Discrimination

Everyone in one’s life time experiences some form of

discrimination due to various reasons many at times merely

because of one’s age, race, intelligence, semblance, gender and

so on. My such experience is from my Alevels ( final two years

of high school in Pakistan). It so happened that there was a

sports event coming up in school, since I was into playing

sports a lot I decided to try out for the school’s foot ball team.

Later when I told my sports teacher that I wanted to try out

for the football team he simply laughed it away by saying “ foot ball

is not a girl’s game and you definitely will not be able to

make it into the game, so go and try your luck in some other

girly sport!” I got angry at his response, I went straight to the

principal’s office and reported the matter to him. I told him that

I was not given a fair chance to try out for the team just because

I was a girl, I also said that I felt that this was an unjustified attitude

towards the participation of girls in various sports activities. I also mentioned

that I knew many girls who had interest in football and if given a chance

they could play the sport really well. After listening to me the principal

called the sports teacher and discussed the matter with him, the sports

teacher said that never in the school’s history did a girl participate in

football, and he challenged me to find at least five girls out of the forty five

girls in my batch who are capable