Friday, July 06, 2007

Who needs female baseball umpire? (and which fish needs a bicycle?)

I always wonder, what happen if male players bark at female referee? Would it constitute “gender violence”? – since yelling is also a form of gender violence, as we are told (with one proviso that it is directed against women by men of course, if it is directed against men by women, it is 100% legitimate form of self-defence) Or is it a workplace harassment? Maybe as a result, the tender ref would not have high self-esteem. Maybe she will feel not welcomed or that players are hostile to her. Maybe he is not just protesting the ref’s judgment, maybe he’s trying to embarrass the ref in front of large crowd to make his point that this female ref should not be here.

And let’s not forget that even if, for the sake of the argument supposed that- a female umpire starts calling games in MLB (hope it never happens), feminists are not going to stop there. In fact, they will NEVER STOP at anything. Once one female umpire “shatter the ceiling”, then there will be calls for more female refs (until the ratio reach their favourite 5-50) and arguments on female umpires not being able to call opening games or playoffs or world series, etc., etc. Don’t let the feminists floodgate open by not letting them in at all in the first place.

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