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Oct. 12th, 2004 09:48 amFolks, if you're wondering why Title IX is still important and still relevant, read this article:
Girls prove tough enough for prep football.
Also, check out the article in this month's Runner's World about the growing number of 20-29 year old women who run marathons. Apparently 20-something women outnumbered 20-something men in the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday. Pretty cool. The article also has a timeline of women's accomplishments in the marathon from 1898 (the year a women calling herself Melpomene ran alongside the Olympic marathon) on. I had no idea that the first women's Olympic Marathon was in 1984, or that the first time women were allowed in the Boston Marathon was '72. Ridiculous.
Women are and always have been competetive. It's a species-wide trait, not just a male one.
I had more of a rant, but like pie, ranty gone. Hmmph.
Girls prove tough enough for prep football.
Also, check out the article in this month's Runner's World about the growing number of 20-29 year old women who run marathons. Apparently 20-something women outnumbered 20-something men in the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday. Pretty cool. The article also has a timeline of women's accomplishments in the marathon from 1898 (the year a women calling herself Melpomene ran alongside the Olympic marathon) on. I had no idea that the first women's Olympic Marathon was in 1984, or that the first time women were allowed in the Boston Marathon was '72. Ridiculous.
Women are and always have been competetive. It's a species-wide trait, not just a male one.
I had more of a rant, but like pie, ranty gone. Hmmph.
