BOYS, SCHMOYS

Funny little story out of Newport, New Hampshire. It’s a Title IX-type situation and it should have the usual suspects like the Feminist Majority and the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education in arms.

It seems the Newport school system disbanded it’s boy’s soccer team and won’t allow one of it’s members play on the girl’s soccer team. They say the state athletic association rules won’t allow “mixed competition” teams. Of course, the same rules allow girls to play on the boy’s teams when there is no comparable girl’s team.

What to make of this? Well, it’s pretty funny to see our preferential treatment of “aggrieved classes” demands get thrown back in the faces of the whiners and to see the usual suspects remain wholly silent on this issue. The young man is also getting an early education on what it can be like to be part of the evil, white, male, corporate, power structure in this PC world we live in today.

In reality, Title IX doesn’t apply below collegiate sports, so I expect the usual suspects to keep quiet and use that as their cover, not that that would stop them if a girl was denied on the boy’s team. Look, boys not being allowed to play on girls teams makes sense, especially when they will be playing other girls teams. Girls teams could guarantee state championships by recruiting the most talented and statistically larger and more powerful boys onto the girl’s team and playing teams with no boys. That’s why the state athletic commission has the rules they do – and it makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is allowing girls to play on boy’s teams because they would statistically WEAKEN the boy’s team when playing against all boy teams from another school. But, who cares about that? As long as the girls feel good about themselves…