Is my middle school sexist against females?

I know this might sound silly, but I have an inkling that my middle school may be sexist against females. First off, we are a public school in the suburbs of Chicago. Um. I don't know if this matters, but we are in an upper-middle class area. So, here's why I think my middle school may be sexist:





1) Our mascot is a Trojan. No, there isn't anything sexist about a Trojan, but it's just that for all the images that our school uses for our mascot, it's a male. Wait. Weren't the women of Troy not considered citizens? I think that's what we learned last year in 7th Grade world history...


2) The boys locker room is very nice whilst the girls locker room is not. See... The boys locker room was renovated around six or seven years ago and the girls locker room was renovated around the late 80s, early 90s. The boys locker room is clean, polished, and shiny with shiny red lockers and sturdy benches. The showers are not the cleanest, but still clean, and it has a vending machine. The Girls locker room has rusty, stinky, sort-of dirty but still relatively clean, green lockers, gross floors, an ancient shower that no one uses anyway and a sturdy bench. It does not have a vending machine. If you're wondering why I know what the guys locker room looks like, it's because I took a peek during open house night 'cause I was curious to see what it looked like...





3. At the pep rallies, they make a WAAAY bigger deal out of the boys sports. They did that even when the girls basketball team went undefeated and the boys basketball team lost almost every game. For the guys, they were like


"WOOO OUR CHAMPIONS!! GIVE IT UP FOR THE BOYS B-BALL TEAM!! WOOOOO!!!!"


and for the girls they were like


"And the undefeated girls team."





4. We have a super-short feminism unit. It wasn't even a unit. It was, like, half a paragraph in the text book. But I think that goes for every school. Argh.





5. There is only girls volleyball and only the girls are allowed to try out for the spirit team (aka cheerleading and poms) Yes. ALLOWED. Boys aren't even permitted to try out for the team!





6. The wrestling team discourages girls from joining. Girls are ALLOWED to join, but the coach (who is male) warns against it. Well, I don't want my face in some sweaty guy's pits, anyway...





7. Whenever a staff member needs help with moving something, they always say





"We need a strong boy" or "Are there any boys willing to help with this" etc.


You know, girls aren't THAT weak...








Soo...


You be the judge. Is my middle school sexist?|||Well .. I don't know ... I still don't think it's too bad ... maybe you could talk about this with your friends. Then the next time a teacher says they need a guy's help to lift boxes, you can protest together. Or anything else that doesn't sound right.





Is there more proof you have that your school is sexist? I don't think you have enough, if you plan on protesting (to who you should protest, I don't know.)|||This is almost as bad as girls who complain that they can't join the foot ball team because there isn't a girl foot ball team, the fact is what is the point? Your at the school for like what a couple years and then gone. Now about the whole sports thing, Like I said who cares? Sports have no point what so ever, Other then that it seems your school lacks money for the whole locker room thing. Most school speed by every subject and hope you learn it, so thats no different from every other middle school.





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