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March 10, 2006
You Throw Like a Girl Brother Blogcritic Victor Lana has a column this week called "You Throw Like A Boy: Some Thoughts on Sexism." Basically, he's kvetching about how supposedly damaging it is when, for his prime example, one boy taunts another by accusing them of "throwing like a girl." That's just mean, and hurts the little boys, and of course oppresses the girls by telling them they can't do things.
Now besides the stubborn refusal to accept that generally in fact girls can't throw as well as boys and that it's foolish and much more truly oppressive to repress such simple recognitions of reality, I would argue that this kind of silly egalitarian ideology is also far more damaging even to the girls.
There's one thing of striving to have equality under the law, but that doesn't mean that men and women are equal in nature. It doesn't mean they have equal aptitudes, nor necessarily the same interests.
As I expressed it to him in comments to his Blogcritics artlcle:
It's pretty insulting to womankind to act like the least little mundane passing implicit acknowledgement of such things ie throwing like a girl is enough to hold them back. YOU are the one here treating them like the weaker sex.
Whereas on the other hand, I would be a big advocate in particular of encouraging independence and strength for all. If'n y'all get to Indiana, I'd be happy to get together with you and start teaching your girl how to shoot a gun. Packing a pistol in her purse- and having the training and confidence to be able to handle it- would be a lot more valuable to her than throwing a damned baseball in the first place.
I'm just saying that my kind of womenfolk aren't meek little wimps who will be easily discouraged. Whereas on the basis of articles like this, I would more expect a daughter raised by you to give up and sit there all hurt cause some mean old guy said that girls can't do this or that.
Hopefully your girl is made of tougher stuff than that, and won't allow herself to held back by her loving Daddy's nonetheless foolish lefty ideological baggage.
