Comments on: A clarion call for Title IX reform http://www.wendyparker.org/2012/05/a-clarion-call-for-title-ix-reform/ Discoveries, rants and comfort-food cravings of a sports omnivore. Sat, 18 May 2013 15:37:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bern http://www.wendyparker.org/2012/05/a-clarion-call-for-title-ix-reform/#comment-8981 Bern Sun, 06 May 2012 07:06:11 +0000 http://www.wendyparker.org/?p=4261#comment-8981 Good take, as usual. Problem is that you're a voice crying in the wilderness on Title IX. Seems to me that the women's sports intelligentsia continues to feel that their progress over the past forty years just means they should push that much harder for more of the same. I assume you read the ESPNW pieces and blog comments on Title IX. The true believers aren't going anywhere. If anything they're flipping the bird to everyone that doesn't agree them, including you by name. I also agree that the Independent Women's Forum is way over on the Right, but they are generally accurate in their piece. The issue as I see it is the IWF 's "core problem" of Men and Women not being the same flies directly in the face of the bedrock gender feminist theory of the social construction of sexuality which of course most of those in charge of women's sports administration and compliance are fully invested in. So it looks to me the only way to approach it is full speed & head on. They would rather melt everything down than change. Given the tone and frequency of the less than positive comments on the ESPNW blog relative to Title IX it seems we are probably seeing some momentum being built on the side of reasonableness. We'll see how it goes. I'm thinking that more truth needs to be told. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. We'll be working on getting more information out there in the near future. You should think about putting your views in book form. Good take, as usual. Problem is that you’re a voice crying in the wilderness on Title IX. Seems to me that the women’s sports intelligentsia continues to feel that their progress over the past forty years just means they should push that much harder for more of the same. I assume you read the ESPNW pieces and blog comments on Title IX. The true believers aren’t going anywhere. If anything they’re flipping the bird to everyone that doesn’t agree them, including you by name.

I also agree that the Independent Women’s Forum is way over on the Right, but they are generally accurate in their piece. The issue as I see it is the IWF ’s “core problem” of Men and Women not being the same flies directly in the face of the bedrock gender feminist theory of the social construction of sexuality which of course most of those in charge of women’s sports administration and compliance are fully invested in.

So it looks to me the only way to approach it is full speed & head on. They would rather melt everything down than change. Given the tone and frequency of the less than positive comments on the ESPNW blog relative to Title IX it seems we are probably seeing some momentum being built on the side of reasonableness.

We’ll see how it goes. I’m thinking that more truth needs to be told. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. We’ll be working on getting more information out there in the near future.

You should think about putting your views in book form.

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