So it turns out that some "feminist" people I know were celebrating the 30th anniversary of Title IX. Like most guys I know, you're probably scratching your head asking, "What the hell is that?" Unless you have suffered from it, you are excused from not knowing or caring. Sadly however, thousands of young men around the country have been subjected to having their scholarships dropped or their team sport eliminated from the athletic program to satisfy Title IX. Thankfully, not all feminists have their heads up their asses. These gals have a clue about just how stupid Title IX has become. Like most laws of it's kind, it set out to cure a wrong, but in the end, it created more problems than it set out to cure in the first place.
Excerpt:
"We've Come the Wrong Way, Baby
By Christine Stolba
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When President Richard M. Nixon signed Title IX into law in 1972, few would have predicted that the statute designed to provide equal opportunity would have a damaging effect on college athletics, forcing many colleges to eliminate popular teams and provoking costly lawsuits by aggrieved female athletes and radical feminist organizations.
Title IX, part of a larger education bill, simply stated, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
What happened to make this straightforward provision in the law a nightmare for college and university athletic departments?
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency in charge of enforcing Title IX, developed a three-prong test to determine if schools were in compliance with Title IX:
• The ratio of male and female athletes closely paralleled the ratio of male and female students;
• Colleges could demonstrate a history of expanding opportunities for athletes of the under-represented sex; or
• Colleges could show that the interests of the under-represented sex had been fully and effectively accommodated.
In theory a school needed only to meet one of the three prongs, but in practice, after a Title IX lawsuit called Cohen v. Brown University in 1991, the first—achieving statistical proportionality in athletic programs—became the best way to avoid a lawsuit or OCR investigation. In practice, of course, in a student body where boys nearly always express higher levels of interest in sports than girls and where male sports such as football have larger team rosters than women’s sports such as volleyball, the proportionality test quickly became a brutal numbers game. Frequently, it was a game that colleges could not win unless they got rid of men’s teams.
As a result of Title IX, in less than a decade, more than 80,000 slots for male athletes on intercollegiate teams have disappeared from college campuses. The National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Women’s Sports Foundation have been aggressively suing colleges and universities to enforce proportionality."
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I can not imagine that we are too far off from some woman claiming a "right" to reparations from a University because she was denied a softball team.
Damn, the more I read of this CRAP, the madder I get! These hysterical chicks are clucking, screaming, and crying "Foul" because they've "discovered" that the traditional workforce doesn't show their ideal of gender parity. It shockingly turns out that only 2.5% of all firefighters are female, as well as only 1.5% of all heating/air-conditioning mechanics are female. Amazingly, only .02% of all tool and die makers are female. "Something must be done!" Hey there Billy Jean, have you and Martina ever stopped to think that maybe most women don't want to be in these fields? Maybe that's the reason for the statistical variance? The problem may not be that the angry, stupid, white-man is putting you down and keeping you down, but rather, maybe, just maybe, most women just don't want to work at Jiffy Lube?! Maybe they don't want to be the women you want them to be. Here's an idea: instead of trying to litigate so other girls and women become welders, why don't you slip off your comfortable shoes and put on some work boots and pick up a cutting torch?
Excerpt:
"We've Come the Wrong Way, Baby
By Christine Stolba
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When President Richard M. Nixon signed Title IX into law in 1972, few would have predicted that the statute designed to provide equal opportunity would have a damaging effect on college athletics, forcing many colleges to eliminate popular teams and provoking costly lawsuits by aggrieved female athletes and radical feminist organizations.
Title IX, part of a larger education bill, simply stated, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
What happened to make this straightforward provision in the law a nightmare for college and university athletic departments?
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency in charge of enforcing Title IX, developed a three-prong test to determine if schools were in compliance with Title IX:
• The ratio of male and female athletes closely paralleled the ratio of male and female students;
• Colleges could demonstrate a history of expanding opportunities for athletes of the under-represented sex; or
• Colleges could show that the interests of the under-represented sex had been fully and effectively accommodated.
In theory a school needed only to meet one of the three prongs, but in practice, after a Title IX lawsuit called Cohen v. Brown University in 1991, the first—achieving statistical proportionality in athletic programs—became the best way to avoid a lawsuit or OCR investigation. In practice, of course, in a student body where boys nearly always express higher levels of interest in sports than girls and where male sports such as football have larger team rosters than women’s sports such as volleyball, the proportionality test quickly became a brutal numbers game. Frequently, it was a game that colleges could not win unless they got rid of men’s teams.
As a result of Title IX, in less than a decade, more than 80,000 slots for male athletes on intercollegiate teams have disappeared from college campuses. The National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Women’s Sports Foundation have been aggressively suing colleges and universities to enforce proportionality."
END OF EXCERPT
I can not imagine that we are too far off from some woman claiming a "right" to reparations from a University because she was denied a softball team.
Damn, the more I read of this CRAP, the madder I get! These hysterical chicks are clucking, screaming, and crying "Foul" because they've "discovered" that the traditional workforce doesn't show their ideal of gender parity. It shockingly turns out that only 2.5% of all firefighters are female, as well as only 1.5% of all heating/air-conditioning mechanics are female. Amazingly, only .02% of all tool and die makers are female. "Something must be done!" Hey there Billy Jean, have you and Martina ever stopped to think that maybe most women don't want to be in these fields? Maybe that's the reason for the statistical variance? The problem may not be that the angry, stupid, white-man is putting you down and keeping you down, but rather, maybe, just maybe, most women just don't want to work at Jiffy Lube?! Maybe they don't want to be the women you want them to be. Here's an idea: instead of trying to litigate so other girls and women become welders, why don't you slip off your comfortable shoes and put on some work boots and pick up a cutting torch?
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