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okokok
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: sex discrimination in sport |
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In Canada, these twin girls were refused the opportunity to try out for a boys team.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2006/09/22/hockey-decision.html
In the end they were allowed to try out and they won $3500 bucks each as well as free one-on-one coaching lessons.
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The MHSAA must also compensate Amy and Jesse $3,500 each in damages for "injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect."
As well, the association must provide the girls with one-on-one coaching sessions and one session of hockey camp, to "compensate the twins for the loss of skills they have suffered."
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I have further heard that they tried out and were cut. As they feel they are too good for the girls team, they will not be playing hockey this year.
Since this decision, 20 boys in this district have demanded to be allowed to play on girls teams (most of them are in sports where the school doesn't have a boys team in their chosen sport i.e. curling- is that a sport?)
Anyways, I guess these two girls aren't that great of players and nobody even heard of them before all of this. Most people believe this could really hurt girls sport. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Those boys demanding to play on laides' teams will be like Cameron from _Ferris Bueller's Day Off"-they will settle for any piece they can get. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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That's ridiculous. There are sports like swimming and tennis, where males and females have similar abilities. Then there are sports like hockey where they don't. Ice hockey also requires lots of dressing and undressing, thus inconveniencing everyone on a mixed team.
If I ever have a son in Canada and want $3,500 I guess I can just try to sign him up for synchronised swimming? |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The boys should counter-sue. I mean, isn't this attempt to denature them an injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect? |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| That is rediculous. They say the main argument is that they should be able to play with people of their ability. What about boys who can't make the boys team but would make the girls team? |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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It's going to backfire in twenty years-- what if school systems decided that the litigation isn't worth the hassle and made all sports co-ed?
Many girls would be at a disadvantage.. until, of course, some Canadian judge ordered that the stronger boys have weights strapped to their feet to slow them down.
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atlhockey
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Jeonju City
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| There are sports like swimming and tennis, where males and females have similar abilities. |
...swimming is probably not a good example.
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| Then there are sports like hockey where they don't. Ice hockey also requires lots of dressing and undressing, thus inconveniencing everyone on a mixed team. |
Nobody's saying that the team should be forced to KEEP them. The point is that they should have to let them TRY OUT. If they aren't good enough, everybody at the tryout can see that. Probably better to say "men" and "women" too. The younger you go, the more likely it is that the girls at any given age group are just as big, fast and skilled as the boys. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| I bet alot of boys are now wishing there was a girls' wrestling team at their highschool. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| I bet alot of boys are now wishing there was a girls' wrestling team at their highschool. |
only now-clairfy |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| tennis, where males and females have similar abilities. ? |
Not a good example. |
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