Summary: Girls are breaking free from traditional constraints and going their own way. Here are two girls playing varsity football with the guys. I doubt that anybody talks to them about consequences, and the futures made by their choices today.
Women going their own way.
The hot meme on men’s website is “Men Going Their Own Way” (MGTOW). This gets lots of attention, both advocacy and mockery. Since this is America, few notice that the opposite trend is a thousand-fold larger – and growing in importance. “Women Going Their Own Way“, breaking free of the traditional patterns of marriage and family, breaking free of the behaviors and attitudes traditionally consider feminine.
Most people find this too disturbing to see. So the news reports these developments in the narrowest way possible. They call these feminism triumphs – for applause – and ignore the implications. Today’s example: girls joining boys high school football teams. These are small incidents but part of a trend with implications we can not fully imagine.
(1) Madi Martin, kicker on the Southlake Carroll varsity football team
This girl is a kicker, so not in harm’s way. On the video her Dad says
“I …remember Bradley watching her tackle another player she went in and put her head right in his chest and took him to the ground and I thought to myself that’s my girl.”
Fifteen years from now, he’ll wonder why no guys are “man enough” to marry his little girl — while at Thanksgiving dinner she talks about her cats. Consequences. This matches my experience in 15 years as a Scout leader and longer as a Sunday School teacher: dads are never more proud of their children than when their daughters act like boys. The effects of this are massive, and ignored.
(2) Jenna Martz, varsity defensive lineperson for the Newport Knights
“A battle for respect, then in the trenches:
For Newport’s Jenna Martz, football is feminism“
Seattle Times, 26 October 2018.
She is playing against young men a foot taller and at least 100 pounds heavier. Eventually she is going to collide with a guy who doesn’t care that she’s a girl and hits her with full force. The risk of serious injury to women is seldom mentioned amidst the go-grrrl cheering in news articles. As one commenter says:
“She is facing off against young men a full foot taller than herself and at least 100 pounds heavier. …So a lineman Ms. Martz might be reasonably be expected to go up against has 209% over her total body strength, 215 % of her upper body strength, and 149% of her mass. He will also have greater bone density and aerobic capacity.” {See his full analysis here and here.}
Just as with Madi Martin, think of this as a stage in Martz’s life.
“To reach her goal, Martz knew she needed to bulk up. …She’s put on about 20 pounds of muscle,” Richardson said of Martz’s advancement to the 148-pound weight class since her freshman year.”
This is modern America, where a girl is applauded for “bulking up.” At 5′ 3″, she is in the ~25th percentile for an 18-year-old girl’s height. At 148 pounds, she is in the roughly 85th percentile for weight at her age. If she is like most women, she will gain weight during the next ten years. If so, she might have the same odds of marrying a guy as her brother (soon to be “sister” (see below).
This is a something seldom mentioned in the euphoria about many modern girls’ sports teams: they get heavy bodies, much weight. What about their futures? Ten years from now nobody will care about their high school or college sports career. What will this do for their self-esteem and their ability to get married? Did anyone tell her these harsh truths? How many will have cats in their futures?
Martz has a background of family dysfunctionality. Not a surprise.
“It’s given her a family, especially after a tough few years that began with the sudden divorce of Jenna’s parents. …{Her mother} sunk into a deep depression. She stopped eating, caring for the home and nurturing her children. …their middle sibling was also in the process of transitioning from male to female and finding her identity. …’But I found a safe spot in doing {football and power lifting}. …I was so angry. I still struggle to have a good relationship with my father.’”
Feminism is a useful tool in the search for distinction in our crowded and competitive society, where people desperately seek a means for upward mobility in our increasingly class-bound society.
“She also hopes that her football experience will make her application to the United States Naval Academy stand out from the pack. She’s been a trailblazer at Newport for other girls who might want to play football in high school …”
Other women on the gridiron
From the Jackson Free Press, 17 April 2017.
“In 1997, Liz Heaston became the first woman to ever play and score in a college football game when she scored in a game for Willamette University, in Oregon, a then-NAIA-level university, in a 27-0 win over Linfield College, in Oregon. Heaston kicked two extra points, and her jersey hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame.
“Two years later, Katie Hnida became the first woman to suit up for a NCAA Division I (now called the Football Bowl Subdivision) school at the University of Colorado. In 2003, she became the first woman to score in a Division I game at New Mexico State University. She became the first woman to try an extra point in a bowl game the year before, but an opposing player blocked it.
“Before Hnida, Ashley Martin became the first woman to kick an extra point at the NCAA Division I-AA (now the Football Championship Subdivision) level for Jacksonville State University. She made three extra points without a miss in a 71-10 win over Cumberland University.
“Former University of West Alabama kicker Tonya Butler became the first woman to kick a field goal in 2003 when she kicked a 27-yard field goal in a 24-17 win over Stillman College.
“Other women have been kickers at nearly every level of college football. Some did get a chance to kick for their teams, and others were never called upon. …
“In 2014, Shelby Osborne became the first woman to play a position besides kicker when she became the first college defensive back at NAIA school Campbellsville University, in Kentucky. NAIA schools don’t hand out athletic scholarships.”
In 2017, Becca Longo was the first woman to earn a football scholarship in Division II Football at Adams State, as a kicker. She played junior varsity at high school. Roughly a dozen women who have played college football, but none at NCAA-affiliated programs or on football scholarships. See ESPN. and the Arizona Republic.
In 2018, Antoinette “Toni” Harris received an offer from Bethany College, an NAIA school in Kansas. She plays free safety for East Los Angeles College in California, and will become one of the first female non-kickers on a college football roster. See ESPN.
Some history: “Carroll County’s first female high school football player — who was seriously injured in a 1989 practice game — can’t hold the county school board responsible for her injuries, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals said yesterday.” She was a fullback. Details here; court verdict here.
Conclusions
We are making profound changes in gender roles, a foundational aspect of any society, based only on ideology. Without experimentation or testing, even without thought about how these changes will play out over time. We are not even asking the important questions. Our children are lab rats in a social engineering project, despite the horrific results of the Left’s previous large bold project – communism. Why is this rational or ethical?
For More Information
Hat tip on these stories to Dalrock, an essential source of information describing how feminism is reshaping our society. See his articles about these girls here and here.
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