When men and women compete in sport, the women get short changed
Lindsey
Vonn has opined that women will eventually compete against men in sports. Uh, Lindz, they already are. “Transgendered” men are sweeping high school
girls wrestling championships, spots on the volleyball team, boxing etc. It
generally doesn’t work out well for women when they compete against men who
identify as women. But who needs Title
IX and women’s sports anyway?
Re
Gary Plimpton’s letter, “Change for the better driven by youth” of Apr 25, 2018
Saying
that today’s teens are brighter and better educated than past generations is an
odd assertion. By what standard? Intelligence does not equal wisdom, watch the
super genius try to make change, or figure sales tax when the computer is down.
And
even if today’s teens are smarter, they are also softer. Military recruiters indicate that 70% of
today’s recruits cannot meet minimum physical standards. All the brains in the world are not going to
compensate for the upper body strength required to do push-ups, pull-ups or even change a flat tire.
I
suppose every parent laments the decline of civilization as civilization is manifested
in their teenage children. Yet
civilization marches on. So I will not compare the generation of Parkland “children”
(their own description) to any other.
Instead let’s look at the Parkland kids juxtaposed to young adults of
their own generation.
While
Parkland kids endlessly skip school to agitate against the Constitution and whine about freedom, young
adults about their same age who have taken an oath to defend Constitution are
rucking up, moving out and drawing fire.
I think
the Parkland children’s 15 minutes of fame is up. Let’s move on to the young adult heroes performing a
real service to the country.
Change for the better
being driven by youth
I'm reaching out to
the fellow octogenarian who penned “Inexperienced teens can't tell others how
to live (April 11).”
Apparently, in his
view, teens publicly stating that no one should have an assault weapon is
telling him how he should live. If having a gun is what his life is about, he
needs to get a life.
Here are a few things
that he did not learn over his 82 years.
Today's teens are
brighter, better educated and smarter than the teens of his era. Suggesting how
a group of people think and live when you know nothing about them is ludicrous.
Today is different
from 1776 and the '30s and '40s, and you need to embrace today.
At 82, he must take
ownership, not just the kids. I'm proud of those kids. They are standing up for
what they believe, not sitting back citing what's wrong with our country and
doing nothing about it, like some fellow octogenarians.
There are things they
don't understand. Like how did the NRA get so powerful? It was founded to
assist gun owners with shooting accuracy but has evolved to a huge political
force. How did we let that happen?
We are all responsible
for the country we live in. We have warts, but it's still a great country – and
the Parkland kids will make it better.
Gary Plimpton
Fort Wayne
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