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and her connection to a check-fraud case.” More recently Marion has expressed interest in joining the WNBA, having resurfaced in the media recently she opened herself up to criticism from her past. George Lopez mocks Marion for being manly enough to play in the NBA but quickly makes a comment about how she could only play for a team whose record is less then respectable this season. Previous to the course I don’t think that I would have paid very much attention or even gone to look up and find out who Marion Jones was but I felt that the joke pointed out the popular notion among society that women are still inferior to men in the sporting world and also provided commentary on how women athletes are viewed as too masculine because of their physical appearances.
Christina Lisk
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