If I Were a Man related to She’s the Man, the movie

When I started reading If I Were a Man, I instantly thought about one of my favorite movies, She’s the Man. She’s the Man is about a girl’s soccer team that is cut for the season due to financial issues within the school; since she, Viola, has such a passion for soccer she searches many avenues to play soccer that school year. Viola proves that girls can do anything guys can do by disguising herself as her twin brother to play soccer. She goes on to making the boys teams and winning against their biggest rival. When reading If I Were a Man, about Mollie Mathew turning into Gerald Mathewson, I think about what such a passion she must have had about being a woman and making it known. In the beginning of the article, we experience this transition with Mollie as she is understanding the norms for being a male (p 171). One day Mollie, Gerald at the moment, starts talking to her neighbors. A discussion about women verses men begins and Gerald states the question, “Haven’t we known girls in school and college just as smart as we were?” (p 175). As the conversation starts to heat up, the debate goes back and forth between whether or not women can play football or not and as well as what the woman’s role is. Gerald says, “Women are pretty much people, seems to me?” meaning that there is no difference between men and women and who they are in general (p 175).

After reviewing both, the article and the movie, it is true that when people, women for example, what to make a point, they go after their intentions. The intentions of these two women were to prove a point to the men that they are worthy of being equal to men. They had such a passion of defending their beliefs and they went to great heights in defending themselves and proving to others that women are not inferior but an equal to men.