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This isn't relevant to the issue at hand, which is about an individual woman who wants to compete. Making statements about all women vs. all men is irrelevant.
Her situation needs to be treated as an individual one. It is the root of all bigotry to make sweeping statements about a class of people and then use that statement to justify the treatment of an individual. It is also lazy intellectually, unconstitutional when turned into policy, and un-American when turned into social norms.
If one of the previous posters is correct and this football player isn't really qualified and is simply creating a promotional opportunity to advance a personal business interest, then she should just be ignored as another person who will corrupt something on the way to personal gain. On the other hand, if she does all the tasks necessary for the job, and does them better than the competition, then she's earned the job.
I don't know what all the angst is about. Let her tryout. Who cares? There is no way she is going to make it based on size and strength alone. There is no reason to exclude her because she is a woman. Physics will take care of it. And for the .0001% of woman that might have the physical size and strength to actually compete in the NFL? Money would make it less desirable as they would make much more playing in some other sport where they could dominate other women. The chance that a woman would ever play in the NFL is nil.
I think the whole thing about a woman being hit on the field is silly. Either she has the size and strength or she doesn't. If she does then she is probably going to be able to take the hits just as well as a man would.
I don't know what all the angst is about. Let her tryout. Who cares? There is no way she is going to make it based on size and strength alone. There is no reason to exclude her because she is a woman. Physics will take care of it. And for the .0001% of woman that might have the physical size and strength to actually compete in the NFL? Money would make it less desirable as they would make much more playing in some other sport where they could dominate other women. The chance that a woman would ever play in the NFL is nil.
I think the whole thing about a woman being hit on the field is silly. Either she has the size and strength or she doesn't. If she does then she is probably going to be able to take the hits just as well as a man would.
This isn't relevant to the issue at hand, which is about an individual woman who wants to compete. Making statements about all women vs. all men is irrelevant.
Her situation needs to be treated as an individual one. It is the root of all bigotry to make sweeping statements about a class of people and then use that statement to justify the treatment of an individual. It is also lazy intellectually, unconstitutional when turned into policy, and un-American when turned into social norms.
If one of the previous posters is correct and this football player isn't really qualified and is simply creating a promotional opportunity to advance a personal business interest, then she should just be ignored as another person who will corrupt something on the way to personal gain. On the other hand, if she does all the tasks necessary for the job, and does them better than the competition, then she's earned the job.
Anyone who read today's Boston Globe saw a story about the MA state wrestling championships. A girl won a state championship, beating a boy from Winchester.
I don't think it will take too many decades before a woman could be a top-32 kicker or punter.
No Necessary Roughness references yet?
wait...let's not forget the poor kids...after all, it's equality for all or bust!!!!~for all of you hell bent on seeing a woman on an NFL playing field competing then you will have to also agree that 12 year old kids belong there too, using the same PC parameters, right?
12 Year Old Kicks 60 Yard Field Goal - YouTube
except that this is going to happen...and then...the genie is out of the bottle...how many billions of times has this happened in the course of human history? it's entropic...you introduce a new variable into a closed system you CHANGE That system irreparably.
it's a shameless pandering play to the emotions of those addicted to the "next new thing!!!" in this whacked out, narcissistic society.
extrapolating this out to further ridiculous parameters, why not try out Labrador retrievers as wide receivers?...they take to command instructions perfectly from the master(QB), have five times the burst and speed of any human NFL receiver and have proven to be absolute masters of the jump and snag frisbee moves...just sub the football for the frisbee and there you go, even MORE new fans to the NFL game gone Three Stooges loony.
Sorry, Joker, but you've got to the absurd.. The 12 year old would only qualify if they'd been out of HS for 3 years...
Good for her, but realistically she'll never make it. You have to be a freak athlete to play in the NFL. A woman in top physical condition will not be more athletic than a man in top physical condition.
This thread topic is the absurdity.
To your point....
Moshe Kai Cavalin, The 11-Year-Old College Graduate With 4.0 GPA (VIDEO)
the kid is an accomplished martial artist also.....LET'S GIVE HIM A SHOT!!!..after all, he meets the criteria.
How is it intellectually lazy, unconstitutional and un-American to duly recognize and honor inherent gender differences? By your definition, the WNBA is institutionalized bigotry. Men and women are equal but different, and certainly aren't "interchangeable" in all of life's pursuits. Sometimes, common sense trumps PC idealism.
You make some fair points. But there is a good reason most sports are segregated along gender lines and women definitely should be excluded from the NFL for reasons that are quite clear. (They DO have their own tackle football leagues.) As I mentioned in an earlier post, someone on the NFL level has given this ludicrous fantasy legs (no pun intended). Seems like exploitative pandering no one needs.