“Whip iIt” is a very good movie that talks about sports, feminism, and different perceptions aboutf gender roles, both within the family base and in society. The movie cabrought my attention ton thoe way that women are seen in male-dominated sports, and also to the fraught relationship between thea mother and thea daughter who have different interests from each other.
Bliss, a seventeen -year -old girl with a strong personality, finds herself fitting in on the roller derby team, where she feels happy and can be herself. However,But Bliss has howser doubts about trying out for the roller derby team, because she knows that joining the team means she will go against her mother’s expectatwionsh for her thato shcompe has toe join the beauty pageant. Also, she doubts that if she rwill be abllye to fits in with the team, whose members are tough, muscular, and aggressive compared to her as a high school girl. AloOng withop of that, she worries thabout shbeing istoo younderage to join the team, and about what will happen when she hides from her family to playgo skate and lies to everyonthe in twhole team about her age.