College athlete’s lives are out in the open, especially if they are an elite division I player. Fans, including media outlets, are very interested in their lives outside of the sport that they play. It is mostly the female athlete’s life they are interested in. Reporters even sometimes ask irrelevant and inappropriate questions.

This is frustrating because when the athlete is getting ready for the interview, they think they are going to be asked questions about the game and how their performance was during the game. In a YouTube video that came out five years ago, male athletes were asked outrageous questions such as being asked about their love life and being asked to give a “twirl” while wearing their uniform. These male athletes were shocked when they were asked these questions, as they should have been. Those are the same questions that female athletes have been asked by reporters. Reporters do not care to comment on how the female athlete has played. They only focus on their emotions and appearance.

The solution to this problem is to stop asking female athletes these questions. They do not want to be asked about their love life, to do a twirl to show off their uniform, or about their emotions. They probably want to asked about their performance in the game and about the team that they play on.

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