Sunday, March 3, 2013

opposing argument and complexity

Although Title IX's written context is a very narrow, concise and modest law, after approximately thirty years, this law was interpreted into an explicit, government enforced quota regime.Some may argue it even goes as far as to put boys and men on the losing side of a battle for athletic and educational opportunity. Often times men's teams, at a surplus of the schools involved in the Title IX litigation in the early 1990s, were cut in order to increase opportunities for women in the sports facilities at their schools.The change in legislation discretely had a large effect on men's athletics. Some even questioned the constitutionality of the law, insisting that, "congress contradicted the very principle of nondiscrimination that it was trying to promote when it allowed for separate athletic teams for men and women under Title IX". This ultimately permits discrimination on the basis of sex and has turned the tables and prompted a different target of the gender discrimination. This response to Title IX became the most argued because it involved the discrimination of both men and women and negotiated the true meaning of the term, 'gender equality'. This premise diminishes the success of the law and therefore takes away from its credibility for the successful social revolution. An arguable point was made that the law intended to end discrimination against women is now causing discrimination against men. This is one of the many failures that take away from the merit of the law itself.s Title IX is a law that challenges social gender norms and traditional women’s opportunities, there was an obvious backlash. Women’s influx into the sports world has challenged the traditional masculinity of those sports therefore causing a backlash of male athletes. Some marginalized men’s sports teams have had to be cut from University rosters due to the legislation of equality of Title IX. However, Title IX is not to blame for these cuts. Men’s athletic opportunities have not decreased; women’s opportunities have simply increased. In fact, the numbers of both male and female intercollegiate athletes increased in the years 1991-1992 and beyond.

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