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Mina Johnson is the first girl to play football for Southampton Academy in Virginia — and she’s a starter who racked up four sacks in a single game earlier this year.
But despite her talent, Mina was forced to sit out two games this football season because of a backwards rule: She wasn’t allowed to play because she’s a girl.
Football teams from two rival schools threatened to forfeit their games against Southampton’s Raiders if Mina played. Both teams are part of the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association, a conference that doesn’t allow girls to play on boy’s teams — even if no equivalent team exists for girls.
Adrienne Smith and her teammates on the U.S. National Tackle Football team were appalled when they heard Mina’s story. That’s why they started a petition on Change.org demanding the conference change its policy to comply with Title IX and allow any capable girl to play football.
While boys still outnumber girls in high school sports, Title IX has helped level the playing field dramatically over the past 40 years. Researchers studying the regulation’s impact have shown that girls who participate in sports are more active, do better in school, and go to college in higher numbers than girls who don’t play sports. It’s hard to imagine any school or conference would want to roll back that progress.
If enough people join Adrienne’s campaign protesting the unfair treatment Mina received, the conference will have to change its policy — allowing Mina to play against its teams next year, and making sports more accessible for girls across North Carolina.
According to her coach, Mina is “an example for the team of how to hustle and work hard.” It’s time for the North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association to support female student athletes like Mina, and let them play.
This petition is to tell the NCISAA to honor the regulations set forth in Title IX, which forbid gender discrimination in sports, by changing NCISAA policy to allow girls and boys to play together when only one team exists for a given sport.
Sign the petition in the link provided: www.change.org/petitions/north…
But despite her talent, Mina was forced to sit out two games this football season because of a backwards rule: She wasn’t allowed to play because she’s a girl.
Football teams from two rival schools threatened to forfeit their games against Southampton’s Raiders if Mina played. Both teams are part of the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association, a conference that doesn’t allow girls to play on boy’s teams — even if no equivalent team exists for girls.
Adrienne Smith and her teammates on the U.S. National Tackle Football team were appalled when they heard Mina’s story. That’s why they started a petition on Change.org demanding the conference change its policy to comply with Title IX and allow any capable girl to play football.
While boys still outnumber girls in high school sports, Title IX has helped level the playing field dramatically over the past 40 years. Researchers studying the regulation’s impact have shown that girls who participate in sports are more active, do better in school, and go to college in higher numbers than girls who don’t play sports. It’s hard to imagine any school or conference would want to roll back that progress.
If enough people join Adrienne’s campaign protesting the unfair treatment Mina received, the conference will have to change its policy — allowing Mina to play against its teams next year, and making sports more accessible for girls across North Carolina.
According to her coach, Mina is “an example for the team of how to hustle and work hard.” It’s time for the North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association to support female student athletes like Mina, and let them play.
This petition is to tell the NCISAA to honor the regulations set forth in Title IX, which forbid gender discrimination in sports, by changing NCISAA policy to allow girls and boys to play together when only one team exists for a given sport.
Sign the petition in the link provided: www.change.org/petitions/north…
Another episode of Wikipedia's thoughtless sexism
Recently, Wikipedia has saw fit to delete several pages relating to Scythian religion. The most notable casualties of this spiteful decision are Tabiti, which stands as the matriarch of the Scythian pantheon and its actual head according to Herodotus’ Histories, and Argimpasa, a rather iconic figure in the discussion of the matriarchal aspects of Scythian society.
The world’s leading encyclopaedia can afford to have articles about anal sex but not about important mythological female figures. And all because of spite.
The de facto reason for this deletion is a rather complex conflict between Wikipedia as a whole and me, and is pa
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Street Harassment: Is a Man Running Over a 14-Year Old Girl for Refusing Sex Serious Enough?
Written by: Soraya Chemaly
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Me, again. Time for another, "please take street harassment seriously" post.
Earlier this week a man in a car pulled up next to a 14-year old girl on a street in Florida and offered to pay her $200 to have sex with him. Some people would say that's a compliment. It's part of being out in society, learning to deal with people, navigating relationships between men and women. Or, at least that what many commenters on articles I write about street harassment think. That
Report: 3rd of women worldwide have been assaulted
According to the World Health Organization, "A third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women."
In a series of papers released on Thursday by the World Health Organisation and others, experts estimated nearly 40 per cent of women killed worldwide were murdered by an intimate partner. Being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.
"Violence against women is a global health problem of epidemic proportions," WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said in a statement.
WHO defined physical v
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