Monday, September 7, 2009

betzy


How do you follow perfection? First keep it up there all summer. How's that for an excuse for not blogging all summer? Then follow with pictures of beautiful women. Betzy Jiminez trains near where I work and has been spotted recently, so it must be cross country season. Watching her run is a treat that everyone should get to enjoy but few do because of the obscurity of cross country. There are a few other Texas women athletes who will be stars, but others will write about them.
Betzy may never get the recognition she deserves, but she is the real deal. She's a natural. Originally a volleyball player, she's only been running for a few years and is already a top NCAA athlete.
I truly believe that Title IX has everything to do with her ability to compete and go to school and most importantly, break up the day, and inject a bit of joy into the robotic machinations of this working stiff. Title IX also helps women where other programs fail.
Please do not read perhaps the most chauvinistic article ever written in opposition to Title IX. If this article had any evidential merit, I might argue with is idiot, but someone might be listening. Did Clay's sisters used to beat him up everyday? What kind of an ass would object to the positive contributions Title IX has made to our sports world? What kind of misogynist doesn't like the beauty and grace that women have added to sports that if nothing else at least offsets the ugliness and corruption that permeates men's sports? A guy who thinks MIT has one of the biggest sports programs I guess.
I can't explain or defend this douchebag, but I will say that a lot of us feel quite the opposite.

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