Comments on: Cathy Young on Quinnipiac cheerleading trial

By: Court: competitive cheerleading not varsity sport

Court: competitive cheerleading not varsity sport — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:19:54 +0000

[…] Thus achieving two of feminist litigators’ goals at once: 1) sending a message that cheerleading is not a government-approved aspiration for young women; 2) further humbling men’s college sports, since quota incentives are now likely to bring renewed pressure for budget and roster cuts at universities like Quinnipiac. Congratulations! [Inside Higher Ed, earlier here and here] […]

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:40:35 +0000

which means a number of available positions proportional to the number of students of each gender.

No. The number of available positions should be based on interest in a sport in general.

There are schools that just make up varsity sports to fill the quota, whether there is a demand for the sport or not.

Sports were not always “varsity” sports. There were intra mural and club teams that moved up to the “varsity” / school sponsored level. Title IX does away with that. It looks at the students and says “you need this” rather than the students saying “we want this.”

Or “you will be a part of this” rather than “we want to be a part of it.”

Title IX makes the false assumption that all students are the same and all genders have the same interests.

By: James Aaron

James Aaron — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:52:13 +0000

In other words, I am all for everyone having the opportunity to participate in college athletics. I am against the law artificially forcing colleges or any school to force institutions to have sports for either gender to fill a quota.

As long as some sports are reserved for particular genders, as they typically should be, schools are going to need provide an equal opportunity to play, which means a number of available positions proportional to the number of students of each gender.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:46:14 +0000

“The refusal to recognize and treat it is a sport is also exposing the children who participate to greater risk of injury”

How so?

By: Ps

Ps — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:12:54 +0000

One solution is simply to make sport and athletics mandatory for all female college students. Failure to participate would result in automatic expulsion. That way Title IX gets what it wants and its proponents are made to realise just how stupid they are.

By: blhlls

blhlls — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:18:38 +0000

Anyone who doesn’t think that cheerleading is as much a sport as many others is clearly refusing to give due credit to the activity based on old stereotypes rather than current reality. The refusal to recognize and treat it is a sport is also exposing the children who participate to greater risk of injury. As it is generally the participating girls, rather than boys, who go up in the air, that increased risk is disproportionately born by the participating girls. I know parents who have forbidden their daughters from participating in cheerleading as a result. As these girls are not interested in the other athletic programs available, they no longer participate in any school athletic activity. I don’t see how anyone can consider this an advance in equal opportunity.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:46:11 +0000

shouldn’t they be making up more of college athletics?

I would hope you would agree that there is a difference between voluntarily making up more of college athletics and being forced to make up more of college athletics.

By: James Aaron

James Aaron — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:59:13 +0000

If over half of college students are women, as is the case in many schools today, shouldn’t they be making up more of college athletics?