{"id":1890,"date":"2006-01-19T01:16:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/no_more_macho_male_athletes\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T01:16:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T06:16:21","slug":"no_more_macho_male_athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/01\/no_more_macho_male_athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Macho Male Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phyllis Schlafly “explains” why males aren’t going to college<\/a>.
\nI believe the argument is that because feminists have scaled back macho sports, males simply don’t want to go to school any more.
\nI like this line<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s too bad that male sports are being eliminated on most college campuses. Except for Texas, USC, and a few other places, radical feminism rules in the athletic departments at the expense of popular male sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s true that at many schools male athletic departments have been scaled back to comply with gender equality rules. But by and large, just how “popular’ are these casualties?
\nI don’t have hard data for this, but I’d be willing to bet that here at the University of Tennessee, for example, they could eliminate every male athletic program besides football and basketball, and 90% of the public wouldn’t even notice. And even among those potential male students who did notice, would that really be a determining factor as to whether or not they go to school?
\nHow many high school students do you believe sit around thinking: Boy, I’d like to go to UT, but since they don’t have a soccer team, I think I’ll go to ITT Tech instead? [We know, thanks to Iraq, that they haven’t been joining the military]. Not very many, I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phyllis Schlafly “explains” why males aren’t going to college. I believe the argument is that because feminists have scaled back macho sports, males simply don’t want to go to school any more. I like this line It’s too bad that male sports are being eliminated on most college campuses. Except for Texas, USC, and a […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}