Hurt Girls (NTTimes on another downside to Title IX)
Former Member
Anyone catch the NY Times Sunday Magazine Article "Hurt Girls" two weeks ago which posited the politically incorrect fact that female athletes propelled by Title IX are ending up as physical wrecks by the time they are young adults? Dealing mostly with girls in soccer, lacrosse, and basketball, there were some hard figures showing, for example, that female athletes in soccer get ACT tears at five times the rate of males. (As expected, swimming did not come up as a source of injury). Most of the letters published this week in response were the reflexive defense of Title IX by the Title IX athletic establishment.
Parents
Former Member
Those stories about how sports are just too dangerous for our little princesses, I think about them in early August, when the fat kid goes out for the football team, runs the final mile after a week of two-a-days, collapses from heat exhaustion and dies.
Those stories about how sports are just too dangerous for our little princesses, I think about them in early August, when the fat kid goes out for the football team, runs the final mile after a week of two-a-days, collapses from heat exhaustion and dies.
