Strength and the thought of strength

In the article, "If Men Could Menstruate" there is a lot of emphasis on the idea that men take some physical aspect of themselves and try to turn it into a positive utensil. One thought that this brought into my head is connected with sports in our school. It is very interesting to see that in our school, there are far more boys that girls doing sports of all kinds. There is a very small group of girls who are "intense" enough to do sports and all of them seem to go into the same two or three sports. It is sad to see that most of them are turning away from running however. There is a strikingly low commitment to running from our school's female population. Track and Field has so few girls that our teammates are being stretched to do far more events than is fair to the average hard working human being. Although in the article, men tend to overemphasize their own power, on Track and Field, the equality between men and women stands true as both the girls and boys on track work just as hard and work together on races and practices. No one asserts control over the others, but instead we try to teach each other with mutual respect given to each individual. The only way in which the equality does not exist between the genders is with numbers. The number of females at ASL who are willing to do Track and Field are so low that the boys half of the team almost triples it in number. I think that there either is some lack of confidence for a lot of girls in our schools to try these sports, or some strand of laziness. There is absolutely no reason that the girls at our school cannot do running. In fact, there is no reason that anyone in the whole world cannot do running unless they have some biological defect that keeps them from running. As human beings we are meant to run and so we should all embrace the thing we were biologically created for together and in equal numbers if we can possibly do so. I think that many more girls should do running and stop being afraid of the supposed "pain" and just go and try it. Running is not pain. It is fun.