Women's World Cup - Yes It is Just as Exciting as the Men's

If you don't know much about the Women's World Cup in Soccer, here is a place to find information. 

Women deserve the same money, publicity, media coverage as the men. In our hierarchy where men are considered more valuable than women, we have a long way to go to even scratch the surface at equality in athletic opportunity in the United States.

For women there is NOTHING that compares to the fan following, media coverage, facilities, money, training opportunities, fame, etc. than Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, National Football Association, etc. etc. etc.  Just because women have achieve a slight parity in their one national soccer team, parity doesn't occur in women's professional soccer in the United States by all the standards listed above. 

https://theathletic.com/4644056/2023/07/18/womens-world-cup-2023-united-states-team-guide/?source=fbpcadsbc&ad_id=23856784577070092&fbclid=IwAR0FIzJL1_p3jYmhvyEvlh_-VqTEi1IRDvXed05pvcw-DGaCcLH5cH6pcoc

University of Oregon Appears to Ignore Title IX

In Eugene, Oregon, opposition to Title IX is alive and well at the University of Oregon.

The women's varsity beach volleyball is being treated not any better than a club sport, despite empty promises from the huge $153 million budget athletic department with some of the best sports facilities in the country that things will change.  

The team practices and plays home games in a city park. The players, who do not receive athletic scholarships, have had to use a public restroom with no doors on the stalls. At times, they have driven hundreds of miles for games and stayed three or four to a room and had to share beds.

The beach volleyball team is one of 20 varsity sports at the University of Oregon. It is the only team that receives no athletic scholarship funding. No other public university team among the nation’s largest athletic conferences, the Power Five, spends zero on athletic scholarships. UO has persistently awarded more athletic scholarships to men over women beyond the threshold permitted by Title IX, public records show.

Interviews with more than a dozen former players and coaches and analysis of financial records detail how extreme an outlier Oregon’s beach volleyball program is compared to UO’s other teams, as well as its peers in the Pac-12 Conference.

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/07/oregon-ducks-beach-volleyball-players-detail-disparate-treatment-that-experts-say-could-violate-title-ix.html

Homophobic Action at San Diego Library Met with Protest

Two homophobic San Diego residents cleared out the Pride month display at their library and said such materials shouldn’t be available to children, one of several recent clashes over L.G.B.T.Q. issues in California.

In response, Stacks of Amazon boxes containing new copies of the books the protesters checked out started to arrive at the library after The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the homophobic actions. Roughly 180 people, mostly San Diegans, gave more than $15,000 to the library system, which after a city match will provide over $30,000 toward more L.G.B.T.Q.-themed materials and programming, including an expansion of the system’s already popular drag queen story hours.

The Right Wing of this country will try to maintain and build any hierarchy they can. In this case, they have chosen sexual orientation. They will stop at nothing to make the sexual orientation they favor stay on top of our nation's hierarchies. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html