In the Name of Equity: The Destruction of the American Male

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In the Name of Equity: The Destruction of the American Male

by Joe Campbell 2005

Throughout the course of American history there has been a constant struggle to set right the inequities of society. Many times, however, these efforts go awry. People having political agendas use these efforts not to better society, but to achieve their end purpose. Title IX is one such program. Title IX has been hijacked by militant feminists with no purpose other than to destroy boys and men and all they excel at, most notably sports.

In the 1960’s a cultural revolution overtook America. Civil rights were brought to the forefront of the American consciousness. Black people were struggling to get an equal voice in government and to be treated equally throughout the United States.

Women were also looking for equity. There undeniably existed a second class status for women in political clout, workplace rules, and college admissions. Towards the end of the decade, women had made great strides. In fact, according to Jessica Gavora, “In 1972, American feminism was arguably reaching its apex. . . .Congress responded by passing the Equal Rights Act and, later that same year, Title IX. The sentiment that most members of Congress sought to express in Title IX was equality under the law—nothing more and nothing less. Discrimination against women in admissions to universities and graduate schools was real in many areas and had been documented in congressional hearings. It would no longer be permitted.” (p. 3)

The text of Title IX is “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Thirty-seven simply stated words that have been so misinterpreted by the Department of Education many colleges and universities are forced to eliminate male sports.

Title IX has been used to such an extreme that a six year old boy, Jonathan Prevette of Lexington, North Carolina, was suspended from school for sexual harassment when a six year old girl asked him to kiss her. Jonathan complied by kissing her on the cheek. The girl never complained, but school officials took action because “Jonathan’s action ’had the potential of becoming a problem under the district’s sexual harassment policy’—a policy that Title IX requires every school to have, including elementary schools.” (Gavora, 2002, pp. 14-15)

The agenda of militant feminist organizations like N. O. W. is not equity between the sexes, but a total destruction of the male role in society. Title IX, aided by Presidents Carter and Clinton, ultra-liberal courts in the Northeast and California and the Congress of the United States, has been their tool of choice as they try to realize their warped agenda.

In 1971, the year before Title IX was passed into law, there were 294,015 females participating in athletics in American high schools. Title IX was applied to athletics in 1979. The year before that, the number of female athletes in high school had risen 631% to 1,854,400. That increase was due to changes in society, not Title IX. (Kocher, 1999)

Since Title IX was applied to sports under the Carter Administration the increase in female participation has slowed dramatically. The Department of Education began using a three prong test for compliance with Title IX. Proportionality is the safe-harbor prong of their test. Proportionality says that if the enrollment is 55% female, for example, the number of athletes must also be 55% female. That doesn’t mean opportunities, it means actual participants.

Since there is a higher level of interest in athletics with males than females, the only choice many schools have had is to eliminate male opportunities to keep the numbers of the Proportionality quota in line. This has resulted in less than 25 colleges or universities nationwide having a gymnastics program. Since 1972 over 433 collegiate wrestling programs have been eliminated. (Illinois Sports Advocacy Group, Petition Poster)

Organizations like N. O. W. fought hard to prevent a “Take Your Sons to Work Day” to go along with the “Take You Daughter to Work Day”. Title IX has been so perverted by them and the courts, along with the silent complicity of Congress, that there is a steep decline in male applications into college. They have used Title IX, through Proportionality, to prevent schools from allowing walk-on male athletes, even though those athletes get no financial aid from their athletic participation.

The weird thing about it is that Proportionality is now preventing female opportunities from developing. With all schools experiencing a financial crunch, it is cheaper for a college to drop a male sport rather than introduce a new female sport. That situation doesn’t bother the militant feminists because each male program dropped is one more bastion of male society they have eliminated. Obviously their goal isn’t to help female athletes, only to hurt male ones.

Well meaning people wrote and enacted Title IX to help bring about an end to the discrimination women and girls were facing. The way Title IX has been enforced by the “politically correct” ultra-liberal members of the government, along with a news media that insists on misinformation, is the goal of organizations like N. O. W. They will stop only when members of the government grow a backbone and work to end discrimination in its entirety instead of trading one from of discrimination for another.

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