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In reply to the discussion: Michigan High School Forced To Tear Down Boys' Baseball Bleachers Due To Inequality With Girls' [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)75. Destroying things in the name of "equality" seems somehow misguided.
This does absolutely nothing to "lift up" the girls to same level as the boys. All it will do is foster resentment.
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alp227
Mar 2014
OP
I wonder if colleges are where this sort of strict interpretation is really aimed, and applying
petronius
Mar 2014
#10
This was the top feature on Glenn Beck's website. Of course...no one has actually seen this "order.
msanthrope
Mar 2014
#8
sometimes things are done with a carrot and a stick--ignore the carrot... you get the stick
dembotoz
Mar 2014
#11
Well I have to say that I don't want to fund either baseball or softball bleachers
wercal
Mar 2014
#32
Yes the difference is when you try and twist what I say rather than try and argue a point.
clffrdjk
Mar 2014
#62
No it happens all the time, I just don't care for it when people misstate my opinion
clffrdjk
Apr 2014
#121
They want to use the money the baseball parents raised to build softball bleachers
TransitJohn
Mar 2014
#66
I think you might have meant to reply to someone else because I agree with you 100%
kcr
Mar 2014
#33
if you are going to have some vestige of equality between boys and girls sports at some point
dembotoz
Mar 2014
#18
Wonder how Title IX will work after the men's football and basketball teams unionize?
FarCenter
Mar 2014
#31
So, now the girls have softball bleachers, but the boys have no baseball bleachers.
sl8
Mar 2014
#56
If all it takes is the tearing down of some bleachers to make them disrespect women...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#63
Wow. I thought democrats were suppose to champion minority groups, not demonize them.
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2014
#80
Laws are there because the minority need them to be there. My husband has had to utilize
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2014
#101
Destroying things in the name of "equality" seems somehow misguided.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#75
I don't think they were permanently destroyed. Just taken apart and stored somewhere.
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#92
And nothing is stopping baseball boosters from helping to raise that money, too.
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#91
Someone said they couldn't because the regulation fields are different sizes. nt
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#95
Abolish the girls softball team and field a girls baseball team instead.
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2014
#113
Logically, sports that require different playing fields aren't equivalent.
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2014
#149
When combined with the "zero tolerance" attitude of some administrators ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Apr 2014
#134
why can't the school have a rule that funds raised by parents be split 50-50 for both
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#146