Join NowAre we teaching our women a different game? NM/BYU
Posted 06 Nov 2009 at 07:07 PM by thebes20
Curious question, I have seen young girls play soccer and when they are tackled, a lot of them jump back up and play on, while in my son's games, the player might have the same thing happen, but his response is to try and milk the infraction for a card. If this was a professional men's game, then, you know that the player would have fallen like a sack of rocks and rolled around on the ground trying to get a card. The stretchers would have been on the field. Do we tell our daughters to "man up" and our sons to flop and get the card? Is the way the women play the game different than the men? Do they try to be tougher? You know that there is not a male player that would have stood for that sort of physical play from another opponent for that long. Is the way the women view the game, and the men different? Do the women try and be tougher to impress the coach, and the men try and be drama queens in order to impress the coach?
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A fall is a fall. I grown man doesn't hit the ground any harder than a child, a girl or a woman in a soccer game. Only the youngest will unashamedly walk right off the field to mommy or daddy on the sideline. Otherwise boys and girls don't know any better than to get over it quickly and play on.
I don't believe we're teaching our women a different game than men. More than anything it is a slackness with authority, the rules of the game, that's opened the door for all manner of cheap stuff to enter the game. Anyone who did some of that on the street should expect serious legal and illegal repercussions on the street.
My wife and I watched our daughters play soccer from grade school to college age. Our family engaged in the discussion of the New Mexico player's bizarre actions. The slackness with authority of which I speak is evident in the coaches and referees to allow what is not soccer to happen on the field. Does it go on because referees can't stop it or could it be something else. We agreed that perhaps coaches and referee patronize women's play. That is, women don't know any better. Women can't play. I suggested, and my wife agreed there may be some truth to it, it is a perverseness. As perverse deeds go no one is to complain and no one is to say anything lest they bring on a chorus of boo hoos, or worse, getting benched.
If you want to see my point corroborated look at the guys who think it's cool. Girl fight! I wonder how many referees get off on physical exchanges between women on the field. The typical response by guys when confronted on their own perverseness is to claim they were just kidding. You buy that?
I will put it back on the women themselves. Athletes live under the adage, coach may not always be right, but he's always coach. A coach who tells his players to man up ought himself to be ready to man up when he is confronted by his players for his slackness with authority whether on the field or in life; whether an NFL or college coach. It's not that women want to impress coach with their toughness. Rather, it's that too often coach is oblivious. Who hasn't seen NFL coaches go ballistic when their quarterback takes one cheap shot after another? Get up, ladies. Stand up!Posted 07 Nov 2009 at 01:25 AM by Soquete 
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