What do you do if some boys won't let you play basketball with them just because you are a girl?

Answer 1

maybe just play (the style/ the moves) just like the guys do...thatll turn them on...

Answer 2

Are you a tom boy girl, or a girlie girl? If you are either one watch when they begin to go out to play basketball and be there before them. Start practising and making lots of baskets. Show them what you really can do. Once they see that you can play, bet the best player that you can make more shots in the rim than he can by trying to make more baskets than him in ten shots. Tell him if you make more shots than him and he loses then he has to make the group let you play. You can bet they will be fighting whose side you can play on. If you are a girlie girl you can just smile and flirt a little with the team leader and he will convince the others to let you play. If not, then who needs them? Start up a good girls basketball team, and dare them to play against you. Sounds as if they are already afraid that you can play better than them and will show them up. Just try being friendly with a few of them and tell them that you are bored and love to play basketball and can't find anyone to hang around with.

Answer 3

I LOVE basketball!But honestly, I'm a little to shy to ask "boys" if I could play basketball.
But if I was brave enough, this is what I will do:
Lets say that I ask some boys if I could play basketball would them and they said "Of course not! you're a girl! Why don't you just go jump rope with your friends lozer."I would say," Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm a lozer.Just let me play, and I'll show you what I got! Now whose team am I on. And you BETTER let me PLAY!" and if they won't budge, I"ll go to another basketball court and show off by shooting hoops and trying not to miss.

Answer 4

You have to prove to them that you're talented enough to play with them. Keep practicing, let them see you play, and prove to them you're serious about playing basketball and not there to pick up guys or some other activity.

Personally, I've never been a fan of one or two girls in a basketball game full of guys. Girls tend to be a distraction and if most guys are like myself, they tend to "go easy" on them and maybe even allow them an open shot or two.

Therefore, it's important you show them that you can play. Keep practicing. Guy don't mind letting girls play with them if they've got a good jump shot :)

Answer 5

Summarized notes from my sociology of gender book

First, i'd like to say, i'm disgusted by such oppressive practices. Print this out and show it to them and tell them they are acting like little hitlers, struting their stuff like roosters in a henhouse full of BullSht. This isn't a case of "boys will be boys" They are learning gender here, not getting it from their genetics. They should be held responsible for their actions.

Also, a lot of the people answering are suggesting forms of prostetution. What's up with that?

"It is through the enforcement of gender boundaries that boys construct their social status...Masculinity is maintained through a hegeonic process that excludes feminity and alternate masculinities. (P 177 Mcguffey and Rich)"

Hegemonic masculinity is often exerted in order to horde and control resources including priviledge.

For boys, learning gender and understanding the perameters of status in the boys circle, the book explains on page 173 that:

Status = Power.
Rank = Athletic Ability.

4 Characteristics of the formation of hegemonic masculinity page 174:
Masculinity = Better than femininity
Detach emotionally
Be competitive
Interact with women as sexual objects (tell sexual jokes about them, sexually harass them with words, body language, or gestures et.)

These agressions maintain masculine hierarchies:
Exclusion, agrression, and humiliation

Exile is an especially effective threat to keep boys acting masculine because masculinity is attained through ones performance in front of others, especially in front of other boy. Exiling a boy from the group means he can no longer perform for the group to assert and maintain his masculinity.

Isolation marks the boundaries of feminity. That is, excluding girls from boys games marks a boundary between boys and girls so girls can't challange the boys' positions of masculinity. This also keeps girls from accessing equal rights and resources, and means to gain equal self confidence, this continues throughout life and elevates into more serious social inequalities.

Tau reanb.
That is a classic case of projection. Why punish the girls when the guys are the ones doing what you aren't liking?
The 'guys' are getting distracted....The 'guys' are going easy on them...See where i'm going with that? Its a bit of BS to project onto girls the faults of the guys.

Link is to my gender education website (where there are links to gender education community called Gender Schmender)

Answer 6

I agree you should play one of them. I could beat all the boys in the neighborhood. I got good enough to play with all the boys in college too. Prove your talent to them and they won't dare make the mistake of saying you can't play.

Answer 7

Being that the point of the game is possession of the ball, just join in regardless and show them your stuff.
I did it at a rugby practice at University once, be warned, they may not go easy on you if you make fools of them, especially being a girl! I got splatted by a whole team!...

Answer 8

Get a few other girls who play and challenge them to a game. Once you kick there butts or at least give them a good game they will take your request to play more serious.

Answer 9

Brush off what they say, being a girl has it's advantages, after all- thier reasoning is rather silly, so tell them to give you another chance, and heck, show them that you can play just as tough and just as well as they can!

Answer 10

Pick one you know you can beat, challenge them to a one-on-one game, and have the stipulation that if you win, then you can play with them. If you loose, keep practicing and come back, but never give up on it, unfortunately YOU have to earn their respect, which sucks, but that's what it sounds like.

Answer 11

just start playing and show them how good you are then they may let u play! i've done that before! the better you are the more they usually want you to play!