Allison Kasic of the Independent Women's Forum

Thursday evening (tonight) on the John Stossel Show, Allison Kasic will debate Nancy Hogshead-Makar on the issue of Title IX reform.  Kasic is a Senior Fellow  at the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative women’s organization. The program starts at 9:00 pm EST and airs on the Fox Business network.

Hogshead-Makar is a former Duke University swimmer who won three gold and one silver medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.  She is  an asthma spokesman, and attorney.

The IFW seeks to combat the too-common presumption that women want and benefit from big government, and build awareness of the ways that women are better served by greater economic freedom.

Read Kasic’s latest, Are You Ready For Some Football? She agrees with your blogger and is tired of the sport of football being beaten upon by “feminazis”.

Kasic argues that there is no female sport equal to football, pigskin brings in more money than most other sports programs combined, and that we should not cut that program to keep up with the ever-growing female student population on our campuses.

Your blogger grew up playing sports from elementary school onward.  Even after Title IX was passed, KCC was denied admission to play on boys’ baseball church teams, despite having proven herself to be better than the boys.

Her mother had to lobby her high school and its conference to get the girls’ varsity basketball games to start AFTER the boys’ junior varsity games.  She was successful and KCC didn’t know about this until much later.

After lettering in three sports, all four years in high school, and playing soccer on Meredith College‘s first soccer team, your blogger was the first generation to enjoy the benefits of Title IX.

However, there is a point, when it can get pushed too far.  Dropping football to add girls’ sports is just not an option.  This blogger is just too much of a sports fan to see that happen.  Additionally, it is just not right.

Football is traditional and deserves to stay.  It keeps  boys and young men out of trouble, teaches them sportsmanship and keeps them physically fit,  just as womens’ sports have done for girls.

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