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RE: Teen golfer placed 1st in golf tournament, denied the trophy because she's a girl
October 27, 2017 at 8:51 pm
(October 27, 2017 at 1:52 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I dunno, I can kind of understand. It's the boy's team.
If a boy joined a girl's sports team and won, and he got to go to the girl's championship instead of the girl who was second behind him, I don't think people would like it too much. Understandably. Isn't this a bit of a double standard?
I am a fan of women's sports, and some guy's sports. I'm a 41yo guy, so take it for what it is. I do actually favor the separation of genders where applicable (title of competition, mainly). A few years ago, back in Pennsylvania, there was some controversy in girl's field hockey, IIRC, where one HS team had three boys on it, because there was no boy's team. That actually makes me cringe. Women should be entitled to their own teams, full stop. At SDSU, we have men's golf and women's golf. Separate. And pretty good. Women don't have to try out for men's teams. Some females like to, I understand that. But I feel like if I were female, I'd want to be on an all-female team, and entering in boys' tourneys would be settling for something less, even if I won.
But, I'm a just a guy who likes women's sports at least equally to men's.
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RE: Teen golfer placed 1st in golf tournament, denied the trophy because she's a girl
October 27, 2017 at 9:27 pm
Something is fundamentally insane about the fact that they allowed her to play, but solely because of her gender, she was not allowed to win.
If she was not allowed to win, why was she allowed to play?
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RE: Teen golfer placed 1st in golf tournament, denied the trophy because she's a girl
October 27, 2017 at 9:30 pm
(October 27, 2017 at 9:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Something is fundamentally insane about the fact that they allowed her to play, but solely because of her gender, she was not allowed to win.
If she was not allowed to win, why was she allowed to play?
My guess is the school didn't have enough guys for a full team roster.
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RE: Teen golfer placed 1st in golf tournament, denied the trophy because she's a girl
October 27, 2017 at 10:20 pm
(October 27, 2017 at 9:30 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (October 27, 2017 at 9:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Something is fundamentally insane about the fact that they allowed her to play, but solely because of her gender, she was not allowed to win.
If she was not allowed to win, why was she allowed to play?
My guess is the school didn't have enough guys for a full team roster.
Shit, if you want to exclude people, just do that. And BE CONSISTENT. Don't give them hope that their efforts count by allowing them to play if the rules will disqualify you from winning. The fact that there's evidently separate criteria for getting in and winning just makes everything needlessly idiotic.
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RE: Teen golfer placed 1st in golf tournament, denied the trophy because she's a girl
October 27, 2017 at 11:09 pm
(October 27, 2017 at 8:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: (October 27, 2017 at 1:01 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I didn't know golf was supposed to be a man only sport. Yeah, real manly to whack a tiny ball across a field. I can kind of understand football, because you're being body slammed by other people, but golf? Really?
Those liquid filled golf balls contain a deadly poison and/or a terrible acid that can dissolve ANYTHING !!!
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