In 2008, the first black president was elected in the United States, but in the same year, according to the FBI website, There were approximately 5,600 hate crimes classified as race and ethnicity crimes reported to police. There were three female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in 2010, but in the same year, full-time working women earned just 77 cents for every dollar a man earned. In 2009, there were more than 750 billionaires, but it was also the highest unemployment rate in thirty years. Young, educated Americans are more accepting of gays and lesbians than just a few years ago, but there are still massive numbers of people who oppose same-sex marriage. There are far more federal laws than ever before to protect people with disabilities from employment discrimination, but nearly 26,000 employment discrimination complaints have been filed according to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. of employment in 2013 by people with disabilities. It was on a gloomy afternoon that my friend and I were on the phone talking about how our day was going. I complained to her about the fact that exam week was almost here and there was so much to do with so little time. She, on the other hand, had an interesting story to tell that day and thought it fit well with the topic assigned to my group. She said it was a warm, sunny day to run a mile for a fitness test. They had to run four, two hundred yards to equal one mile. As she ran, the coach constantly yelled and accused her of cheating to complete the mile. She also said the coach did not yell at the girls who kept walking to complete the mile. I then asked him if the coach was...... middle of paper... uh, DL (2006). Girlie Girls and Manly Men: Children's awareness of gender stigma in sports and physical activities. Journal Of Leisure Research, 38(4), 536-557. Fagrell, B., Larsson, H. and Redelius, K. (2012). The game within the game: the underperforming position of girls in physical education. Gender and Education, 24(1), 101-118. doi:10.1080/09540253.2011.582032Voss, LD, Hosking, JJ, Metcalf, BS, Jeffery, AN, & Wilkin, TJ (2008). Children from low-income families have less access to sports facilities, but are no less physically active: cross-sectional study (EarlyBird 35). Child: Care, Health and Development, 34(4), 470-474. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00827.xAnderson, E. (2011). Masculinities and sexualities in sport and physical cultures: three decades of evolving research. Journal of Homosexuality, 58(5), 565-578. do I:10.1080/00918369.2011.563652