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As the gender order has shifted to incorporate girls\u2019 and women\u2019s movement into the masculine realm of sports, coverage of women\u2019s sports has shifted away from overtly denigrating coverage in 1989 to ostensibly respectful but lackluster coverage in 2014. To theorize this shift, we introduce the concept of \u201cgender- bland sexism,\u201d a contemporary gender framework that superficially extends the principles of merit to women in sports. Televised news and highlight shows frame women in unin- spired ways, making women\u2019s athletic accomplishments appear lackluster compared to those of men\u2019s. Because this \u201cbland\u201d language normalizes a hierarchy between men\u2019s and women\u2019s sports while simultaneously avoiding charges of overt sexism, this article contributes to gender theory by illuminating how women can be marginalized in male- dominated, male-controlled settings via individualized merit-based assessments of talent.<\/p>\n<p>Download &#8220;&#8216;From Fizzle to Sizzle&#8217;&#8221; in its entirety <a href=\"\/cfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2023\/02\/Fizzle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"parent":345,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;From Fizzle to Sizzle!&#039; Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism (2017) - Center for Feminist Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cfr\/content\/gender-in-televised-sports\/from-fizzle-to-sizzle-televised-sports-news-and-the-production-of-gender-bland-sexism-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;From Fizzle to Sizzle!&#039; Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism (2017) - Center for Feminist Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cfr\/content\/gender-in-televised-sports\/from-fizzle-to-sizzle-televised-sports-news-and-the-production-of-gender-bland-sexism-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Feminist Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-10T22:37:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cfr\/content\/gender-in-televised-sports\/from-fizzle-to-sizzle-televised-sports-news-and-the-production-of-gender-bland-sexism-2017\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cfr\/content\/gender-in-televised-sports\/from-fizzle-to-sizzle-televised-sports-news-and-the-production-of-gender-bland-sexism-2017\/\",\"name\":\"'From Fizzle to Sizzle!' 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