Fine, but now women have the opportunities, do we still need Title IX?
I've read several articles about Title IX on the internet, and most of them
reek of reverse discrimination or reverse sexism.
from http://www.lifetimetv.com/WoSport/stage/RESLIB/html/mythbusting.html
"Title IX requires that male and female athletes receive the same benefits
of athletic participation:
.....equipment, uniforms, supplies
.....access to weight room and training room
.....equal practice facilities
.....same size and quality locker rooms and competition facilities
.....equal access to practice and games during prime time
.....same quality coaches as boys teams
.....opportunity to play the same quality opponents
.....the same awards and awards banquets
.....have cheerleaders and band perform at girls games too, etc."
I have no problems with the first items on the list, that's what Title IX
was made for. But I do have a problem with some of them. "Same quality
coaches?" How can you measure this? I suppose by salary, but what if the
guy's team goes 35-10 and wins a national title and the girls only 10-30.
Could they then sue and blame it on unequal coaching? Or better yet, since
Nebraska's girls basketball team made the NCAA tournament under new coach
Paul Sanderford, and people have wanted to fire Danny Nee (men's bb coach)
for years, since he didn't get the men's basketball team to the tournament
can we claim Title IX for unequal coaching?
The cheerleader thing boarders on the absurd almost as well, especially the
etc. thing. I think this is supposed to mean all the extras that go along
with sports. I'm surprised it doesn't go so far as to mandate equal
attenance. I mean hell, as long as we're in a quota system, why should guy's
teams get a majority of the fans and girls don't? Let's make title ix
require all people who buy season tickets for a men's sport spend an equal
amount on women's sports. Well, maybe not.
This reminds me alot of a recent lawsuit against movie theaters. Handicapped
people claim that stadium seating is against the equal treatment law because
it prevents handicapped people from gaining access to the best seats in the
theater. Never mind that 97%+ of the people are watching movies from better
seats and they save handicapped people the best seats in the non-stadium
seating part(middle of the back row which is pretty close to the middle of
the theater in), by god if that 3% or less of the population can't have
access to the same exact stuff then let's sue and claim discrimination.
Since we can't use an advance, no one can!
The thing I hate about quota systems is that they equate use-of-opportunity
with opportunity itself. here's another analogy. A business opens and hires
100 blue collar and 10 white collar jobs. 10 men and 10 women apply for the
white collar jobs, but 150 men and only 25 women apply for the blue-collar
jobs. The company can obviously fill the white collared ones to meet their
quota, but even if they hired all 25 women for the blue-collared jobs they
still couldn't meet their quota and could be subject to a discrimination
suit. And this ignores the fact that they may turn down higher qualified men
to meet that quota (I'm not saying men are necessarily higher qualified, but
they could be)
The same applies at schools. A school could offer plenty of sports for women
and maybe they just aren't as interested.
Finally, this takes the cake:
from http://www.netspace.org/herald/library/titleix/homepage.html
"When Brown University demoted its women's gymnastics and volleyball teams
-- along with its men's golf and water polo
squads -- from varsity to club-varsity status in April, 1991, the affected
female athletes charged that the University's decision
discriminated against women, thereby violating Title IX."
They won and Brown is going thru the appeals process (currently up to the
Supreme Court). Hrm, they cut 2 men's and 2 women's sports. Yep, that's
definatly discriminating against women when they cut hte same number of
men's and women's sports. After they originally sued the 2 women's sports
were added back, and yet they still claimed they were discriminated against
despite the fact the 2 men's sports weren't re-added. That, to me, is B*** S***.
I love how when white males do anything to anybody, it's discrimination. But
if anybody screws white males over, society accepts it. No wonder there's
racial and sexual tension in our country.
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