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10/18/2005 |
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Sexism in High School Athletics | |
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Today's Philadelphia Inquirer contained a particularly enlightening article. Boys and girls are different when it comes to sports. Duh. Although they are so different in fact that a West Chester Area School board is meeting to outlaw boys playing on girl teams, such as field hockey. They are concerned because the boys have a "unfair competitive advantage " which increases the risk of injury to the girls playing the game. One boy on a filed of more the 20 girls is a injury risk, but what about the special consideration that have been made for girls who play in boys sports. If you have a girl on a boys football team would not her risk to injury be exponentially greater since the ratio is flipped, 21 boys to 1 girl. It is disgraceful that the school board has not been tagged for being the sexists that they are. Fairness is all that is needed, if you are going to stop boys playing girl sports then stop girls playing in boy sports. That is equality. |
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