Children tales

A few days ago, I read an article written by Santiago Rocalingo that talked about what he thinks about the children's STORIES or the fairy tales. The author believes that the children's STORIES shouldn't be for educated the children or for give them certain "good" values, it should serve to entertain them. For this, the author is against the modification of children's books like Hansel and Gretel, The Little Thumb and many more which the original plot talked about leave the sons in the middle of the forest, children who steals,... and rewrite them trying to turn them in "politically correct stories" as the author says, where the bad character always lose (but without violence) and the good one always succeeds, the families are always nice and the characters an example. The author think that in this way, we are not protecting our CHILDREN, we are creating drag stories and making that children prefer the TV or the PlayStation where they can PARTICIPATE in wars and kill as many people as the want without anybody says nothing. I DON'T not totally agree with the author. In one hand, it's true that children's stories could be a little BORING because are always the same: there’s a good character with who the child want to identify because should be the hero of the story, should have a lot of friends and should win against the bad character. This bad characters is the one who the child don't want to identify because should be ugly, rude, without friends (in some cases he have a henchman who isn't as bad as his master but who will follow him anywhere he goes or will do anything he say) and should lost against the good character. This is in that way because children's stories are directed to a public who is still learning to differentiate between what it's right and what it's wrong and for this, they need to set in a good model who have the right attitude and with who can be identify. If it weren’t in that way, which role model we would be teaching to the children? But on the other hand, I think that it's also true that nowadays, it's useless try to change the children's books because they can play with the more violent play in the PlayStation, the computers,...

"A castle for my princess"

Like almost every girl in the world, Emily Heaton wanted to be a princess. This don't have anyhing of strange or excepcional and neither her model: it wasn't the Spain queen otherwise a Dinsey princess.

Jeremiah Heaton, the father, is the owner of a security company in the coal mines in the region of Abingdon, at the south of the Virginia State. Two years ago, he was asked by his daughter if some day she would be a real princess. He thought that she was acting like every girl in her age (she was 6 years old) and he answered of course she WOULD. The problem was that Emily was talking seriously and she said thait "it was soemthing importnat for she". So that, Heaton STARTED to search around the world a place without owner where his doughter could be the princess, and the last month he finally has found it: he planted a flag (made by the three soon of Jeremiah) in Bir Tawil, a piece of te Sahara desert of 2.060 square kilometers and between Egypt and Sudan and until now, unclaimed by any of the neighboring countries. So since the last 16th of April, Emily is a princess, but this is not all: recently, Disney had announced that after almost a year of talks with the Heatons family, they have decided to make a film with this story: the adventure of the father for try to give to his doughter a place where she could be the princess. Emily can't ask for more!

But, like in every Disney movie, there is always the bad character althought in this case, here are two bad characters: the reality and politics. It's true that Bir Tawil is a "empty place" I mean, anybody has claimed it untill now, but you need the approval of the International Comunity (starting with Sudan and Egypt) for impose a sovereignty. Further, you need to pas by Sudan or Egypt for arrive to this area and in one side, Sudan appears in the list of "The states sponsors of terrorism" and the United States don't allow you to travel to this country. In the other side, the departament of Egypt took motnhs fo give a permission to Jeremiah for travel to this area and besides, it tooks three days to him to arrive to Bir Tawil so it's a little inaccessible place.

Heaton has explain thta it will took a lot of paperwork achieve the recognition of the International Comunity and the governements but he also say that it will not stop him and even less since Emily explained what she wants to do in her kingdom: she wants "a garden" in for give food to everybody. So as a result of this wish, the intention of Jeremiah is try to create the infraestructures to convert this "kingdom" at the headquarters of a reserach center for the fight against hunger. 

In the other hand we have the second "Dinsey witch": the political. What for someone is a fairy tale, for others is the same colonialism did in the last century: a white man planting his band in an african country for make happy to his doughter. 

I don't know what to think about this NEW, it seems a little stupid, you know? In fact, at first, I didn't believe that it was a real notice, I mean, is nice that a father do wathever for make sure his soons are happy, but there are limits, aren't it? Besides, this is what the girl wants now when she is 8 years old (I don't know how to descrive this girl: ambitious for aspire to have a kingdom with her age or maybe capricious and spoilt because we don't have to forget that the father is doing what he can and more for make sure his daugther is a real princess), but what would she want when she grow up? Althought, it has to be said that the girl have good intentions: fight agains the hunger... Anyway, I would like to know what it's going to be her next birthay present, this is insuperable!! Well, maybe no, you never know with Jeremiah Heaton. 

Cashing Ice

Both at CMC and English class, we have deal with issues related with the enviroment, the pollution, the causes and the consequences of that problems,... and recently, I have seen a documentary about the thawing of the Poles, Groenlandia,... This documentary impact me a lot! It was a visual example of how dramatically is the change of the weather in our planet. The docuemntary was made by the photographer James Balog (USA), that before recieve an assignment of National Geographic in 2005, he started to record and preserve during more that six years pictures of this changes. In the docuemntary, he said that he wanted to find a way to capture and show what was happening in the Artic and in the glacials from around the world. The result of this has been this documentary: "Cashin Ice", based on 25 different cameras aiming to 16 different glacials in Alaska, Greenland, Iceeland, Switzerland, Canada... Each camera took pictures every half and hour during the day, producing almost one milion of pictures altogether. Balog said that do this documentary has change his point of view of the climate change and see this documentary has had the same effect on me, what you see in it shocks you! I rememeber one scene of the documentary in wich Balog appears seeing the pictures taken by on of the cameras and saying: "This is the memory of a landscape, a landscape that has already disappeared and will never bee see againg in the story of the civilitzation".

I think that of all the places recorded, the Arctic is which has cuaght more my atention because is the one that has change more. In Semptember of this year, the ice layer was the lower record registret ever! It wouldn't be a problem if during the "cold stations" this ice were formed again, but it is a problem because althoug during this "cold staions" the ice grows, each summer it melts more and more so the Arctic, since 1979, has been reduced by 40%.

Another shockin case is Greenland and the Antarctica hat according to the NASA, the thraw of this areas is now irreversible. The ice in this places decreases 2km each year and in the last decade has disappeared abou 35 km of theur area! 

I think thta what we should ask to ourselfs is: Why is happening this? And what we can do to solve this problem?Well., along the history of the Earth, the climae has been always changing: there has been seasons more and less hot oR cold, there has been glaciations,... and bound to this changes of temperatures, there has been setbacks and expansions of the areA coberted by ice. This changes happened in gradually ways, but now it's different; nowadays, the effects has increased as a consecuence of the human activity. The increasing pollution, the increasing emission of gases, the deforestation, the gases emitd by the trasnports and the industry, the use of fossils materials,... that cause the greenhouse effect are contributing at the increasing of the force and quickness of the climate changes. With the greenhouse effect, the global temperature increase a lot (just in the last decade it has increased 1,8ºF) and as a consecuence of this, there is an increase of the temperature of the ocean, a hole in the ozone layer,... that help to the thraw of our pols, to the extintion of many species, to the increase of the extreme weather events,...

The problem according to James Balong, is that althought the technological and economc solution for stop the impact of the climate change already exists, the only thing left is a greater political and public undertanding for try to conscious the population what are we doing to our planet  and how can we stopped this.

A theft of movie

A manor house located in a quiet neighbourhood in the centre of Madrid has been the scene of the major contemporary art theft occurred in Spain in recent decades: five paintings worth in 30 million euros of the great Irish painter Francisco Bacon who died in Madrid in 1992.

The thief took place this last July and the police are investigating as quietly as possible the whereabouts of this collection. They are looking for the works in and out of Spain and although they still have not results, they believe that the paintings haven’t left the country.

This works were from J.B.C, a 59 years old friend of the painter and also, an art amateur who received them in heritage after his death.

The blow was very fast and quite. The authors of the theft take advantage of the absence for a few hours of the owner from the house located in a heavily guarded area a few meters from the Senate. Neither the keepers of the estate, of five heights, or the neighbours saw or heard anything. The thieves were able to disconnect the alarm and for this, the security centre didn’t receive any notice so they could walk through the house and take the five painting and other valuables objects. Moreover, the police suspected that while the robbery was taking place, other members of the band were watching the owner for tell if he returned home.

Police also guarded, without luck, Arco (the art fair that take place in Madrid and that suppose the home of dozens of galleries around the world that attracts buyers from different nationalities) hoping to know about some movement of the stolen paintings.

So the robbery was a work of professionals: they don’t let any fingertip or loose ends to help track them and also, for the planning.

Original new: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/03/11/actualidad/1457725322_716425.html

In the heart of the sea

I would like to talk to one film that I have recently seen: In the heart of the sea. I really enjoy this film (not only for the main character, Chris Hemsworth) for the story itself. This film is based on the novel Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) and published in 1851. This book is one of the top works of world literature and for write it, the author was inspired in a totally true story: a great albino animal of these characteristic has existed wandering the ocean, sinking boats and being chased by the most daring whalers. So the book tells the story of the whaler Pequod commanded by Capitan Ahab, who had the obsessive and we also can say, self-destructive, hot pursuit of a great white sperm whale.

I think that one of the things that I like most of the story itself is the fact that it really could be a real one. At the beginnings of the 19th century, whaling was probably the most dangerous, unpleasant, and less rewarded of all occupations. Signing for a trip whaling could mean beeing up to five years away from home and a trip to the end of the Earth. The life of a whaler was between blood and blubber, with long periods of boredom and often, with violent deaths, but it was a big business. The whale blubber provisioned to the streets of London, New York, Berlin or París the necessary fuel for to illuminate them and most machines of the industrial revolution used the same fuel.

For this, it’s strange how rarely Moby Dick has been filmed, this story has never been a Hollywood obsession as other popular and good know adventure books as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or Journey to the center of the Earth, both of Julio Verne, that had been on screen several times. Anyway, this adaptation is a very good one if you didn’t know about Movie Dick story or if you want to know more about it.

The film, directed by Ron Howard, although tell us the same story, it’s narrated in a different way. In 1850, the young Herman Melville (author of the original book),  visits Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the whaler Essex, and he’s willing to pay him for know the story of Movie Dick. This sailor put us in the winter of 1820, when the Essex, a British whaler, was assaulted by something that nobody could imagine: an enormous size albino whale with almost, the human sense of revenge, and it comes the second big difference with the book: the novel only tell us the mind of the story, In the heart of the sea reveals us the terrible consequences of the meeting, when the survivals of the crew, among them who narrates the story, were forced to their limits and were compelled to make the impossible to stay alive. They had to face storms, the famine, the desperation and the panic. In that context, all men doubt even about their belief, about the value of their lives and also, about the morality of their office.

Can technology make a better world?

At this stage, we can’t deny that technology and also, science, has made life easier, simple and more enjoyable: it has made great contributions to human life. However, there still a lot to do for making a prosperous, sustainable and equitable world in the future. So we also have to consider if we are going in the right direction or if technology is injuring us. I think that we, as humans, should be able to control, lead or bring science and technology and not the other way. If we look through the years, we can see that technology has rapidly developed and had had a great impact on human life. Nowadays, everything in our life deals with science and technology, but we have to ask if our society has changed thanks or because technology development. 

We can think that technology hasn’t made the world an easier or a better place to live. It’s true that day to day, tasks and everything we do have become easier but it has been at the price of losing the ability to think for one's self and losing social interactions. People are getting used to don't think anything, we don’t remember information (or not make the effort of remembering it) because all of us know and expect that our phone, our computer, the Internet,…do it for use; everyone know that typing a question in Google means having an immediate answer… and more importantly: technology have had an important impact on human’s ability to interact with others. We are losing our manners, we’re impolite, we play with our IPad or phone when we’re supposed to be speaking with the person that we have in front of us (in that line, I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgavjtcnC3o that talks about what happens around you while you’re looking your phone!). How many times have you seen a group of people in a restaurant looking their phones instead of looking each other? Or what's worse, how many times have you seen someone talking with a prson through the phone when they have ech other just in front?

I believe that technology should solve problems without creating new ones, and with this criterion, unfortunately, we could have an endless list of “technological advances” that didn’t lead to practical solution. For example, let’s take the use of the petroleum for make automobiles work. At the time, people thought that it was one of the best breakthroughs of the history of the mankind: your car could take you anywhere you wanted. But if we look closer, we would see that it emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide what contributes to the greenhouse effect, the global warming and increase the ozone depletion, what endangers the earth and the human life. 

For this, we should make science and technology a problem solver. Have you ever thought about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Well, so Bell, at that time, was facing a problem: he wanted to talk to his family even though he was miles away from them so this problem forced Bell to think and search a solution and, with hard work, he solve his problem by inventing the telephone. The same happens with the electric lamp of Thomas Edison: if he hadn’t been persistent enough to try until his 100th light bulb, he wouldn’t invent it; scientists would never have discovered the nuclear power founding a new energy called nuclear energy if they had felt content with hydroelectricity; or if after invent the pencil it hasn’t been the necessity of erasing what you have drawn, the rubber would have never seen the light. 

So we can look upon that technology has to sides: maybe we can say that we have get to a point at which we shouldn't reached, we’re in the midst of a "reverse evolution" in partly, due to our technology addition. For this, both science and technology, should be a never ending work in progress, it doesn’t mean that we are not allowed to relax and enjoy our progress, but being satisfied with our improvements will not lead in not moving and step forward. In the other hand, we can’t deny the fact that technology has improved our world, we only have to take as an example the medicine that continues to improve day by day.  

Summing up, technology is neither good or bad, but it’s powerful. It’s up to the people who develop and use it to determinate what effect it has on the world and it’s in our hands to use this powerful tool in ways that improve the world: it’s simple, science and technology can improve life if you work to improve science and technology.

New book on the shelves of the Germany high schools

If the educational authorities of the country and the German government accept the proposal of the Association of Teachers and Education Minister, a new critic edition of the Mein Kampf (1925) will become a compulsory lecture and will be studied in all German high schools.

This book has been the most polemic and dangerous book in Germany and whose reprint has been prevented for 70 years. But now, taking advantage that the rights of the book written by the head of the Holocaust due this year, a small government sector want to introduce the new edition commented in the educational system.

This book contains both autobiographical data and the nationalist, racist and violent ideology of the author. Introducing that book into the high schools, according to the authorities, should serve to immunize German youth against the extremism political. They also think that the thought of the dictator should have an answer of the  21st century Germany youth and in that way, instead of allow that the charm of the forbbiden captivates the young people (because they can find this book on Internet), is much better that the students know this text helped by their teachers: it’s a good idea talk about this topic.

The oppositions to this proposal hasn’t been slow to appear and in fact, there are several politic sectors and different associations that consider that the new edition could serve to help spread the Hitler thoughts.

I think that this proposal is a right one and it comes at the right time: in German schools, the holocaust and the collective responsibility were spoke before any other place and, after all, we’re talking about one of the books that have had most influence on the Germany population in the history of the country and from now one, it will be on the shelves of the high schools besides other works; that one will not be there for his quality but for the capacity and the power that it have had, I mean, for the capacity of mobilizing an entire country.

As well as, in that way, German students will not just know what Hitler said but they will know what and why. In fact, I think that it is impossible to achieve a knowledge without understand. We know what was the anti-Semitism of Hitler but we don’t understand why for Adolf Hitler was more important exterminate a race than win the war. Yes, of course, we have plenty of theories, hypothesis, causes and motivations but no one of this explains or justifies adequately what happened and for this, I think, this “catastrophe” still being incomprehensible for us.

Summing up, I think that the moment of talk about this topic in schools has come: the risk of the Mai Kampf it isn't to make readers into neo-Nazis, but it is that we remove the importance that it have had taking it as a book of the past that nothing has to do with us.

(Original new: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/12/25/actualidad/1451070259_001988.html)

The book thief

The Book Thief is a novel written by Markus Zusak, an Australian writer also known for other novels as Cartas Cruzadas. He published this book in 2005 and with it, he won the literary prize Michale L. Printz in 2007 and he achieved a record of 105 weeks on the list of youth novels of the New York Times. 

An interesting fact related to the biography of this author is the interest that he have, since he was little, about the Nazi Germany, the bombing of Munich, the Jewish abuse,… interests that linked with the different experiences lived by their parents, from Australia and Germany, during the Second World War helped and inspired him to write The Book Thief. 

Unlike other works as El niño del pijama de rayas of John Boyne, La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz of Antonio Iturbe or Bajo el mismo cielo of Núria Pradas and in which the authors talk about what was lived during the Second World War from different points of view: the son of a nazi general, Jews and prisoners in a concentration camp,… the The Book Thief does it from a quite different and less common perspective: from the point of view of German citizens who, as far as is possible, try to go on with their lives as the war is progressing. That way, the history of the novel revolves around the host family of Liessel Meissl, a little Germany girl who because of the war, she would live various adventures and misadventures, she would meet different characters that will mark her life as Rudy, a guy obsessed with Jesse Owen and who will became her best friend; Max, a young Jewish that Liessel family will try to hide in his basement and many others as Hans or Rosa, characters that will teach her the love of reading and writing. In fact, as the novel progresses, we will realize the reason of the tittle: Liessel, after get to her new home and after the death of his little brother, she develops a great love for the reading and writing thanks to her new father and her new friend Max and for this, she will try to gather and collect all books she found and even, she will steal some books from the library of the woman of the mayor of the city who will baptize she as “the book thief”.

Another singularity of this book that makes it special and different is the narrator: the death. She (not the typical one wearing a layer and holding a sickle) tells us, at the beginning of the novel, that there are few stories in the world worthwhile tell but that the book thief is one of those.

Personally, books with this kind of thematic, I mean, based on the First or Second World War, about the Nazi concentration camps and other historical facts are of my favourites whereby I have read a lot of them and I have to say that this one in particular, The Book Thief, surprise you for the originality of the narrator and for other things as the topics discusses or rather, the way that the author explains them because he doesn't focus, as the main majority, in the conflict itself or in the refugees or prisoners lives,  but history reveals us the life of the German population during the war: how young people were recruited, families without fathers, how the population reacts in the middle of the night in front of the sirens that announced possibleairstrikes and also, the more depressive and dark episodes of the war are mix with friendship or comic episodes and all narrated by an a compassionate death.

For all of this I think that, independently whether you like this genre or not, you should give a chance to this novel because it has a complete history inside, and if you don't feel like reading, last year was relased the film!!

"I fell in love online"

Meet someone in a bar or in a nightclub, flirting with a classmate, keep an eye on the most attractive guy/girl of the office, meet interesting people through friends and friends of friends,…there’s still people who resort to these “old tactics” to hook up, but we have to say that the new technology has put the hook up into a new level. In fact, according to a study done by Stanford University, California in which they asked more than 3.000 couples how they had met, Internet was the third resource most used for find a relationship. It was positioned behind the chances of “hook up in a bar” and “hook up through friends in common”.

The steady growth of the online world has opened different doors to personal relationships through different and new ways of communication: Messenger, Skype, social networks and even, through the video games! But we can’t forget the most important sites: the web pages specifically intended to find a partner (Meeting, eDarling,…). 

Find a relationship through internet is, relatively, a new option, but each time, are becoming more and more the singles who opt for this choices when it comes to dating. In sooth, according to a recent survey, it’s more than probable that you have already date someone who you met on Facebook or in any of this sites and if is not that way, I’m sure you know someone who has made it. Actually, there’s any difference between the “online” meeting and the traditional methods for find a parted, people who use this sites are searching for new friendships, casual encounters or an stable partner, the only difference is in the way to do it. Internet is another tool, neither better neither worst, it can go right or wrong, like in any other situation. In the same study mentioned at the begging, more than the half of the survey respondent, 59%, said that they were agree with the quote “Internet dating is a good way to meet people” in front the 21% who said that “online dating is for desperate people”. But, what happened to romance? Your eyes meet from across the room. He grabs your hand by mistake. You laugh, you talk and you marry two years later.

We all have our fantasies about that first magical meeting. I doubt any of us envisioned beginning our love story with “I logged on and liked his profile so I sent him a message’. Not romantic.  But if we really think about it, many events in our lives haven’t gone according to plan… and maybe for good reason.

There are stories with happy endings, but there also are cases in which at the other side of the computer, there was a person completely different from the one that the profile shows and not with the best intentions...What If he/she is a psychopath? Another concern is the chance of meeting someone crazy, socially inept or worst yet… married. It’s certainly valid.

The good online services have methods to minimize your contact with these types of people. Extensive questionnaires, private chats with usernames, and in-depth personality profiles are now common features of the services. Some of these test results are surprisingly insightful, the process of finding someone could actually help you find yourself. Go with sites recommended by friends who have used them. With the right service, meeting someone online is no more risky than meeting someone in a snack bar.

Anyway, a recent study have shown that it seems that Internet not only has changed the way people discover the love in life, but it also showed that couples that have met through chats, social networks and online platforms offers more guarantees of success in the relationship. This research was conducted through a survey of 20,000 Americans who married between 2005 and 2012 and of them, one out of three, had met her current partner online. Moreover, we also have to highlight that since 2005, the number of people who had had a meeting with someone that have met online grew from 43% this year to 77% in 2015.

At this point, we can say the phenomenon of dating 'on line' has become popular in a way that is not strange to meet someone who has met their partner on the internet. In fact, if we look at the most important sites as eDarling, for instance, we are surprised to see that there aren’t a “particular profile” but there is people of all shapes and colours: we can find young and not so young people, divorced and, why not, married people. In this particular site, eDarling, the 70% of the users are between 26 and 50 years-old, in FriednScout24, the 60% of the users is between 30 and 55 years-old, with 60% are men and the other 40 women.

So online dating has been around as long as the web made it possible for two people to communicate and now, millions of people search everyday profiles and photos of total strangers hoping to find that special someone. Ten years ago, told someone “we met online” was the equivalent of saying, “I’m desperate” but nowadays, it has completely change, either for better or worse. 

Men, women and sports

Elena Rossell is the first Spanish women in participate in the Motorcycling World Championship and the first women in the history in do it in Motorcycly2 followed by Ana Carrasco, who in his 16 years-old debuted in the category of Moto3. Laia Sanz is a Spanish pilot who ends 16º in the absolute ranking and won the Dakar Rally Trophy Women 2014. Does anybody hear something about this sportswoman? It’s more than probably that you have never listened to something about this women’s but I’m pretty sure you know who is Marc Coma, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Marc Marquez,… they always appear in the newspaper, on TV, and in all mass media. Maybe this lack of knowledge could be because the motorcycling world is not as popular as others sports, but happen the same in all ambits: tennis, athletic, swimming and even, with the main sport: football. Does anybody heard about Carli Lloyd, Abby Wambach, Charli Lloyd,…? They are fantastic football players and all of them had won, at leats once, the Fifa Golden Ball like Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.

We believe that in a “modern society” as our society, people are equal and there aren’t any differences on grounds of sex and that the reference model is not the male one so, why women who play football or any other sport charge, without exaggerating, 1% of what men charge for play the same sport? Why is the basketball player Amaya Valdemoro best known as “la Gasol”?

The “golden season” of the Spanish sport is, overcoat, thanks women and there’s a lot of examples: handball, synchronized, water polo and if we have to mention a mainstream sport, we can’t forget basketball. This last summer, the Spanish women's basketball team had managed to win the European Championship in all categories, the sub-16 national team won the Eurobasket and the sub-20, proclaimed world champion just two weeks after the main team won in France but, despite all this, how many people realized this? Does anyone become this wins into a national event as it happens with men wins?

The difficulties for keep women's teams in all ambits: basketball, handball, volleyball, water polo,… is leading that the majority of our athletes have to migrate to live in a professional way their sport like men does in our country. They win championship and they bring gold medals but they don’t have any possibility to become elite athletes because there aren’t economic and informative support that allows the players develop and, unfairly, this not only happen in our country, it happen around the world although in one places this problem is noticeable than in other: in many cases, for instance, most of the women who participate in the Olympics Games, in World Championship,… have to lead with all journey cost and they have to spend their holiday days for not lose their job because they have to combine her “sports life” with another “real job” and at the end, who recognized their efforts and achievements?

For all of this, we can say that there’s a clear difference between the social, economic and media reinforcement that is done with them in front of the lack of professional consideration of women's sports. Someone could say that this happens because “sportswomen’s doesn’t give money” and that’s the problem: sportswomen’s doesn’t give money because there aren’t any invest in it and if there aren’t any invest is because people don’t value what we do. Even so, is also true that, little by little, this is changing: twenty years ago nobody talks about women's football and nowadays, for example, some newspapers have a specific section for women’s sports and the international events has every time, more audience.

I like to think that this thoughtlessness is changing: before, if you google “women’s football”, the only you could find was sexist jokes but now, you will find pictures of icons and idols of this sport. Besides, every time are more the countries that try to rise the women athletes to the "popular" level of men and sports like football or basketball has more and more support. Even so, I think that there's still much to achieve.