Girls Shouldn't Play Football

A buff chick

Since Shenandoah University played Juniata College on September 23, there's been a big hullabaloo about women in football.  Liberal news sources hail Haley Van Voorhis of Shenandoah University as the first female non-kicker football player, a warrior for equality, and a pillar of feminism. 

Before we address the blatant misreporting of the whole story, let's go over how wonderful an idea it is to put a nineteen-year-old girl on a NCAA football field with twenty-one exceptionally strong men. Van Voorhis is exceptionally strong herself, but she cannot possibly be as strong as male college football players. Additionally, standing at a respectable height of 5'6", weighing 145 pounds, she is not small for a woman, but she is small for a man. College football players are at the peak of athleticism. They are drafted at the age when they are most fit and booted when their skills start to dull. They are in better shape than the general public. So, even if Van Voorhis was the fittest woman in America, she could still get pummeled by male players. This makes her a safety risk (pun intended). 

In addition to the safety issue, there is the problem of decreased game quality. Football games cannot be as turbulent and vigorous with girls playing. It's no secret that football is a rough sport. And men, however brainlessly athletic some are, are instinctively averse to hurting women. So how can these football players operate in their usual hard, fast, and aggressive way with a female in their midst? Even if they don't actively think about it, they will play differently with a girl in the game. I've seen this when playing soccer and ultimate frisbee in the backyard with my friends. With girls and boys in the same game, the boys noticeably change their level of intensity based on who they are playing against at the moment. They will come at a ten-year-old boy harder than they come at me, a seventeen-year-old girl, even though I am stronger than the ten-year-old. This probably isn't intentional, and I do not consider it to be offensive. Unless the masculine instinct has been killed, males avoid hurting females. Thus, having women and men play in the same game diminishes the quality of college football. 

 

Back to the accusation I made earlier. CNN, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post, and other liberal news outlets called Van Voorhis the first female non-kicker football player in the NCAA. However, another chick, Taylor Crout of Fitchburg State, played cornerback in a game on September 9th. Mainstream media caught wind of a girl snubbing propriety and immediately threw a party. They didn't check the facts until after the articles were published. Granted, a few sources have corrected themselves, but the problem still exists. If mainstream media can get away with sports fallacies, what else can it get away with? 

 

Meanwhile, popular conservative sites such as Newsmax, The Federalist, and The Epoch Times have not published articles about Van Voorhis and her moment of glory. Perhaps conservative media ignores the event in order to avoid adding to desired publicity. I am not qualified to address these concerns, but there is something I can extract from this story. Both sexes benefit from keeping football exclusively male.