Speech

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog, today I'm going to be talking to you about  my speech from a few weeks ago. We got to choose to base it on: sexism, racism, ableism and religious discrimination. I chose sexism so here's mine:

Did you know that one gender gets more attention even then the other even though they work at the same Job. Today I’m going to be talking about sexism. Pretty much what I’m trying to say is I want to talk to you about sexism and the way people show it, so let’s get to it.

Stereotyping, take a construction worker for instance or a pilot, they’re usually men right? Well that’s what people think at least Or like a nurse or ballerina maybe, you automatically think of  a man for a construction worker or a pilot and woman for a ballerina or nurse? That’s the thing, they can be a woman or a man’s job. Almost every job is unisex both women and men can work there, the people that just assume that is called stereotyping. 

Sports, picture this, you’re sitting on the couch, flicking through the channels then you think, oh actually I want to watch rugby. So you change to that channel and you have two choices, to watch the all blacks or the black ferns, what one did you choose? The all blacks, right? You choose the all blacks over the black ferns when they both play the same sport, same rule book and the same country. The only difference is their gender. Did you know that one of the best rugby players in the world is actually a woman. Kendra Cocksedge has been awarded many awards, she was awarded the kelvin R tremain memorial player of the year and she beat All Blacks Richie Mo'unga, Brodie Retallick and Codie Taylor. What I am pretty much trying to say here is that girls should be on the same level as boys for anything and in this case, especially sports.

What strategies we can use to reduce it: Now I want to talk to you about how to we can reduce it and just some things to remember, first thing, if you see or hear someone sexist or even someone being discriminated, be an upstander not a bystander, a bystander is hearing or watching someone discriminating someone else or even just being rude and laughing a the person being discriminating. But an upstander is someone that says, actually say no that isn’t right, stop it. The next thing is that women’s rights are human rights, nobody should be treated differently because of their gender, through sports,

My point is just to be nice to each other even if the opposite person is the opposite gender, and if you do see someone being hurt be an upstander.

Thanks for tuning in let me know if you have ever done a speech on something like this before, see you next time, BYE.