Lets see what you all feminists say to this!

www.gogirlgo.com

www.womenssportsfoundation.org

Help Girls across America get physically active and going, so that they may have greater self esteem, more choices in life and be successful in anything that they do.

Go girls go!!!

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Please make a donation- about 20 bucks... to this organization. you will get free sports talk newsletter after that so that you may give them to your kids/ read them yourself. It is a non profit organization and has helped alot of female athletes in the past and is helping them now and will help them in the future.

O yea and it is founded by billie jean king...we all know who that is ofcourse.

 

well, obviously feminists would support it

 

Yes, but it is a good test- For example, if the "feminists" here truly believe in advocating these types of organizations , then they pay them. and I am sure they do advocate them. Therefore I guess we will see alot of donations ,won't we ? ha.

 

i also advocate not running over dogs, but i don't pay an organization to keep people from doing it, do i?

 

What if they're really poor? Or they live in another country, and wish to support health in their own lands?

Or what if, like me, they are poor and live in another country? Huh? Huh?

 

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you do what you think is right, if you think you are dirt poor... then don't donate money, if you think that you cannot survive without going to that movie then please by all means... go to "that" movie that you want to see...

However, if you do think you can survive with out that latte , or that movie, or that little pleasure that is going to make you a little happier , then by all means donate that money to some one who needs it.

If you think like, "why should I donate?" well, we also do have an answer for that, it will help little girls because they will grow up with good self esteem, will be more responsible, will have the capability to be successful in anything that they do and the society in general will be much healthier- all because people like you supported it.

but, if you think "aaah forget this , I am giving too much to the world already" , then by all means please don't donate.

 

*rolls her eyes*

 

*rolls his eyes*

 

I don't think that sports should be funded at all. Sports is a recreation. It has always existed, but has served a purpose in keeping the youth fit and healthy and as a means of expressing culture. But now sports is all about money and egos, and has become an industry. Take hockey for example. The NHL tries to brainwash us Canadians into believing that hockey is still a part of our culture, but I have to disagree. Years ago, hockey was played by amateurs--they considered payment undignified, and the teams would consist of players who lived in the city. These players worked, and only competed in hockey in their off ours. Greedy industrialists then got the idea of creating teams and bought the best players, thus began professional hockey. The purpose of professional hockey is make money for the owners, and nothing alse. Hockey is not what it used to be, nor are most sports for that matter. So I see no point in funding them, regardless of who it concerns.

 

You are right, but you see, these are little girls trying to play sports. Now you may say why fund these things?- well most inner city girls are not being encouraged to play and most young kids in general today are playing computer games than actually going out and enjoying physical activity. This computer addiction in the younger generation is positive but also sometimes negative- that is -they have some negative psychological effects. So, these have to be minimized. So, they need encouragement and this will happen with special programs etc.
And these programs need to be funded to help these little girls grow up to be strong women in the future. It is something that is more on the side of community service through sports than something like NHL which is recreation.

But I agree with you though, we shouldn't fund NHL so much haha.

 

If these girl's parents can afford computers, surely they can afford a bus ticket to the park? I've exercised all my life and no one's ever sponsered me.

 

*rolls her eyes and gnashes her teeth*

 

The question is not about if parents afford it or not.. this is about encouraging people, spreading the word, like I said , you want to donate, donate. But if you are dying to see that movie please see it!!! and take a friend with you , I insist !!!! or if you don't want to see that movie then donate. Think about it, you will be a hero who is taking a part in saving the world. So, you are not this stuffed up, pompous, self obssessed person after all eh?



Oh yea, if you don't want to go to a movie or donate to some people who want to change the world, then please

you can always give the money to good old friendly Jedi

 

*Rolls his eyes even more and watches her gnash her teeth*

so good oh yea lol.
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Yeah, I'm a member of the Women's Sports Foundation. They do good work.

Promoting participation for boys and girls alike is important in cities and suburbs alike because it is an excellent way of keeping kids out of trouble. Generally inner city girls are more measurably affected by the positive influence of sport as we see with less teen pregnancy, less unprotected sex, further education, better body image, overall self-worth etc.

Thanks, Jedi, for your ambiguously sarcastic/sincere posts. I like them.

 

These things can definitely be accomplished without funding sports, such as developing intellects and instilling people with morals and ethics. The only way that people get more overall self-worth through sports is the ego that they develop by being competative; this is much different than developing self-worth through introspection and contemplation. For example, compare the self-worth of Michael Jordan to that of Ghandi. I'd prefer to have more of the latter than the former running around, but unfortunately in our society the majority are the former.

 

That's a good point.

However, the Ghandi/Michael Jordan suggested comparison seems irrelevant. Hugely sponsored male professional athletes, indeed, are not affected by sport in the same way the average 12-year-old girl on a softball field is. I can speak from my own experiences with sports that, from a social perspective, teams can certainly fill the lives of young people with excellent role models. In a system where competition is the way to survival, wouldn't developing such a sense (albeit egotistic) in athletics be a positive thing for a girl to develop?

Yeah, and the former you refer to is that large body of rich male athletes who are funded ridiculously despite hearing stories every day about players being arrested, accused of rape, and abusing heavy drugs. We're talking about little girls getting some exercise here.

WELL then. How do you propose we develop intellects and instill morals and ethics?

 

so who's billie jean king?

 

you guys are just too funny

 

Ghandi and Michael Jordan are just an example; I'm not saying that 12 year-old girls playing softball are comparable to Michael Jordan, what I'm saying is that by their participating in sports, they're bound to develop similar attitudes, even if they don't become professionals, and don't earn millions of dollars.

I find it interesting that you would trumpet the benefits of sports for young girls, and then point out the negative aspects of male athletes. It kind of proves my point, though, doesn't it. Had these men been encouraged to participate in non-athletic activites perhaps they never would have gotten into the position where they committed these crimes. Perhaps instead of devoting their lives to a particulr sport, allowing it to corrupt them, turn them into mindless performers, they could have developed morals and ethics, become productive members of the community instead of false heroes.

Like I said, in order for people to get exercise through sports, they don't need funding. Funding is something that is used to develop athletes so that one day we'll have people to entertain us and bring honour to our country by winning lots of medals at the Olympics. But do we really need this? No, not at all.