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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.:)
Amy, please don't get me wrong. I think what happened to you in the 80s--and to almost all women my age in the 70s and earlier--was shameful.
No worries, Jim. I was just being a smart aleck right back at ya'. And, I actually feel extremely lucky to have been a woman growing up in the era of feminism and Title IX. Things were not equal but they were certainly much better than they had ever been.
It's women of generations before me who really got the shaft. (Yeah, I know where you're going with this one--Alpha Male...) :)
I think of my mom, for instance, who is the big sports fanatic of our family. She's in her 70's and knows all the players' names on her college basketball team every year. She keeps track of all of her school's sports. Her much older brother played basketball at that same school years and years ago and she went to every game. I know if she had ever had the opportunity to really play sports she would have loved it. But girls just didn't have the opportunity to play back then. I'm so lucky to have grown up when things were changing for women. And I think Title IX did some tremendous things.
Amy, please don't get me wrong. I think what happened to you in the 80s--and to almost all women my age in the 70s and earlier--was shameful.
No worries, Jim. I was just being a smart aleck right back at ya'. And, I actually feel extremely lucky to have been a woman growing up in the era of feminism and Title IX. Things were not equal but they were certainly much better than they had ever been.
It's women of generations before me who really got the shaft. (Yeah, I know where you're going with this one--Alpha Male...) :)
I think of my mom, for instance, who is the big sports fanatic of our family. She's in her 70's and knows all the players' names on her college basketball team every year. She keeps track of all of her school's sports. Her much older brother played basketball at that same school years and years ago and she went to every game. I know if she had ever had the opportunity to really play sports she would have loved it. But girls just didn't have the opportunity to play back then. I'm so lucky to have grown up when things were changing for women. And I think Title IX did some tremendous things.
