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Why do we continue to point to lower participating numbers of women in sports to justify the assertion that society is persecuting women? I was a part of a state high school championship team in Colorado and we never cut anybody. My daughters' teams in this very school (Deer Valley) district were regional champions 11 years running. Nobody on their teams got cut. I would assert that the opportunities are there even with the good teams/schools. Is it possible that overall less women are interested in sports? Badminton would put us in compliance??? Swell.
And for what it's worth, I think Hogshead got touched out in the 84 Olympics.
Fort, it's been awhile, please educate me again.:)
It also seems unfair to trump up scholarship opportunities for women with no previous interest in a sport (women's crew is a great example of this--lots of women with little previous training can learn how to row a boat and get a scholarship for doing so).
You take a guy who has been training in a sport since first grade, he makes his college team, then they cut his sport entirely while women's crew coaches roam the campus looking for large girls who might be able to pull some oars and offer them a four year scholarship?
Okay, this is clearly an incendiary example.
Far from being a "great example," I'm not sure it's even accurate. Though it is invoked anecdotally quite often. Here at least, the availability of collegiate scholarships and increased opportunities for female rowers has caused the high school and club rowing teams to increase in size and become very competitive. Girls are starting to row at younger ages. And at our high school, the girls rowing team may be better than the men's team. Isn't this exactly what was supposed to happen?
And will all the Alpha Men just fold up their tent and stop competing if there is not an official college team? Or will they just join club teams, as they did throughout their youth? (Or become open water swimmers and triathletes since no one likes pools anymore). I suspect there will still be Alpha Males to go around, though the increasing populace of Super Girls will no doubt effect evolution in some glacial way.
It also seems unfair to trump up scholarship opportunities for women with no previous interest in a sport (women's crew is a great example of this--lots of women with little previous training can learn how to row a boat and get a scholarship for doing so).
You take a guy who has been training in a sport since first grade, he makes his college team, then they cut his sport entirely while women's crew coaches roam the campus looking for large girls who might be able to pull some oars and offer them a four year scholarship?
Okay, this is clearly an incendiary example.
Far from being a "great example," I'm not sure it's even accurate. Though it is invoked anecdotally quite often. Here at least, the availability of collegiate scholarships and increased opportunities for female rowers has caused the high school and club rowing teams to increase in size and become very competitive. Girls are starting to row at younger ages. And at our high school, the girls rowing team may be better than the men's team. Isn't this exactly what was supposed to happen?
And will all the Alpha Men just fold up their tent and stop competing if there is not an official college team? Or will they just join club teams, as they did throughout their youth? (Or become open water swimmers and triathletes since no one likes pools anymore). I suspect there will still be Alpha Males to go around, though the increasing populace of Super Girls will no doubt effect evolution in some glacial way.
