Because teams are self-selected, they are not nearly equal in talent, and one of the girls' teams was made up of a trio that had led our girls' basketball team to the state tournament and would lead a local college team to the national title game a few years hence (in Women's Volleyball, I believe). They were taller than us, in better shape than us, and had played multiple ball-control sports together for several years. Call them Team Amazon. And we were to play them last.Equality of any kind does not exist. It is a myth. Take it no more seriously than unicorns or the Labor Theory of Value.
The Hosebags mowed through the lesser girls' teams, as did Team Amazon, and it didn't take long to get around the school that the last game was going to be an intergender battle of undefeateds for the title. Yeah, we were pumped. And we were scared. Though there would have been no shame in losing to the three best multiple-sport female athletes in the school ... no, no excuses, there was no way we were going to lose this game. Our reputations, our very manhood, depended on it.
The day of the big game came. The gym was about half full (about par for a varsity BBall game) and the Hosebags took the floor. And we took the game. We got scored on once or twice, but we scored nearly every time we had the ball and within 10 minutes were so far ahead the girls frankly gave up.
Then Mr. Hart gave them the trophy. They are the champions, my friends.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
This is feminist "equality"
Keep this little story in mind every time someone tries to appeal to equality to justify one thing or another:
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Wow! Quitters are rewarded with the championship trophy!
Because equality!!!
I read the guy's original post and it sounds like it was a kobayashi maru situation - no way to really win, except maybe not to have played in the first place.
Sounds like the real problem was Mr Hart just being a large type asshole. Equally was merely a side effect.
@GF Dad,
That is true anytime a male competes against a female. It is always no-win for the male.
If he "wins" then he is a bully and a meanie, and he gets no credit because all he did was beat a girl. Go pick on someone your own size!
If he loses then he is a eunuch and a big giant pussy who got beaten by a girl.
@Dexter - agreed. The only way to win is to not play by their rules. If a man refuses to engage in this silliness, he will still be called a puss, but at that point it's on them. He can change the rules by exposing the trap for what it is, taking his lumps, and moving on.
His SMV will be diminished slightly but the lesson learned will more than make up for it in time - avoid the gamma (Mr. Hart).
This version of equality would be like a sports team demanding the rules change to accomodage a weak part of their game, then getting miffed that the other teams okay different.
Move the 3 point line closer, then act surprised when any team but your own shoots more of them.
Demand a smaller strike zone so you don't strike out as much, then whine about all the home runs and walks the other team starts racking up.
Demand a matriarchal hypergamous environment whereever you go and whatever you do, then wonder why men are no longer manning up and treating you like a lady no matter the incentives or your behavior.
Change the rules to accommodate yourself, and others will adapt accordingly. In the words of most people with a details decent IQ, "duh."
Play, not okay, damn auto complete
The mistake they made, being young men for the most part, is that they took the game seriously.
They should have racked up a couple quick baskets, then had some fun Harlem Globetrotter style. Make the game fun for the girls too. Postpone the time where they quit as long as possible.
No hotdogging and high-fiving each other.
I know this was many years ago, but the lessons we can learn still apply in our jobs, in our relationships, in our game.
Play, not okay, damn auto complete
You can hardly blame auto complete. You're the one who didn't turn it off.
You can hardly blame auto complete. You're the one who didn't turn it off.
So true. It's like when people complain about Facebook apps posting on their behalf *facepalm*.
This is what equality looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szQA5_6PQls
speaking of rigged games and feminists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PeU8TFC4LQ
"The mistake they made, being young men for the most part, is that they took the game seriously.
They should have racked up a couple quick baskets, then had some fun Harlem Globetrotter style. Make the game fun for the girls too. Postpone the time where they quit as long as possible.
No hotdogging and high-fiving each other.
I know this was many years ago, but the lessons we can learn still apply in our jobs, in our relationships, in our game."
So even THIS is the male's fault...really?
Not a SINGLE word about the other team quitting rather than finishing (heck a trophy for "trying" that people are so fond of nowadays didn't even apply there!), or how maybe the girl team should have said "no, we lost, it goes to the winners" ya know, like an honourable set of males probably would have done.. Nope, not a single word, JUST criticising how the men were "wrong" and what the men "should have done"..
Win and be criticised, lose and be criticised. Is it a wonder many men are simply "not playing" anymore?
At least blaming auto cucumber helps inspire other blog posts. :)
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