statistics duh
Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 2:26PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
So we always hear about girl needing to be allowed to play boys sports because after all, we are all equal.

Now, a boy plays a women's sport, and is banned for being good at it.

That makes sense.

Thoughts?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/keeling-pilaro-male-field-hockey-player-banned-being-160713816.html
race restrictions
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 2:32PM - in reply to statistics duh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
We would do the same thing to Africans if we could.
Close but no cigar
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 2:37PM - in reply to statistics duh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Actually, I think girls are allowed to play boys sports when a sport isn't offered for girls, and I guess vice versa with field hockey, not because "we are all equal".

In general, however, sports aren't co-ed because the best boys are consistently better (taller, faster, stronger, etc) than the best girls, at least after puberty.
Quizmaster
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 2:47PM - in reply to statistics duh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Junior athletes can run in senior competitions. Senior athletes cannot run in junior competitions. Why do you think this is, and what are the parallels to this situation?
Tiger Woods
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:09PM - in reply to statistics duh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Women sometimes play in PGS events, but I've never seen a man play in the LPGA.
Home-E-O-Pathic
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:10PM - in reply to statistics duh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
statistics duh wrote:
Now, a boy plays a women's sport


It's not a woman's sport. Field Hockey is popular with men in many other countries, namely Ireland. This kid is from Ireland.

If you moved to Italy and only girls ran, would you stop running? Probably not.

That being said, field cockey sucks cocks.
trollism
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:17PM - in reply to Home-E-O-Pathic Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Home-E-O-Pathic wrote:

It's not a woman's sport. Field Hockey is popular with men in many other countries, namely Ireland. This kid is from Ireland.

If you moved to Italy and only girls ran, would you stop running? Probably not.

That being said, field cockey sucks cocks.


To be honest, field hockey is not that popular in Ireland. They play Shinty and Gaelic Football.
waldorf and statler
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:22PM - in reply to Home-E-O-Pathic Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Home-E-O-Pathic wrote:

[quote]statistics duh wrote:
Now, a boy plays a women's sport


It's not a woman's sport. Field Hockey is popular with men in many other countries, namely Ireland. This kid is from Ireland.

If you moved to Italy and only girls ran, would you stop running? Probably not.

That being said, field cockey sucks cocks.[/quote]


But if there is no men's field hockey team, he should have the right to play on the women's team. That is the argument for women to play on men's teams in similar situations. This IS an equality issue, and a reverse title ix issue in a way.
Home-E-O-Pathic
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:26PM - in reply to trollism Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
trollism wrote:
To be honest, field hockey is not that popular in Ireland. They play Shinty and Gaelic Football.


No, you are wrong. All Irish men like Field Hockey and Guinness beer and redheaded, pasty women. And cucumbers and potatoes and lamb pies.
Home-E-O-Pathic
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:26PM - in reply to waldorf and statler Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
waldorf and statler wrote:
But if there is no men's field hockey team, he should have the right to play on the women's team. That is the argument for women to play on men's teams in similar situations. This IS an equality issue, and a reverse title ix issue in a way.


I agree with you.
Well What Do You Know
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:42PM - in reply to Home-E-O-Pathic Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Home-E-O-Pathic wrote:

[quote]waldorf and statler wrote:
But if there is no men's field hockey team, he should have the right to play on the women's team. That is the argument for women to play on men's teams in similar situations. This IS an equality issue, and a reverse title ix issue in a way.


I agree with you.[/quote]

Demonstrating once again that the population on horribly pathetic males on Letsrun is alarmingly large.
y7oi
RE: Some more equal than others: Boy banned from girls field hockey team for being too good. 4/26/2012 3:44PM - in reply to Home-E-O-Pathic Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
During the winter (I'm too lazy to look it up) there was a similar hoorah--maybe in Massachusetts?--regarding boys on girls' swim teams (when the school did not offer a separate boys' team).

Boys were advancing to the State finals in various events, thus keeping girls from having the opportunity. But Title IX mandates equal competitive opportunities (actually, that's a major simplification, but I won't go into it here), so the boys had to be allowed to swim.

Maybe someone will use Google to find that story..