I attended yet another girl's softball game,
this time made up of 7-8th grade girls since our daughter's older daughter is one of the pitchers on the team. As we watched the game progress, we were watching
objective, in-living-color-proof of the profound difference between male
and female played out in a softball game on a field of dreams.
Anyone watching could see all kinds of differences in a middle school girls' game of softball and a middle school boys' game. Let's count the ways.
The mechanics of the play are fundamentally different. We spent an hour and fifteen minutes watching the girls catch (or try to catch) the ball and throw it to first base or any base. According to a university study, we were seeing that fundamental difference between a female's throw and a male's throw: "The overhand throwing gap [between boys and girls], beginning at 4 years of age, is three times
the difference of any other motor task, and it just gets bigger across
age.
"By 18, there’s hardly any overlap in the distribution: Nearly every
boy by age 15 throws better than the best girl.” Studies of overhand
ball throwing across different cultures have found that pre-pubescent
girls throw 51 to 69 percent of the distance that boys do, at 51 to 78
percent of the velocity. As they get older, the differences increase;
one U.S. study found that girls age 14 to 18 threw only 39 percent as
far as boys (an average of about 75 feet vs. about 192 feet)."
That's what I would call scientific proof. "You throw like a girl," isn't a myth. It's simple: girls throw like girls throw. Boys throw like boys throw. There's a huge difference.
In the other skill set of the sport-- hitting and running, there's a
vast difference between middle school boys and girls. Every aspect of
the play is different, i. e., The
mechanics are different. Also, the speed and force of the game (for
lack of a better word) are different; the force with which they run,
swing the bat, and throw.
There is also
a vast, miles-wide difference in the psychological aggression factor
between the boys and the girls.
Yet, here's what's happening: a whole generation of adults, college-graduated adults,
pretend that anything a male can do, a female can do as good or better. (Someone recently said those exact words.)
Has anyone yet, after all these years since 1960, seen a woman play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or any college team? Has anyone seen a female taken in the NFL draft? The answer to that question is that the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys was, always has been, and is a man.
Is this important to have "intelligent" adults pretending there's no difference between the mail and the female and afraid to say there is. (Of course there are somethings at which the female is created to excel, nurturing is one, for example. All of this goes back to creation and the roles for which each were created. (It's becoming forbidden to make that observation as well.)
Are the observations about that softball game important? Very. As one writer observed: "Some seem to think [that this] is a minor issue, just
another political battle. It is neither. It is THE issue of our time,
the fight of our lives. The outcome of this battle will determine
whether, moving forward, we intend to confront the world as it actually
is or only as some wish it to be; whether we will embrace reality or be
forced not merely to acknowledge but to knowingly participate in other
people’s psychoses. If we go down that road, we are lost. Once we accept
the notion that nothing is objectively true, not even the most basic
biological fact, there is no going back to a world governed by reason
and logic."
The Bible has the last word, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
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