A clash of cultures!
Football here consists of huge armored males colliding with each other for 60 minutes. One can get hurt playing soccer, one can get killed playing American football.
Although, there is a very occasional example of a girl trying to quarterback - I don't think she lasts long. Perhaps not after the males forget their built in reflexes and proceed to cream her. (shudder)
Harry
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Keith wrote:
Ed, Just for now:At 14:13 21/10/02 -0400, you wrote: <<<< What can men still do that women can't? Well, they can still play football. >>>> Don't you believe it! It's my triplet grand-daughters' 9th birthday in a few days. I had no idea what to give them as presents, of course, but under advice from my daughter, I have now bought them (a) a dressing gown for Julia; (b) a set of "How to Draw" books for Kate; (c) a football and a pair of football boots for Helen. (They are, needless to say, non-identical twins with entirely different sets of genes -- otherwise it might easily have been three pairs of boots.) Keith >As a male member of the species, I must admit that I've felt myself to be in >a long retreat during the past half century. When I attended university in >the 1950s, there were plenty of women there, but almost all of them were >taking home ec or nursing. There were a few oddballs. A few were taking >law, and one was actually taking engineering! From what I've read about >universities recently, there may indeed be more women taking professional >courses than men. Ads for business schools offering MBAs typically show a >bright and shiny young woman who is obviously going to make it. > >I attend the odd meeting at the local high school because I have a 17 year >old daughter who is about to graduate. I'm one of the few males there. >School council is about 90% female, and student council, this year, is all >young women. The Principal is a woman, as is one of the two VPs and most of >the teachers. Before high school, my daughter attended an "alternative" >school which encouraged parental participation in school policy and the >classroom. About 90% of parents who participated were women. > >Women have become at least equal if not dominant in fields other than >education. During the course of my career as civil servant, I saw them move >out of the steno pool and into some really high-powered executive offices, >including those of Deputy and Assistant Deputy Minister. A few months ago, >I attended a mining conference in Canada's high Arctic. Some of the most >formidable mining executives and bureaucrats in attendance were women. > >What can men still do that women can't? Well, they can still play football. >And there are some crazy channels on TV that feature things like riding a >bicycle up a ramp and doing several loops on it before it hits the ground. >I don't think I've seen a woman do that yet. But, maybe soon? > >Is there a message in all of this? Perhaps we were meant to be matriarchal, >but got it wrong to begin with. Some societies may have got it right. >Northern Athapaskan (Dene) Indians are matriarchal. To quote a Dene woman I >once talked to in the Mackenzie Valley: "We let men be boys till they're >forty. Then we make them get serious!" That may be the natural order of >things. > >Ed > >PS: I've only been to Japan once, but I remember seeing a lot of students in >dark uniforms. Above their feet, they all looked alike. But their feet >were something else. Every colour of running shoe imaginable! Ah...., self >expression! > >Ed Weick
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