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[pat]

Over the past two decades, the number of wrestling teams at NCAA schools has dropped from 363 to 222, while football teams increased from 497 to 619, according to the NCAA. Title IX has been blamed for part of the decline.

So of course, it's all the fault of those uppity women wanting their sports. Who do they think they are, athletes?

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Wait. . . the sport that has a division for women has declined, while the sport that doesn't has increased, and that's Title IX's fault?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Yep, funny how that works.

[princeofwands.livejournal.com]

That's an easy stone to throw, but even if there is a correlation between the changes in wrestling programs and football programs I can see easily where the limitations imposed by artificial proportions do still drive those kinds of problems. Title IX has done orders of magnitude more good than it creates problems, but it isn't a perfect solution, and while it's not yet the time to completely throw it away (I think the natural forces involved aren't yet balanced and stable), is this not the mechanism that revision and eventual removal are addressed?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Shh, don't say that so loud or next they'll start thinking they're people.