Hey, I am a woman and I think football is fun and exciting to watch. But I also love brains and hate neurodegenerative diseases. If there is a way to keep football, football, and reduce the risk that the guy you cheer for will be stuttering and peeing his pants at 55, I’m all for it. I actually used to watch boxing before I knew what it did and then lost all interest. Any sport CAN give you concussions but when sports are routinely doing so, I’m all about changing up something to reduce the risk.
No argument with anything you say.
My point is that football, from pee-wee leagues to the NFL, is under siege, under siege by the Left, for what it says about the differences between men and women. The ultimate goal in what we are seeing here is not just making football safer, as admirable and necessary as progress in this area happens to be. Now might be a good time to call for a time out.
Radical feminism and the gender wars are part the Left's decades-long war on the family unit. These people can multi-task with the best of them. Admittedly, much good can come of this, but how many causes in the name of legitimate good become co-opted and usurped for the benefit of "progress" among those on the Left?
Along with the lesbian kiss, it seems mandatory now for TV shows to depict 110 pound women defeating much larger males, even big, strapping ones, physically. Though seemingly innocuous, I worry about this very dangerous subliminal message to our children.
Political power is the end, and abortion, thrusting women to the front lines of the military, the elimination of chivalry and male protective instincts are implements in the ruse. Part of what conservatism exists to "conserve" are these very roles that lend themselves to societal betterment.
I know I was being cryptic and vague in my post, but I don't want to lose football. It is perhaps one of the last places left, now that women are moving to the front lines of the military,, that men can still be men.
Same here. I'm a huge football fan. But it's quite possible that in 10 years from now, I may no longer follow the sport because I would be repulsed by it.