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The Monday Thought
Last week, I got hipped to what has to be one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard of.
The YWCA of Vancouver thinks that sports aren’t woke enough yet. So, in an effort to remedy that, they want sports to have an M added to them. The examples they give are to turn the NBA to the MNBA, the NHL into the MNHL, the PGA to the MPGA, and Major League Soccer to MMLS.
This, my friends, is peak wokeism. It’s also more than a bit ignorant of the past, present, and future of sports.
Have you heard of Jackie Mitchell?
In 1931, Jackie Mitchell took the mound for the Chattanooga Lookouts in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees. She struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
To this day, women are still playing high-level baseball. There are several women each year playing baseball at the collegiate level. In the late 90’s, Ila Borders pitched professional for four seasons, including her 1999 season where she pitched to a 3.63 ERA in 34.2 innings.
Have you heard of Manon Rhéaume?
Rhéaume was a hockey goaltender in the 90’s who played parts of seven seasons in professional men’s leagues. She also played professional roller hockey and took the ice for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning during a preseason game.
Everybody remembers when Sarah Fuller was practically drafted into kicking for Vanderbilt
But did you know that she was one of nearly two dozen women who have played college football? Not all of them were kickers, either. There have been a few women who have started at wide receiver, at linebacker, and at other positions.
And of course, there was Michelle Wie, who at the age of 16 started playing PGA tour events against men.
The point of this is that the YMCA of Vancouver is missing one key fact as to why the NHL, the NBA, et al don’t have an M for Men’s in front of them.
They don’t exclude women.
You may be thinking to yourself that “Well yeah Brian they don’t, but you don’t see any women in the NBA”, or “Yeah, well Sarah Fuller was just a temporary gimmick for a bad team1.” But the point was that they did it. They did not let being a woman stop them from competing against men.
The NBA has no rule against women playing in the NBA.
Major League Soccer has no rule against women playing on an MLS team.
The NHL and PGA obviously have no rule against women competing; they’ve already done it.
The YWCA of Vancouver has unwittingly backed itself into a corner by saying that women can’t compete with men. It isn’t what they mean, but it’s certainly the main takeway from it. An ironic argument seeing as it comes at a time when a man is being celebrated for winning women’s championships.
As far as I know, there are no leagues that ban any gender from competing except for the women’s leagues, and even then the recent spate of biological males competing as females is allowable. The YWCA’s main gripe here is pointless. If a woman can compete with the men, she is fully allowed to compete with the men.
And she should be able to. If a woman wants to play Major League Baseball or in the NFL or the NBA or the NFL or any “men’s” sport, let her. So long as she can genuinely compete and a team wants to sign her, go for it. She should not be pigeonholed into a woman’s league just because she is a woman, which ironically is exactly what the YWCA is trying to do here. It’s a woke exclusionism, suggesting that women should be excluded from competing against men solely because they are women. It’s bizarre.
Maybe the YWCA should focus more of something of its original mission which was “ the needs of single women….by offering housing, education and support with a "warm Christian atmosphere” instead of being the left-wing bastion of intersectionalism that it is today.
This has a lot of truth to it.