Title IX Tied Our Hands At The Olympics

by Phyllis Schlafly - August 26th, 2008 - Townhall.com

Title IX regulations have forced educational institutions to eliminate men's teams until the number of men and women on sports teams is the same ratio as the number of men and women enrolled in academic classes. In the numerous colleges that are now 60 percent female in academic enrollment, Title IX requires that men's teams be eliminated until only 40 percent of the athletes are men.

Title IX quotas have caused the elimination of all but 19 men's college gymnastics teams. This deprives boys of the scholarship incentive to take up gymnastics as a sport in high school and takes away the competition needed to improve their skills in college.

The effect of this injustice hit us hard in Beijing. The Chinese (who are not restricted by feminist nonsense) destroyed our men's gymnastics team and won seven out of eight gold medals, while our men's gymnastics team failed to win a single gold medal in eight events.

Then there is men's freestyle wrestling, a sport that the United States had repeatedly dominated at the Olympics. Over the years, we had won a very high percentage of medals in wrestling.

But Title IX's gender quotas have forced the elimination of 467 wrestling teams from our colleges. This has nothing to do with lack of funding, since wrestling is one of the most inexpensive of sports, it's due to feminist ideology that demands eliminating macho sports in order to meet the foolish Title IX quotas.

Feminists hate men. Let me repeat that. Feminists hate men. Between the anti-white hatred by blacks and Hispanics and the anti male hatred of feminists, America today is a state of tyranny and denigration for young white males. Of course you will find no one who cares about this in government. Even to suggest it invites ridicule and invective. That does not mean that it is just or fair. It also does not mean it will not ultimately face the same backlash that Jim Crow laws and laws that denied women the vote created. It does not mean that the sanctimonious pride of feminists who got Title IX passed to exact their vengeance on males, will without any doubt be the basis for the gender war that white males will wage in years to come against all females, not just feminists.

The same thing applies to affirmative action and the reparations program proposed by the black Democrat who is their candidate for President this year. Hatred of whites by a 12% minority is an amazing display of arrogance. Does the certainty of a backlash never cross the mind of some of those who are demanding that white males today pay a price, not for what they have done, but for what others did in the past before they were born? Does the premise that these people will get even never become a thought?

Europe has spent centuries with one country after another taking its turn on top and then waiting for the vengeance that came around as certainly as the sun rises every day. America is simply playing this same game of vengeance but with different parameters. The consequences will be just as certain.

Equality of opportunity has become the quota driven equality of results. This is not what America stands for.