Today's Denver Post features an opinion piece by Jane Lubchenco, who is the undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, and administrator for NOAA. In her piece, she revisits the days before Title IX, when girls were thought to be too delicate to play sports. It took me back to my high school days, when girls could letter in cheerleading and pom-poms. Ten years later I was watching my teenaged neighbor's high school soccer match. Those girls were downright brutal. No hesitation, no fear, just play to win. What a difference.
Shasta
When I was in High School we were allowed to play half court intramural basketball. No varsity sports of any kind existed for women.
Now there are professional women's teams in a multitude of arenas.
http://www.womentalksports.com/athletes (http://www.womentalksports.com/athletes)
'fist pump'
Playing half-court basketball was mentioned in the piece. I'm not athletically gifted, although I did surprise the grandkids when we were at the reservoir yesterday. "Grandma! You can actually swim." I like the idea that my granddaughters aren't being held back by archaic notions. We're Celtic! Our ancestresses went into battle!
Shasta
I just mentioned on another thread that I had seen a bumper sticker that said..." Well behaved women seldom Make History!
And.... at least when I was growing up... before the Hippies bloomed.... everything was so conventional.... and certainlthings were just not " ladylike" and you certainly were not supposed to confront or challenge a mans premier authority in the world.
I am so pleased to see that GONE pretty much today. I know some lovely things have been left behind but generally its for the good....
Linda
Hey, Shasta!
Recently I met a girls hockey team from Maine, and let me say, they werent to be messed with!
All of them were amazingly fit, and full of energy, and we chatted for awhile about how women's sports have come a long way, the World Cup specifically, and how I would rather watch them than the men, as they actually are good!:D
Cheers!
Le
Shasta-cat, et al., sorry to go slightly off topic here, but we have been watching Mad Men lately. IFo those who don't know, it is about the Madison Avenue advertising world in that pre-"Sixties" moment when WASP men began to find their ingrained attitudes challenged on all fronts.
Season one is backgrounded by the Kennedy-Nixon campaign. The big client is Lucky Strikes cigarettes, and everybody smokes all the time. In season two, it's Integration and the Cuban Missile Crisis, but a building theme of the show is the transformation of women's roles and we see women coming into their own in dozens of small ways.
The near-perfect period look of the show is an absolutely delicious bonus. It's accurate in many small ways.
rose
I was watching that for a while. It brought back some memories. I don't think it's really even off topic for this thread. It's a fairly realistic representation of a "woman's place" in the sixties. The drinking is pretty accurate too. At least for my family. Any offspring of non-alcoholics out there? You might have a different point of view.
Shasta
As the offspring of two alchoholics and one step alchoholic, I cant offer any advice on that.:(
Thank goodness I didnt smoke either! They all three do and did, and it was like living in a bar as a boy around our house....eccch!
Theres something to be said from watching the drunken smoking babboons in a cage...I learned what not to do!
LE
I got to wondering tonight, why females were considered too delicate to play sports, but not too delicate to cross the continent in prairie schooners. And praise be that corsets and girdles are no longer in style! Of course the corsets contributed to the delicate female image. Of course you faint when you can't breathe and your internal organs are shoved up behind your eyeballs!
Shasta
You can always move to Russia and join the army :D
Secret Weapons
The New Russian Army
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3903.jpe)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3908.jpe)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3906.jpe)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3907.jpe)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3901.jpe)
Thing is with this lineup, they would win. No WAY any American soldier is going to shoot :P
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3900.jpe)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3909.jpe)
Images Courtesy of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/logo-minoborony.gif)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Russian_Army/big3905.jpe)
I am smittened already...LOL I would get shot first for sure Z!! Very interesting take on militaria defense systems for sure my friend..
1Worldwatcher
Global Moderator
IMHO,
Women utilise extra abilities than the majority of men do.
It is all to do with humans having two brains.
Men are far more operating from the physical brain, that mostly operates the vehicle We call our bodies.
The connection across to the second brain is via the pineal gland( in a simple description)
The military in particuler desire mostly males who are firmly operating from the physical brain( computer)
Those operating more from that brain are far easier to control, and make to do as ordered.
Those who operate across to the second computer , as most women do, are not as easy to control.
Those operating from both brains then gain access to their heart fields.
Those males who operate mostly in the physical will be pushovers for those curvy Ruskie women.
Bring on fast when We all can operate from the heart more, then the wars can be confined to history.
hobbit
;)
Z..i don't know where you get this stuff..but my best guess is these pics are for something beside the military
check out the shoes and the different uniform types
(http://i45.servimg.com/u/f45/13/55/53/83/big39010.jpg)
and check out the hem lengths
(http://i45.servimg.com/u/f45/13/55/53/83/big39011.jpg)
real or propoganda
ahhhh .. i see ...men..doesn't matter
hahahahahahahahahaha
That'funny Zorgon. My daughter suggested that I learn Russian for employment purposes, as the Denver area has a fairly large Russian speaking population. I'm already working on Spanish for the same reason. Then I have the classwork for my LPN to BSN program. And Hobbit, the corpus callosum also has a lot to do with tbe differences in male and female thinking. It' larger in females, and helps facilitate lobe to lobe communication.
Shasta
Ah.... Green eyed Russians.
Woman..... or man..... a romantic but dangerous combination! Linda
A miniature brown eyed blond standing in the middle of the living room yelling "Donovan! I naked!"
A six year old girl being followed around the water park by a starry eyed four year old boy. When she asked "why do you keep following me?" He responded, "cause you're pretty." It was one of Shannon's rare times of being at a loss for words.
Shasta