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Originally Posted by Title Fight Productions
Why do you think that is?
Seriously, im abit ashamed of all you in here. I guess i knew what i would find in this thread since it is on a mens dominated sport forum, but since when has "being treated equal" meant being over demanding?
Its pretty simple, women have been oppressed in sports for many, many years and something needed to be done. Can or should they tweek it a bit now? Yeah i have no problem with that....but for all of you to say Title IX is bullshit and no one likes women sports, and blah, blah, blah is embarrassing!
I hope you all have daughters who want to excell in sports and Title IX is not around.  |
Thank you for pointing out some of the logic problems in my previous post. The problem is not that women can't/shouldn't be athletes. The problem is that men's sports programs are being disbanded regardless of success rate and student-athletes are losing scholarships and opportunities for scholarships.
I am all for women's athletics. My one sister competed in college and the other was recruited but decided to forego it. Both find Title IX to be flawed and harmful to athletic programs. I trained side-by-side with female athletes in college on club teams. To me, a person, regardless of gender, who is fit and confident is in a better place than one who is not.
The problem is that the University of Miami has a women's swimming program but no men's swimming program. The problem is that a national powerhouse like ASU has cut it's wrestling program as so many others are. I would have no problem with fielding a wome's team to go with every men's team. I do have a problem with the idea that a sport that involves shin guards and a field hockey stick getting the same amount of funding as one that requires transporting 80 kids back and forth across the country with their helmets and pads every fall.
There needs to be an exception for football. If the school can field a women's football team, then fine. They can even get some of those scholarships. But have the need. In high school, I wore an eight-year-old uniform. Not a problem, it was getting dirty every Saturday anyway. But when the brand new girl's lacrosse team got to keep their uniforms, equipment and warm-ups, because they had to get new stuff next year to use the budget money? It just seemed a little weird. Not resentable, just weird.