Well, he ought to know.
Posted on 03/26/2012 1:42:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
President Barack Obama said he believes the 40-year-old law prohibiting discrimination against women in educational sports programs has "helped to make our society more equal generally."
Obama, in an ESPN interview marking the anniversary of the passage of Title IX, said the law has spurred more coverage of women's sports by the media and more acceptance in general.
"I am a huge believer that sports ends up being good for kids, and especially good for girls. It gives them confidence, it gives them a sense of what it means to compete. Studies show that girls who are involved in athletics often do better in school; they are more confident in terms of dealing with boys," he said.
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this reminds me of animal farm
What a schmuck!
Title IX killed college wrestling. Title IX forces ESPN to show games virtually no one cares about. Title IX forces CBS to hype other games that no one cares about on another network. (I don't know for sure but if you watch a stupid women's basketball game on ESPN do they suggest you tune in to CBS for the men's games?)
One night while I was watching the NCAAs, they went to commercial so I flipped to ESPN to see what they had on. It was some game from the women's tournament. All you could see was the first three rows around three sides of the court as they played. There weren't more than 20 people TOTAL sitting in those first three rows that I could see. And that's probably because most competent freshmen high school teams play better ball.
ML/NJ
Put females, emasculated males and gays in charge of everything. They’re easier to manipulate and 0bamacare will societies children hostage in exchange for compliance. The rate at which America is eroding is directly proportional to the rate at which females, gays and emasculated males have taken control. Title IX’s real purpose is to emasculate boys.. To take the fight out of America’s population, specifically males. To minimize and marginalize their resistance to “CHANGE” or transformation to National Socialism. 0bama ‘CHANGED’ our military for precisely this reason. A NATION OF SHEEP BREEDS A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES. In this case, the sheep are the females, gays and emasculated males.
Some pigs are more equal than others, it seems.............
You can thank Tricky Dick for this.
This may be an unpopular response here at FR and I agree that Title IX has gone too far in eliminating many sports, but I graduated from high school in 1967 and women were simply not allowed to form school supported basketball, swimming, tennis, and golf teams.
The suggestion that women did not want to play competitive sports was simply not true, as soon as women could form teams they did.
This may be an unpopular response here at FR and I agree that Title IX has gone too far in eliminating many sports, but I graduated from high school in 1967 and women were simply not allowed to form school supported basketball, swimming, tennis, and golf teams.
The suggestion that women did not want to play competitive sports was simply not true, as soon as women could form teams they did.
This may be an unpopular response here at FR and I agree that Title IX has gone too far in eliminating many sports, but I graduated from high school in 1967 and women were simply not allowed to form school supported basketball, swimming, tennis, and golf teams.
The suggestion that women did not want to play competitive sports was simply not true, as soon as women could form teams they did.
This may be an unpopular response here at FR and I agree that Title IX has gone too far in eliminating many sports, but I graduated from high school in 1967 and women were simply not allowed to form school supported basketball, swimming, tennis, and golf teams.
The suggestion that women did not want to play competitive sports was simply not true, as soon as women could form teams they did.
Sorry about the multiple posts but I kept getting a prompt that indicated my post had not gone through.
That would have been a valid and worthwhile complaint for parents to take to their local school boards and state education departments.
‘more equal.’ He wanted to say ‘equaler’ but his TelePrompter wouldn’t let him.
POTUS seems to have forgotten that ‘egalite’ is the Frenchies’ slogan.
It is Barry’s ultimate goal above all others, to make things “more equal”. So what if Title IX destroys mens teams in all non-revenue sports all across the countryside.
The same way he said he’d raise the Capital Gains Tax even if it hurt the economy and decreased Federal revenues. To make things “more equal”.
Sports are great for all students. Sports keep male teenagers off the streets and under supervision. Hopefully, the supervision is by adult males who care enough to teach these teens to carry themselves in a way that shows respect for oneself, respect for one’s parents, and respect for others. And most importantly, they need to respect the Creator.
Girls need the same thing.
This has destroyed college wrestling, and now schools are offering crew scholarships to women who have never rowed a stroke in their lives.
Wrestlers, since the age of three, now watch as school after school drops their sport, and there are fewer chances for them to compete.
Everything liberals touch, they destroy. They think they are creating utopia and they only make things worse than they were.
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“I graduated from high school in 1967 and women were simply not allowed to form school supported basketball, swimming, tennis, and golf teams.
The suggestion that women did not want to play competitive sports was simply not true, as soon as women could form teams they did.”
Then you should have taken it to the PTA or the school board, not the feds. Or, better yet, form teams without the school’s sayso. At least then there’d be a chance stupid bureaucrats wouldn’t shut down the popular in favor of the marginal.
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