Posted on 08/16/2013 11:55:19 AM PDT by IbJensen
Edited on 08/16/2013 12:09:22 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Makhaela Jenkins is being banned from football by an Ohio school district.
An Ohio school district is refusing to let a seventh-grade girl play football, prompting requests that the board change its policies on female athletes.
Liberty Union-Thurston District superintendent Paul Mathews said the longstanding policy doesn't violate any gender-related regulations, because the district offers girls other, non-contact athletic options.
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I attended a very small Air Force dependents' high school where every able-bodied male had the opportunity to "make" the football team. All I can say is that you've never lived until, at five-foot-nine and 104 pounds, you've been picked up bodily by a huge, 250-pound monster, launched into the air and landed on the ground with the monster on top of you, skidding along the grass to the extent that you've ended up with grass stains that have gone all the way through your practice pants and tattooed themselves on your naked buttocks.
That seems reasonable.
I guess the parents want to see the boys tee off on this chick.
There’s a reason some contact sports aren’t played by girls.
As a kid we played touch football. Dads, old kids, young kids, boys, girls, etc. The front line could get rough with the blocking - but everything else was just touch and no hard blocks down field.
My secret weapon was a 9 year-old girl that could really catch the football and run. Of course after a few throws she wasn’t that much of a secret - although we always had new kids playing and they wouldn’t worry about her at first.
Oh but every feminazi knows that girls are just as good as boys and the reason why they don’t play football is evil male chauvinism and sexism.
Good point. As long as the sport is for the enjoyment and best overall development for the participants, and not some sort of insane adult-driven gladiatorial competition.
they did. The Lingerie Football league, IIRC.
The bluster on this thread is hilarious.
If she can honestly make the team, let her. The number of young women who can play competitively with their age group does decline every year, but there are a few amazons who can and it does no harm. It would teach and demonstrate meritocracy, a good think in my opinion.
This is in my neck of the woods and we are a fairly strict conservative area. The parents are nuts for wanting their daughter to play football - it is dangerous enough for boys. Yeah, I know - the libs cry equality and all that - but for those dunderheads - men and women are built differently and their bodies prove that.
My sister asked for football pads for Christmas when she was in seventh grade. My father told her in no uncertain terms and in addition, he told her it was time for her to stop playing with the boys.
True story... I will try and be brief.
When I was a Sophomore in HS, there was a girl that, although she was in marching band, decided that she was going to make the national papers and buck the system and join the football team. This was in the late 80’s... you probably read about the story.
Well, we were in summer practice right before school was starting, and the whole squad (JV and Varsity was just assembling dressed out for practice in full pads), when this one guy, I believe he was a Senior, “snapped”...
He started berating this girl for being a troublemaker, and soon he escalated to grabbing her by the facemask and scream obscenities at her about “Wanting to play with the Big Boys”... she just took it and took it and the whole team was just in a state of shock. It was so surreal. She then started to get treated like a blocking dummy by this guy... and soon was on the ground with this guy taking her by the shoulder pads and slamming her on the ground repeatedly, Trayvon style.
The whole time everyone just couldn’t believe what was going on... no players stepped in and stopped it, the guy just went berzerk on this broad... and she wasn’t like a 300# heiffer or something... she was an average sized 17 or 18 year old girl.
The coaches eventually came out of the fieldhouse and saw what was going on and grabbed the guy off the girl...
It was all just disgusting... I attended practice for another week or so, and eventually went to my old Frosh football coach and just said I couldn’t take the environment. It left marks on me seeing that girl getting the shit beaten out of her and yet none of the upperclassmen... none of the Varsity team leadership... stepped in and stopped it...
True story. I don’t want to name any names... this all was over 25 years ago... but it was national news that this chick was going out for football to buch the system... I don’t recall the incident at practice was ever in the news... all swept under the carpet, of course.
Men are big --- in God's eyes, I think --- Men are big to uphold justice, honor and right.
Update - the school has reversed its decision and will allow this girl to play football. More likely than not - she will be a bench setter and won’t be able to keep up physically and quit. We can only hope so.
Yea! Group hug, everybody!
I do remember something of this story. Thanks for an intelligent re-telling.
I’m surprised at your comments, Starwolf.
Usually they are insightful and stand alone without any criticism being hurled at them.
I disagree heartily with your comments.
I believe very strongly in meritocracy. If a girl can honestly play football competitively, she should be allowed to. There will be very very very few, but I have known a couple who could make most high school teams. Of those, a small fraction will choose to. This is a tempest in a teapot and in reality a non issue.
I think there are serious social advantages in recognizing merit where we find it. Something we have lost in this society.
My solution - Make the cheerleaders part of the football team. Their position is played on the sidelines, pom-poms in hand. Perhaps give them the responsibility to signal in the plays (or not).
(Not everyone gets to carry the ball.)
What’s your opinion on women in the military, especially as regards combat assignments.
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