Originally posted by Beachboy:
Although I'm not trying to belittle her claim of rape, I still have to question the motives behind women who try to break into male dominated sports and want to play on men's teams. When a woman wants to compete in all male sports like football or wrestling, they are entering a highly physical world drenched with testrostrone. The physical contact inherent in either football or wrestling is a 'loaded gun'. Around here, a lot of controversy was generated when a girl tried to join the boy's high school wrestling team, and succeeded. The combination of close physical contact and teenage hormones is just asking for trouble. Most of the competing boys forfeited their matches, rather than get into the awkward situation of wrestling with a girl.

I used to be a manager of an industry that was exclusively male except for my secretary. When we were forced to accept a woman applicant 25 years ago, all hell broke loose. The particular women in this situation wanted the same 'rights' as the men, but didn't want to do the physical work, since she wasn't 'strong enough'. Even worse, the men's wives went on the warpath, because they were upset their husbands were working with a woman. They didn't want their hubbies spending the midnight shift with a woman....their imaginations went ballistic. We ended up with the female employee filing sexual harassment charges against virtually every male employee.

Anyway, as a result, I've not been the most supportive person when it comes to women breaking into male dominated fields. I feel the same way when it comes to sports, and I'm definitely NOT a supporter of Title IX. Yeah, I know my viewpoints are from the old school, but I can't condemn the Colorado coach.



There was a time when there were no minorities in Baseball too and no one wanted a black man in baseball because it would cause too many "problems" with the players. They had to have their own separate "negro" league until men like Jackie Robinson proved (through much turmoil,suffering and personal sacrifice) that blacks could and should compete in baseball as EQUALS. I say anyone that has the conviction and the gigantic gonads it takes to be a pioneer like that should be respected not put down...regardless of whether it is a race/gender/or any other discrimination issue. As long as a female can do the same things a male kicker in football (or whatever position/sport) they should be allowed to play without being harrassed or treated unfairly.

Anything else to me is a spit in the eye of the American dream and all those who have died defending that dream and a complete slap in the face to all those who have suffered in the past in order to advance civil rights and equality in our nation.

Besides, none of the above really has anything to do with rape. Rape is wrong and a heinous crime NO MATTER WHAT. There is no excuse (testosterone, male dominated sports blah blah) that makes rape O.K. and if she was raped there is nothing ANYONE can say to me that wouldn't make me feel like it was "no big deal" or "she brought it on by trying to play men's sports"

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