ReadabilityWar on Women Alert! Good-bye, Title IX!
The latest battle in the War on Women comes from California: a 6’8, 220 lb male Desert Storm veteran who is now playing women’s college basketball. His teammates are not opposed, but the other teams (and, perhaps, the sixth best player on his team, who no longer starts) are irate. (Hat tip: Stacy McCain, and really Stacy this time, not Smitty dressing up as Stacy. Or something.)
This is allowed to happen because Ludwig was born a man, grew to be 6’8 and 220 lbs, then had a sex change operation a few months ago.
The 95th percentile in height for women is right around 5’8, 5’9. For men, the 95th percentile is somewhere around 6’2. (Here’s the bimodal distribution; Ludwig is 203 cm, for the record.)
Without getting too much into the math, let’s just point out the obvious: almost no woman can compete athletically against a man. Debbie Heald, featured in this month’s Runner’s World, set the women’s world record in the mile (and, IIRC, still has the high school record) in 4 minutes, 38 seconds. (The current women’s world record is 4:26.) Guys at my high school ran 4:30 miles on a semi-regular basis.
If you want to ruin women’s athletics, make us compete against men. Like Sarah Palin, I’m a Title IX girl and loved playing sports in high school, loved competing, and loved winning. (I also loved being part of a record-setting relay team, which would never have happened if men had been part of another relay team.) Athletic women understand that most of us can’t compete against reasonably strong men, and that none of us can compete against 6’8 Desert Storm veterans.
So, progressives: which is more important, women’s athletics or fighting ‘transphobia’? Because this ‘transsexual rights’ thing is a war on women if I’ve ever seen one.
Why not a sensible solution: unless you are unequivocally female, play on the men’s team? Hormones ridiculously out of whack? Men’s team. Have y-chromosomes in every cell in your body? Men’s team. Let us do our own thing and succeed as we are capable of succeeding — by competing against each other and not men.
Update: Evil Blogger Lady writes about a man, with intact genitals, who exposed himself to women in a sauna. How that is not some form of sexual harassment, indecent exposure, or sexual assault is beyond me.
The latest battle in the War on Women comes from California: a 6’8, 220 lb male Desert Storm veteran who is now playing women’s college basketball. His teammates are not opposed, but the other teams (and, perhaps, the sixth best player on his team, who no longer starts) are irate. (Hat tip: Stacy McCain, and really Stacy this time, not Smitty dressing up as Stacy. Or something.)
This is allowed to happen because Ludwig was born a man, grew to be 6’8 and 220 lbs, then had a sex change operation a few months ago.
The 95th percentile in height for women is right around 5’8, 5’9. For men, the 95th percentile is somewhere around 6’2. (Here’s the bimodal distribution; Ludwig is 203 cm, for the record.)
Without getting too much into the math, let’s just point out the obvious: almost no woman can compete athletically against a man. Debbie Heald, featured in this month’s Runner’s World, set the women’s world record in the mile (and, IIRC, still has the high school record) in 4 minutes, 38 seconds. (The current women’s world record is 4:26.) Guys at my high school ran 4:30 miles on a semi-regular basis.
If you want to ruin women’s athletics, make us compete against men. Like Sarah Palin, I’m a Title IX girl and loved playing sports in high school, loved competing, and loved winning. (I also loved being part of a record-setting relay team, which would never have happened if men had been part of another relay team.) Athletic women understand that most of us can’t compete against reasonably strong men, and that none of us can compete against 6’8 Desert Storm veterans.
So, progressives: which is more important, women’s athletics or fighting ‘transphobia’? Because this ‘transsexual rights’ thing is a war on women if I’ve ever seen one.
Why not a sensible solution: unless you are unequivocally female, play on the men’s team? Hormones ridiculously out of whack? Men’s team. Have y-chromosomes in every cell in your body? Men’s team. Let us do our own thing and succeed as we are capable of succeeding – by competing against each other and not men.
Update: Evil Blogger Lady writes about a man, with intact genitals, who exposed himself to women in a sauna. How that is not some form of sexual harassment, indecent exposure, or sexual assault is beyond me.
“Davud,”"
You wanna-be tough Men’s Rights Activits are sad – and sadly misinformed.
Title IX can be satisfied either by spending the exact same amount of money on men’s and women’s sports, OR by demonstrating that money is spent in proportion to interest. So if (hypothetically) you have 60 boys and 40 girls who want to play sports, you can spend $300 on the boys and $200 on the girls and meet Title IX. So no, you never actually spend money on women’s sports for which there is no interest and cut men’s sports for which there is interest.
Incidentally, your whiny, bitchy “I hate Title IX!” accounting is very similar to government accounting. You’re taking pre-Title IX spending and saying that 100% of that “belongs” to men, sort of like we have baseline budgeting. So if you “cut” spending on entitlements, or spending on men’s sports, you’re “cutting” people’s food or punishing those poor mensies!
Sorry to say, but men’s sports are only being “cut” because they were 50% of the athletes and 100% of the money.
Oh, by the way, please BACK UP your numerical, quantifiable claim that fewer women play sports. My high school track team was bigger than the boy’s team, basketball teams were of equal size, swim and tennis teams were the same size….
Well, “Title IX girl”, you are concerned about ruining women’s athletics but have little concern about ruining men’s athletics, which is what Title IX does by perversely mandating equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.
Since men voluntarily participate in athletics at a higher rate than women, men’s athletics programs are inevitably the ones that get cut in order to achieve artificially levelled “participation” rates among the genders. You go, Title IX grrrl…