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A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might 'retaliate' if they lost to the girls team.

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[-] DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca 185 points 3 months ago

Once again, girls are somehow responsible for boys’ inability to behave 🤦

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Once again there appears to be more to this story than the poor quality article linked suggests.

[-] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 3 months ago

Here's the quotes:

SWOB President Tom Sunderman expressed concern in a statement:

"Doing this for 28 years, what we have worried about is a boys team losing to a girls team (especially in the year end tourney), they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl." "Then we have liability issues.” Prez, a social media user on X (Formerly Twitter), didn't buy it.

"What he meant to say was they can’t have their boys being emasculated by a better girls team… it would be a blow to their developing manhood to get beat by girls."

What context am I missing?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

Retaliating against your opponents for beating you in a game isn't normal, but on Patriarchy it is.

Patriarchy, not even once.

[-] golli@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Once again, girls are somehow responsible for boys’ inability to behave

That's really not what i am getting from this article at all.

made the call because they believed that 11 to 12-year-old girls and boys competing against each other on the court could pose a liability risk leading to violence, even though the girls team had been winning 7-1 all season without incident.

they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl.” "Then we have liability issues.”

McGraw said the girls were never in any real danger during the games, aside from the occasional side-eye.

"They got giggles, they got laughs, and people talked about them... you know, the looks."

[emphasis added]

Where "once again" is the boys inability to behave? All i see is adults wanting to dodge POTENTIAL liability.


Beyond that there is the question about their participation in the league itself. Here there are as i see it two sides:

  • They participated through deception (listing as mail AND apparently fielding a male team in the first game)

  • Or one can be on the side that the system is broken and they should have been allowed to participate in the first place.

Again something that adults decide. Not sure if we have enough information to judge this properly.


Not sure why i spend much time on this nonesense, especially since i find this to be a pretty poor article (as is any that just randomly quotes social media users to make its point).

this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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