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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