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Topic Brainstorm: Tap Into the Personal
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The sports teams I support and watch are important to me
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Finding answers and solutions to climate change is important to me
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Keeping young women safe, challenging sexism, and fi ghting casual misogyny on the
internet is hugely important to me. Sexism is so overlooked nowadays when it’s still a huge
issue. Around the world there are places where women don’t even have rights. In fi rst world
countries double standards and hatred towards women are extremely unequal to men.
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Mental health should be better understood in older generations not just youth
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The world becoming a better place with more equality is important to me
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My community is not multicultural enough
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I am very sheltered growing up
where I have
in Deep Cove
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I love how friendly and small my community is, people are a lot closer together
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I wish my community had more different influences or was bigger so I could get more
experiences
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The biggest challenge we face in our world is corrupt people with power. There are too many
leaders or people with extreme wealth who don’t do the right things to make our world a
better place for everyone. So much inequality and injustice stems from systems implemented
by people who are selfi sh, corrupt, and make change only to benefi t themselves.
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We as humans are too selfi sh and it leads to lots of issues in our world.
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If I had a magic wand I would make all judgement and shaming of women go away so they
feel free to be whoever they want to be, do whatever they want to do, and like whatever they
want to like without hatred.
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Topic Brainstorm: Debate
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Jordyn and I tried to choose a topic we have disagree on as we have very similar
lives and values it seems unlikely we would disagree on much. We looked at the topic
of whether empathy is useful in being a good person as I know I am a very
empathetic person.
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We both started with the opinion that empathy id important and makes you a better
person but the article convinced me otherwise and same for Jordyn.
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Empathy can almost become selfi sh in making an issue about yourself when it wasn’t
ever about you in the fi rst place.
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The therapy example really stood out to me, no therapist should be depressed along
with the patient, while they can be compassionate they must stay level headed and
calm.
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I don’t completely agree with the article I think being empathic does make you better
person than someone who is not empathetic and doesn’t think about others, it just
isn’t always the best solutions in many situations.
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After reading the second argument I believe I agree with the points made more so
here.
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The concept of debating whether a part of human psychology is good or bad is
pointless as it happens no matter what and cannot be changed. There are negatives
to all parts of the human mind but we don’t debate whether they are good or not
because we just accept them as things we have. Empathy is the same.
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Jordyn believes that empathy is better when it’s just an internal feeling but I believe
that it is helpful sometimes to have someone understand and empathize with you.
However the point of empathy being attention stealing also makes sense and would
likely make me annoyed.
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I think debating parts of human anatomy is a flawed idea but personally I think ethical
and moral debates or controversial opinions are super interesting to talk about.
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The second opinion was written in a stronger more persuasive way and I think the
metaphors were a really strong feature. Topics I didn’t understand were made simple
for me and I took it as fact because the metaphor made so much sense I had to
believe the author.
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Topic Brainstorm: Listing from Lists
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Dress codes in schools should not exist, or not to be changed as they are not up to date.
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Should homework be required? Yes because in the real world people will have to work over
hours to get things done. However if there are circumstances where the student can’t
complete it there shouldn’t be punishment, mental health has to come fi rst.
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Healthy food should be cheaper and more accessible. People below the poverty line are
much more likely to become obese because it is all they can afford. Cheaper healthy food
rewards people for eating well.
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The best sport to play is soccer (football) because it is easy, simple, and accessible for
anyone anywhere to play.
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Female athletes should watch more sports as the majority of people who follow sports are
men despite an increase of girls playing sports. Professional female sports being televised or
increasing quality would also likely help lead to this.
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Dominance in formula 1 kills the sport and viewership
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Is social media benefi cial or harmful? Social media is 100
%
harmful specifi cally to mental
health but also to current affairs and the spread of false news and polarization. That being
said it is very enjoyable and addicting so despite disliking its affects I still use it all the time.
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The importance of school cafeterias and having food options available for students at school.
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Tests are not a good method of teaching children in schools. The whole school system is out
of date and needs updating.
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Parents and adults need to have a better understanding of mental health so teens and youth
feel safe opening up and seeking help.
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There are extreme double standards towards women in Hollywood and the internet always
brings down women who are achieving success. An example of this is how Bruno mars has
won every Grammy he’s ever been nominated for and has received no backlash for it only
praise, whereas Billie Eilish won majority (not all) of her Grammy categories in 2020 and was
immediately labelled as “overrated” and a “Grammys darling” and was immediately facing
attacks from the media. Taylor swift’s career was also heavily affected by this misogyny in the
media.
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Considering Audience: Circle of Viewpoints
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Women who agree with me and believe that there are too many double standards for women
and they are not acknowledged enough. Female celebs such as Taylor Swift come to mind as
her entire career has been spent battling the media for sexist opinions and remarks.
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Women who aren't aware of this issue or disagree with me and think that sexism is an issue
of the past and no longer affects us
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Men who don't believe this issue exists. This could include politicians or men who hold lots
of power.
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Men (or women) who believe the opposite. They believe there are more double standards for
men and the issue of "reverse sexism".
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Older generations who don't view this issue as sexism and instead take things as jokes or
believe it's ok and just the way things are. The people who call new generations "sensitive".
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I am thinking of double standards for women from the viewpoint of a feminist.
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I think that there are way too many double standards for women in our world and especially
on social media. Women aren't allowed to like or do certain things without ridicule but when a
man does the same thing no one bats an eye or sometimes they even receive praise. It is not
talked about enough and it is so normalized to everyone, boys and girls. Sexism and
misogyny are not issues from the past they are still very present in our world.
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A question I have from this viewpoint is why do we accept this as normal in our world? It is
so rarely talked about but so common for women to be torn down and not enough people
care.
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I am thinking of double standards for women from the viewpoint of women who are unaware
of this issue and have internalized misogyny.
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I think that feminist's are exaggerating sexism nowadays, it doesn't really exist in my life.
Sometimes people make jokes I don't like but it's fi ne. These are just the way things are.
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A question I have from this viewpoint is what is considered sexism? Does it affect me and still
exist or are feminists just dramatic?
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I am thinking of double standards for women from the viewpoint of men who don't think
sexism is still an issue.
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I think that sexism is no longer an issue. Making slightly offensive jokes is funny. I think girl's
still like girly things and they can do thing's less common but it's not often and I might not
believe them at fi rst. There are defi nitely lots of "pick me girls".
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A question I have from this viewpoint is why are girls still talking about this? My life is just as
hard as theirs I don't have any benefi ts.
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I am thinking of double standards for women from the viewpoint of men (or women) who
believe there are more double standards for men and that our world has gone to "reverse
sexism".
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I think that these "feminists" just have a male agenda and that our world has now started to
oppress men to combat the sexism from the past. Women get so many benefi ts nowadays
and just complain, they should let men do whatever they want.
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A question I have from this viewpoint is why does everyone always assume men are the
villains? We do nothing wrong.
Identifying with Audience
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The people who care or have an opinion on my topic is basically everyone. Sexism affects
everyone so everyone should care and even if you don't actively pay attention to it most likely
you will believe one way or another, not many people are undecided on sexism.
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The difference in perspectives on this topic are among the lines of how important and
relevant the issue is. Some views think it is extremely important and overlooked and needs
more attention, some do not care about it, and some think the other side is overreacting and
going over the line. Very few people disregard the existence of sexism but how present it is in
our society now is debated.
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I want to support the perspective of the feminists who are pushing to make people aware of
how normalized sexism and double standards are even in our lives now in 2022. I think it is
extremely important to challenge how casual it has become.
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The majority of the feminists will be females but men can also be included and should be
helping out. It is not only up to women to erase sexism when men were the ones who
implemented it in the fi rst place. The target group to approach is youth of both genders.
Older generations will be harder to convince as they have had their morals and values for so
much longer it is hard to get them to agree to change.
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The youth and future generations need to learn about and realize how deeply routed sexism
is in our society and how casual double standards are. If the youth understand the issues and
are aware of the problem then the hope is they will change this and stop it from going
forward. They can then pass on these new values to their kids and so on and so fourth.
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Both girls and boys are internally misogynist so it is important to target young girls too to
make them aware. The future generations can be taught to break the cycle.
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Thinking inside the box
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Interview Reflection
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My goal for the interview was to pinpoint one habit my brother has that is misogynistic
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I didn't out and out interview him but I had text and FaceTime conversations with him about
f1 and female fans and fans on twitter.
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At one point my mother made a comment about a driver being demoted to a team and my
brother said "Don't be like all the twitter girls who feel bad just because he's pretty".
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He clearly has the attitude that some female fans don't understand the ruthlessness of sports
and that they just care about the drivers/players being attractive.
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He generalizes this at times and implies that all female f1 fans (especially ones on social
media) don't know as much or don't understand the sport and are too soft/ruining it.
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My goal is to make him stop generalizing all female sports fans and also to accept that just
because a female fi nds a driver pretty doesn't make her less of a fan. Especially when a man
could watch the same amount of the sports or less and not be questioned as a valid sports
fan.
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I was surprised at how he can say something like that but then fully accept me as a big fan,
does he ignore that bias with me because I am his sister?
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With a few text conversations he would send me tweets and get annoyed over female fans
on twitter and I found the best way to challenge his thoughts were to downplay his opinions
and make him question himself.
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He is stubborn so if I try to tell him he's wrong and should believe me he will dismiss it. If I lay
out facts and make him question his own beliefs he can change his own mind on the subject.
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I wish I had picked a more obvious change to make rather than an attitude change as it's
harder to measure but it is important and should be important for him going into the sports
industry.
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I still need to fi nd the best method to convince him. I can't do a back and fourth conversation
so I may have to tell him the project and then send a paragraph arguing my point.
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Other options could be writing a twitter thread responding to someone else's comment and
then sending to him for his opinion
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I could also just send him a tweet in text and write my opinion on it hoping for him to see my
side.
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I cannot "call him out" or make him feel attacked or he will just shut me down. This can't be
me doing an intervention telling him he is wrong.
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I think I should angrily rant to him in relation to a misogynistic tweet he'd probably agree with.
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Brainstorm
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Why does my brother generalize all female f1 fans? He sees a few bad female ones and then
groups all actual female fans in with them.
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Why does he think female F1 fans are less of sports fans than male ones? Males watching
sports is normalized, for women it's not.
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Why does he get so annoyed at people for liking different aspects than him? He's stubborn
and thinks what he believes is always the right answer.
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Why does he think fi nding a driver attractive takes away from your love of the sport? Just
because it could be a celeb crush doesn't mean the fan doesn't like the sport aspect just as
much.
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Why does he always feel the need to complain about "twitter girls"? Plenty of guys tweet
stupid things and he either ignores it or just calls them dumb. He never doubts a guy's sport
fandom but he does with girls.
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He dislikes Christian Horner and Horner made a misogynistic quote about female F1 fans. If I
can get him to disagree with Horner he can apply that thinking to himself so his opinion
changes.
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He wouldn't consider himself a misogynist he would say he's right that girls on Twitter aren't
real fans. The issue is that there are plenty of real female F1 fans and he generalizes them.
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The issue I am getting him to change is to stop referring to anyone who he disagrees with
over f1 as girly fake fans or "twitter girls". It reinforces a misogynistic view that all female
sports fans aren't real ones.
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I will convince him to stop doing it by sending a tweet to him (he does this a lot to me)
complaining about what is being said in it. The tweet can either be Horner's quote about
women only caring about the driver's looks or a tweet generalizing female fans like my
brother does.
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In my argument I need to emphasize that it's embarrassing or pointless for people to hate on
female fans. They're not hurting anyone so that way he doesn't put the energy into doing it
anymore.
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Also that there is no set defi nition of a "sports fan" people can like any aspect of any sport
and still be a sports fan.
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Counter his arguments of "they're too soft" by pointing out that their reactions do not affect
or inconvenience him in anyway. People can have their own opinion or perspective on a sport
and instead of getting annoyed and generalizing people or fi ghting back he needs to just
ignore it and recognize people won't always think exactly what he does.
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Thesis
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Majority of female F1 fans are fans just the same as everyone else but underlying
misogyny means that they get generalized as fake or crazy boy obsessed fangirls.
Saying things such as "twitter fangirls" is such a harmful generalization and it scares
away new potential female fans.
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Ideas Outline
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I will send a tweet to my brother and give a response/rant message along with it arguing my
point. (This way he won't believe I'm actively trying to persuade him, just arguing my point)
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The tweet I'm sending says "girls are glory hunters, doesn't matter if it's leclerc or stroll
whoever is winning they support, just like most F1 twitter fan girls who don't even watch a
single race."
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The main points I want to argue is
generalizing ALL GIRLS as if they aren't real fans of the
sport
and
how incorrect it is to say that "twitter fan girls" don't watch races.
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There are creepy and disrespectful fans in F1 of both genders, but these people are never
used to represent male fans as a whole, whereas they are for females. All female fans will be
generalized as the "fangirls" who are obsessive or creepy when majority are just regular fans
same as everyone else.
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Just because female fans may fi nd a driver hot or like any other content they produce
doesn't diminish any value of how much they like the sport. If a girl is watching an entire 2
hour race where she only sees cars on a track, she is a sports fan. It doesn't matter if she
also watches the interviews after or watches youtube videos about them, that is all extra, it
does not take away from the fact she watches and enjoys the sport itself.
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Using the phrase "twitter fangirls" is also extremely generalizing because it makes it seem
that all women that tweet about F1 are crazy fangirls. Men have fan pages on twitter too or
even if they don't, plenty will tweet their F1 opinions
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By implying that the girls on twitter who tweet about f1 "don't even watch a single race" he is
saying that every female who makes any sort of tweet or content about f1 twitter is faking it.
Yet men can tweet about f1 all they want and even get into arguments but they're fandom
isn't accused of being fake.
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Majority of female F1 fans are fans just the same as everyone else but underlying misogyny
means that they get generalized as fake or crazy boy obsessed fangirls. Saying things such
as "twitter fangirls" is such a harmful generalization and it scares away new potential female
fans.
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start with audience
and
address their needs
: I know sometimes you agree with statements
like this or complain about "twitter girls" and I get some are very annoying, it's easy to group
them.
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explain the main ideas and details
: however its frustrating as a girl who genuinely loves the
sport when people generalize all female f1 fans or all of the ones on twitter as crazy fangirls
or fakes who only fi nd drivers attractive.
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get
them to think about their choices
: there are plenty of annoying guys on twitter tweeting
dumb things too but no one ever make a statement about "fake fanboys". It is extremely
unfair to actual real women f1 fans to generalize them into a group.
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get them to make the change
: if people keep making these generalizations or making
comments like you have about dumb twitter girls then it will stop women from getting more
into F1 and they'll lose out on a whole demographic. Sure there are defi nitely some annoying
crazy fan girls
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Draft 1
Hey, this tweet really annoyed me and I know sometimes you will say statements similar to this
or complain about "twitter girls". I get some are very annoying and wouldn't even be
considered fans but, its frustrating as a girl who genuinely loves the sport when people
generalize all female f1 fans (especially ones on social media) as crazy fangirls/fakes who only
fi nd drivers attractive.
Just because female fans may fi nd a driver hot doesn't diminish any value of how much they
like the sport. If a girl is watching an entire 2 hour race where she only sees cars on a track,
she is a sports fan. It doesn't matter if she also watches the interviews after or watches
youtube videos about them, that is all extra, it does not take away from the fact she watches
and enjoys the sport itself.
There are plenty of annoying guys on twitter tweeting dumb things too but no one ever makes
a statement about "fake fanboys". It is extremely unfair to actual real female F1 fans to
stereotype them.
If people keep making these generalizations or making comments like you have at some points
about dumb twitter girls then it will stop girls from getting into F1 which would be a shame.
Majority of female F1 fans are fans just the same as everyone else but underlying misogyny
means that we have to fi ght frustrating stereotypes nonstop.
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Reflecting to Revise
What is the most important thing I want to say about my subject? How am I saying it in a way
that won't be forgotten?
The most important thing I'm saying is that girls are fans just the same and shouldn't be
treated any differently from boys, but they are. The language I use is very memorable and
emphasizing the word "generalization". Also using the uncomfortable subject of attractiveness
and calling people hot will make him think about it. Using an example is also super effective
because it means there is no lacking context.
What's missing?
Maybe mention the "glory hunter" comment and line up my argument to exactly what the tweet
says.
A stronger last word for a meaningful conclusion.
How will this writing leave my reader feeling? What will they think? What do I want them to do?
How does my writing inspire this?
Initially would feel intimidated or guilty, maybe like being called out. Once the shock factor
wears off he'll think about what I said and consciously make an effort to stop spreading
stereotypes. I want him to stop sharing these opinions or harmful things. My writing pressures
him into doing the right thing, making changes in his thinking, and keeping these comments to
himself.
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Draft 2
Hey, this tweet really annoyed me and I know sometimes you will say things along these lines
or complain about "twitter girls". I get that some accounts get on your nerves, but as a girl who
genuinely loves the sport its frustrating seeing people generalize all female f1 fans on social
media. You know we are not all crazy fangirls or fakes who only fi nd drivers attractive.
Just because a girl may fi nd a driver hot doesn't diminish any value of how much she likes the
sport. If she is watching an entire 2 hour race where she only sees cars on a track, she is a
sports fan. It doesn't matter if she also watches the interviews, watches youtube videos, or
even Lando's twitch streams. All of that is all extra, it does not take away from the fact she
watches and enjoys the sport itself.
There are plenty of annoying guys on twitter tweeting dumb things too but I never see people
complain about "fake fanboys". It is extremely unfair to actual real female F1 fans to
stereotype them.
If people keep making these generalizations, or making comments about "dumb twitter girls"
then it will prevent girls from getting into the sport, and I know you don't want that. Majority of
female F1 fans are normal fans, so using stereotypes just reinforces more unneeded negativity
on F1 Twitter.
