Uneducated wingnuts
Posted by Greg on January 18, 2006
It’s easy to ignore Phyllis Schlafly, but her current column at Townhall is a doozy, even by her own considerable standards.
This year’s spectacular Rose Bowl game attracted a phenomenal 35.6 million viewers because it featured what we want: rugged men playing football and attractive women cheering them on. Americans of every class, men and women, remained glued to their television sets and nearly 95,000 spectators watched from the stands.
The runaway success of this game proved again that stereotypical roles for men and women do not bother Americans one bit. Political correctness lost out as all-male teams battled and women cheered.
It’s too bad that male sports are being eliminated on most college campuses. Except for Texas, USC, and a few other places, radical feminism rules in the athletic departments at the expense of popular male sports.
Yeah right. So much for the NCAA basketball tournament, the NIT, the dime a dozen bowl games around new year’s day, etc.
It seems the poor dear needs a reality check. OK, I’ll grant you there have been some issues with Title IX and the elimination of men’s programs and scholarships because of a lack of sufficient numbers of interested women to make the numbers is stupid and an injustice. But we got here in the first place precisely because for the most part women’s athletics weren’t given the attention and resources necessary to offer legitimate programs.
While I appreciate the angst the rebalancing has caused, universities are schools first and foremost and in terms of their educational mission there can be little doubt Title IX was a net positive.
And does ANYONE really believe the nonathletic majority choose a university based on which sports are offered? Sheesh!
