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 to the police 5,600 hate crimes classified as crimes related to race and ethnicity. In 2010, there were three female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time, but that same year, women working full time earned just 77 cents for every dollar a man earned. In 2009 there were more than 750 billionaires, but the unemployment rate was also the highest in thirty years. Young, educated Americans are more open to gays and lesbians than they were a few years earlier, but there are still huge numbers of people who oppose same-sex marriage. There are many more federal laws than ever to protect a person with a disability from employment discrimination, but nearly 26,000 employment discrimination claims were filed by people with disabilities in 2013, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It was a gloomy afternoon that my friend and I were on the phone talking about how our day was going. I complained to her about finals week being almost here and how there is so much to do in such a short time. She, on the other hand, had an interesting story to tell that day and thought it connected well with my group's assigned topic. He said it was a warm, sunny day to run a mile for a fitness exam. They had to travel four two hundred meters 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 didn't yell at the girls who continued walking to complete the mile. So I asked her if the coach was… middle of paper… er, DL (2006). Feminine girls and virile men: Children's gender stigma consciousness in sports and physical activities. Journal Of Leisure Research, 38(4), 536-557. Fagrell, B., Larsson, H., & Redelius, K. (2012). The game within the game: Girls' underperforming position in physical education. Gender and Education, 24(1), 101-118. doi:10.1080/09540253.2011.582032Voss, L. D., Hosking, J. J., Metcalf, B. S., Jeffery, A. N., & Wilkin, T. J. (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). Masculinity and sexuality in sport and physical cultures: Three decades of evolving research. Journal of Homosexuality, 58(5), 565-578. doi:10.1080/00918369.2011.563652