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Queensland state netball championships allowed a boys team to compete in the competition, to promote inclusivity and equality.
Due to low male numbers that play the game there isn’t a chance to showcase the game to promote it being male friendly, and not enough to create competitive competition. So they were added to the tournament.
The boys team romped home every single match and now the Queensland organisers have come under fire for allowing it, suggesting all it has done is given “men and boys another reason to feel good about themselves”.
Can’t win here can we. Are we looking for equality or are we looking for extra opportunities for girls and preferential treatment?
If we are to make male dominated sports open to female participants and promote them within that game, we have to do the same for female dominated sports don’t we? Of which netball most certainly is.
Some have called for the boys to apologise as they “should have allowed the girls to win the final”, these young boys trying to compete in a sport they love were also victim to court side abuse as parents and onlookers made awful remarks to them as they played.
As far as I’m concerned, both these boys and these girls are the victims of a minority social movement that the majority of the world feels is ludicrous but is not allowed to say aloud.
[Post edited 27 Oct 2021 9:12]
Swansea Independent Poster of the Year 2021 and 2022.
Feminists now complain about inclusivity and equality on 09:29 - Oct 27 by johnlangy
I suppose the most obvious point to make is that in football, for example, men play against men and women against women. For obvious reasons.
If It is was chess there'd be no argument I can think of off the top of my head.
It’s a non contact sport though, and the feminists mantra is that the differences between men and women are the results of social constructs and not biology. This is an U-18’s competition.
Either there are massive differences between the two sexes and we start accepting that again, meaning we don’t allow transgender women (formerly men) to compete in women’s sports due to that massive difference.
Or we continue to toe the line that there is very little difference between them and the differences are the result of a patriarchal system and these things keep happening.
Let’s face it, if it was a women’s team that entered a rugby tournament and dominated the guys teams, everyone would say “good on them” and it would be celebrated. So do we want equality or do we want preferential treatment. You would have to react to both in the same manner, but we both know the reaction would be worlds apart.
Netball is female dominated without question. People should be rooting for the minority in the sport… but they aren’t because they are boys, and men and boys aren’t treated the same by society.
I just can’t stand the double standards. Equality means equality, not ‘selective equality as and when it suits’, which is essentially what these people want.
[Post edited 27 Oct 2021 9:43]
Swansea Independent Poster of the Year 2021 and 2022.
Feminists now complain about inclusivity and equality on 09:40 - Oct 27 by CountyJim
Never understood why more women don't do well at snooker or darts because those sports ain't as physical
Apparently Wales women played a friendly against a youth side in football the women got hammered by 10 plus goals
When the equal pay wrangle was going on here between Australian International men and women, the women played Newcastle Jets boys U-15’s in a warm up match to the Olympics… and lost 7-0.
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