Originally posted by ctandc:
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Originally posted by ironhorse:
Good article, if its already been posted, sorry....
http://www.grantland.com/story...ship-rather-play-her
Gotta love the “modern” media. First off, since I know someone will go there, someone always does.
I’m not Catholic. I’m all for women playing sports. My wife works. So if you want to make this about me, go for it, I truly could care less.
This article that was linked? The guy is just looking to stir the pot. He makes huge assumptions and calls to judgment. He’s apparently a professional pot-stirrer. His fact-checking could use a little work though…but let’s be real, when has fact-checking been an issue for the modern media? If it’s on the internet, it’s got to be true. Right?
Believe what you want to believe. That’s you’re right. I’m fine with that.
But the facts are that this school checked before the season started to verify if ANY of the schools they competed against fielded female players.
In fact I’ll quote one of the original reports on this from the local new channel where this occurred:
“This isn't the first time the issue has come up. Our Lady of Sorrows pulled out of a flag football tournament before it began last October because some teams had female members, Baum said.
Before the baseball season started, Our Lady of Sorrows asked all of its potential opponents if they had girls on their teams. At that point Mesa Preparatory did not -- Sultzbach came on board later -- so the religious school did not learn of her participation until the first time they played, Baum said.”
So they checked AHEAD OF TIME. All these schools knew it had ALREADY been an issue, when this school pulled out of a flag football tournament.
Come on. Grandstand much? How come it wasn’t an issue when she “voluntarily” sat during the two regular season meetings between the schools?
I feel for the girl. Unfortunately she had become a bit player in a story that is all about everyone else garnering attention and looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
Where were the idiots running this league? Did they not know about this during the regular season meetings? Why wasn’t the second place team behind Lady of Sorrows put into the Championship game?
Did it take a mathematical genius to figure out the POSSIBILITY of this school, with a HISTORY of not competing with girls on the field, meeting the UNDEFEATED school in the state championship?
Do I agree with the views expressed by this school? No. But then I don’t PAY money out of my pocket for my kids to go to that PRIVATE (I love the charter billing, with a line through it in an obviously edited after the fact version of the article quoted above. I’m not from Arizona and it took me 5 minutes to find out this was a PRIVATE school. Lazy much?) SCHOOL.
I don’t have to AGREE with someone’s opinions or beliefs to RESPECT their RIGHT to said opinions or beliefs.
If all the people in our nation would read that line above and at least try to understand it, it would be a much different place.
More of a “good fences make good neighbors” policy than a kumbaya and “hold hands around the fire” policy.
The author of that Grantland piece is about as liberal as it gets. He’s just as bad as the far right. Last I checked most people in this country live and work in the MIDDLE.
If you don’t agree with something, then by all means make personal attacks on people, back up your argument with enough factoids to make it seem plausible, and as long as your reader doesn’t do their due diligence, you have another convert.
Welcome to the herd.
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