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Actually, it is. Equality is when everything balances.
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But even if you don't accept that premise, what do you suppose provides and pays for the opportunities for women via sports programs? It is the funding derived from men's sports. Many universities find themselves forced to drop revenue-earning men's sports under pressure from various sources, of which Title IX is not insignificant.
A healthy men's sports program enables a healthy women's sports program.
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Title IX needs to be amended by removing collegiate athletics from under it's control.
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It's all about the money. Money generated from mens sports go to the university and is used to help fund other sports programs and also to help funding for academic areas on campus. College sports is a huge business and womens sports are a debit. And it provides women an opportunity to participate on a collegiate level that wasn't there to begin with. Now answer this: How about addressing the original point of this thread? Why is it forced upon mens programs when there is not as much interest in the participation on the womens' part? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that and explain why it's still a good idea.
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1. It allows for students to participate as athletes. 2. It enables students to go to college, through scholarships which provide opportunities that may not have otherwise been available. 3. It contributes to a college atmosphere by contributing to a fundamental aspect of American culture. Title IX definitely opens the doors for many women, per factors 1 and 2. I question whether the costs to men are presently worth the benefits being given to women. That's not to say that Title IX has not done a lot of good. I don't think the idea should be altogether discarded, but it should be modified to provide a greater benefit to both men and women.
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The only women's athletic programs in the nation that aren't sucking away funds from their athletic deparments are marketing directly to the lesbian populations in the area. Bottom line, women do not share the same interest as men in sports, and they cannot physically perform at the same level as men in sports. Therefore, women's sports can't draw an audience that will support the cost, without marketing thems as a sexual commodity. I don't see that as an improvement. Title IX has not caused "a few mens' programs [to] suffer in the present." It has made some men's programs completely obsolete. Title IX defies the basic laws of supply and demand, and flies in the face of all logic. IMO there is not ONE VALID REASON for limiting funds for a profit producing sport to feed funds into a program that actually costs money to operate. If women want to have equal funding for athletics then they need to be able to put on a performance that brings in a profit. Otherwise we're looking at an attitude of: "I want what I didn't earn, what I can't produce on my own, and I'm going to take it, regardless of the harm that may be inflicted on others, because I think it's not fair that I don't have EXACTLY as much as someone else." If they had required at least 15%, even 25% of funds to go to women's programs that would have been more palatable but HALF? HALF of the money to programs that can't produce EVEN ONE CENT IN PROFIT? That's what I call greed, and coveting. |
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You've done it! There's the answer right there! That's the only thing that will increase spectator interest in women's sports.
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