Racial and Gender Report Card (Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport)

Woo Hoo! Now maybe misogynistic rednecks will flock to league matches in record number!!!

 

You know I'm going to get real mad if I find out that the other leagues get more points because they have cheerleaders. Additionally, no other league has to deal with the fact that they have a women's league that is a COMPETITOR. Apples and oranges.

 

Maybe Martha will be showing up soon.

 

So much for soccer being a women's sport.

 

I broke out laughing when I read this in the paper. Press releases from feminist pressure groups are often reprinted without question as to methodology or agenda. Do a google news search after one of these missives hits the presses and you will see what I mean. Newspaper after newspaper reprints the press release under their own byline, with minor modification.
I think this "study" is way off base. It gives the NBA an A for diversity, even though it is perhaps the least diverse pro league. The NBA is 92% black. That does not sound too diverse to me. It is however a meritocracy; the best players get drafted. I think most Americans would like to see merit count for more than diversity, but that is not always the case.
Giving the MLS an F shows the hostility some feminists have towards men's soccer. Nothing is more politically incorrect than men playing soccer. Not long ago, folks posted an article claiming that the MLS was the most female-friendly of the men's leagues, attractive 39 per cent female fans. Anyone who has gone to an MLS game has probably seen lots of soccer moms and families, young girls who play in youth leagues and so on. Why give the MLS an F when other pro leagues attract far fewer female fans and employ a smaller percentage of female staff?
Just my opinions.

 

5.....4......3.......2......

 

Someone here's missing more points than Liverpool in December...

 

Is it just me or does everyone else get the Ivillage adds on this thread. Eriee

 

People interested in this issue may want to pick up a copy of a new book: "Diversity, the Invention of a Concept." by Peter Wood. He writes about various think tanks and their goals and has some very interesting conclusions. I have just started reading it.

 

Can you wait until you're finished to pimp it? Or do you already know what it's going to say because it follows your own predescribed ideology?

 

I am not tyring to "pimp" it. If people are interested in this thread they may be interested in the book. It was favorably reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, which is not necessarily a good thing in my book! From the early going it seems he claims that diversity has drawn even with merit and other virtues. It is a heavy book with zillions of footnotes, so I can't promise that I will finish it!

 

You guys don't want to do this. Trust me, you don't want to do this.

Hey, how 'bout those Cubs?

 

You mean we don't want to overanalyze an academic report about the business world put together by someone who probably hasn't held a job that doesn'y include summers off in 30 years?

 

No, I mean you don't want to get someone started.

 

Seems like a load of subjective crap... The NFL received a D- for a score of 58.7 for gender while the MLS got an F with a score of 57.4. So where do they drawn the line for an F, 58.0? The only reason that this has any bearing on anything is that this may give some negative pub on the league, making it look inferior to the other leagues. I wonder why they didn't take a look at the WUSA?

 

Interesting to learn that two of MLS's head coaches in 2002 were counted as minorities. Zambrano and who else?

Incidentally, MLS gets an "A" for having 96% female support staff, while the NBA gets an "A+" for having 78% minority players.

 

Maybe Clavijo?

Unless they count Frank Yallop since he's a Canadian.

 

Does this mean that the league is going to adopt the asinine approach to diversity that the NFL has, i.e. a quota on minority interviews for coaching vacancies?

I deficate on this report.

 

And Steve Nicol.

Fat Sigi maybe? Is the Hutt species a minority?

 

PAGE 2 !!!

 

I can't help but feel sorry for all the white men who may lose their jobs because of this biting research. Is anyone thinking about the women and minorities that will be affected if these guys lose their job?

I knew Carol Mosely Braun was more qualified than Dave Sarachan for the Fire's head coaching position, but I just didn't speak up. I could have made a difference!

 

Hmmm
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=1024803#post1024803

 

Oh, so we're not allowed to talk amongst ourselves.

Grow the ************ up, Andy.