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The Consequences of Lying to Girls
My son attends a prep school. It is liberal, but not quite as liberal as the two neighboring girls’ schools. There is a rivalry between the schools, only slightly complicated by the fact that the girls’ schools have some students who think they are boys.
The girls at one school, which happens to play dodgeball competitively within the school, decided to organize a tri-school contest. Challenging the boys. They were certain they were going to win. They marched out with great pomp and splendor. Teams were set at 20 girls to 16 boys.
Of course, they were destroyed. From the very beginning, when the lines rushed for balls, the girls decided not to sprint full tilt at the 220+ pound ogres who were coming right at them. Even my son, who is not only white but Jewish, and thus embarrassingly awful at ball games, went 2-0.
Which leaves us with a question: do girls really believe the nonsense in the movies and shows, where toothpick-sized girls routinely knock out 250-pound men? It seems that they do.
I find it amazing that upper-crust, highly educated 18-year-old girls can ignore all data to the contrary, and believe that they are going to win a game of dodgeball against 18-year-old boys. I hope the result was educational.
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Under-rated comment.
Ouch. ( And how! )
People don’t seem to understand that sports are designed as a test of extreme maleness. Knowing this, why would anyone think that males do not have an advantage?
If there’s a men’s Italian pole-vault, I don’t want to know.
Meh on your meh. Sometimes the contribution can be sports related. See Moe Berg.
Great post. In a broader sense, I think the conversation may need to be about the consequences of lying to children, because I believe the malfeasance goes both ways.
Absolutely correct. Considering the facts that:
it’s hardly surprising that today’s children grow up in a distorted and mixed-up world with no fixed points, a world in which they can reinvent themselves, often in the unhealthiest ways, every single day.
Again, spot on. Humans used to recognize that men and women each have qualities that make them special, and which–when combined in a healthy relationship, complement each other and form a whole.
Unfortunately, and cruelly, they’ve been taught to believe that their femininity has no value, and that to succeed in life they must enter into, play, and win, on the boys’ playing field. Conversely, when masculine traits and activities in boys are deprecated and discouraged, and young men are encouraged to get in touch with their “feminine side” to an unhealthy degree, they are just as damaged.
A good reminder of how life should be lived from the Vizslas. (Beautiful dogs.)
Obviously girls and boys, also men and women are different.
Why just the other day I heard on the BBC that a new study from the European Space Agency found that women are better suited to a long, “grueling” mission to Mars, so an all female crew would be best. A (female) reporter checked on this by interviewing a retired (female) NASA astronaut who explained that because women are smaller than men, in space “women are using less (sic) resources and produce less waste.”
Well, that settles it! Mars Needs Women!
When Walter Cronkite covered the first moon landing for CBS, he had science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein as guest commentators.
Heinlein left Cronkite speechless (and Clarke laughing), when he suggested that we should have sent four small women, instead of three large men!
Sports started out as training for warriors; i.e., guys.
On the other hand, in ancient Greece, young girls under 15 engaged in running competitions with other girls.
Trying to get away from the men?
That was the boys.
Probably the opposite, come to think of it. Showing off her health and vigor would make a girl a more desirable potential wife, in the “produce lots of healthy sons” sense.
It would go viral on social media.
I’d love to see how the transgender students at the girls’ schools did?
I vaguely recall that when I was in late elementary school living near Cape Canaveral during the peak of the Gemini and Apollo missions, NASA considered for the astronaut corps middle aged mothers of multiple children, for their ability to handle stress, and their ability to multi-task.
But middle-aged mothers of multiple children, probably aren’t so small any more…
Begin training a male crew for the voyage to Venus. [BTW. I refuse to entertain the thought that a gay crew should be selected for the exploration of Uranus.]
On the other hand, trips such as to Mars or Venus would likely take months. Would months-long missions in zero-gravity require post-menopausal women?
Would tiny men do a better job? Also, wouldn’t all the women start to fight with each other two weeks in?
Mrs iwe is.
Mrs iWe is awesome!
Keep in mind that everyone we send to Mars will probably die.
Everyone we DON’T send to Mars, dies.
Do I have to do everything around here?
Oh, and:
And Pow Wow Chow. 😉
When my son was starting 8th grade the class had a session at a park with zip lining, etc. The school sent a letter home warning the kids that they would be outdoors all day. For my son the Boy Scout (back when the Boy Scouts were still the Boy Scouts), no problem. I realized for many kids that it was a new experience.