Friday, September 29, 2006

I Want to Play

O.K. apparently there is a double standard when it comes to playing high school sports in Winnipeg. It appears that a girl can play boys sports because the girl’s team, and I quote “is a joke and some players have trouble simply skating” but a boy can’t play on a girl’s team even though there is no boy’s team in a certain sport at that school.

That was a ruling from a human rights commission. I sorry if I’m going to offend some people for my standpoint on this subject but fuck it. It has to be said.

You can’t rule one way and let Girls play boys sports because the Girls don’t believe the girl’s team is good enough for them, and then turn around and say that the boys can’t play on a girls team. That to me is bullshit. How could you rationalize that decision? I mean come on how stupid can you be you, open up this door with the best of intentions to let these twin girls an opportunity to play at a higher caliber of hockey (before you jump all over me about that statement, that was basically the quote from the girls themselves) and not expect some people to revolt and try to get on girls teams, and it’s not like these boys are looking to leave there boys teams, these boys don’t have any boy’s teams to play on. They just saw an opportunity to play a sport they love, even if it’s on a girl’s team.

Let the boys play. Or reverse your decision and don’t let the girls play on boy’s team. Women fought long and hard to make everything equal, maybe it’s time for men to fight to make stuff equal if they’re going to make decisions like this. What next are they going to take away men’s right to vote? EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL GENDERS.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In the grand scheme of things does it really matter what team you play on? What happened to playing a game for FUN?? People have gotten far too worried about whether or not their kid is going to be the next DOMI...and well he ain't all that he's cracked up to be now is he!!! Isn't there more than just gender discrimination on these teams? What about putting kids on teams do to their ability level? Why not group them by age? Seemed to work when I was a kid! See there is a good reason I am not a hockey MOM....