Our Lady of Perpetual Misogyny UPDATED
One of our customers, Bunny, sent me this and I have her permission to share it with you.
Hard to believe but….
The picture is of two of my granddaughters who are the only two girls on their high school boys varsity soccer team, Foothills Academy, Scottsdale, AZ. That they were chosen for the team was an honor.
Tonight their school played Our Lady of Sorrows, Phoenix, AZ, so appropriate because their all boy soccer team would not even come on the field if the girls were to play. They would rather forfeit.
The girl’s coach left it up to the team and the girls were part of the decision. They didn’t want the rest of the boys to not be able to play too and they handled it really well. Coaches and players and parents were very supportive. Ready to forfeit, but decided to kick their butts instead. 3-1 halftime now.
Girlpower!
UPDATED by Bunny on 9/22 —
Faith Christian notified Foothills Academy today they would forfeit their game if girls played.
Foothills Academy coach accepted their forfeit. Each player on his team voted. Every player voted to accept the forfeit. Especially noted are the players who are being looked at for college soccer scholarships and whose stats will be affected by each game not played. “I don’t give a damn about my stats, the girls are my team mates.”
The league will be updating their rosters with schools willing to play girls.
There ya go!
Title 9, people, Title 9!
1Damn.
I would have opted for the forfeit.
That way, the other team could have actually paid a cost for their “principles”. As it was, they bullied and won. Bad life lesson.
Though it sounds like they’re such a crappy team, they just didn’t want to get beaten by a team with girls playing on it.
A sad event, all around.
2Getting beat is one thing. Getting beat with girls playing against you must be the worst thing that could happen- except for your GF getting married to another guy that loves her more than me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVTwadMOIQ
The Worst That Could Happen- Brooklyn Bridge featuring Johnny Maestro (RIP)
3Think how bad they would have lost if the girls had played.
4And they would all have got cooties. This was in AZ.
Ground Zero for low IQ Bigots.
Either the boys refused to risk losing to a team with girls on it, or their coach did. Either way, the adults supported this craven cowardice instead of telling them to get their butts out there and play the game.
5Our Lady of Sorrows has forfeited before in order not to lose to a team with girls. Baseball back in 2012. It was all over Faux Snooze at the time.
BTW Our Lady of Sorrows isnt mainline Catholic. According to a piece I read at the time the group that owns the high school broke away from the Church in Rome in the late 60s over some reform or another that made the larger church too liberal for their Puritan tastes.
6I think their boys should have stuck with them and told the loser team…F.U. Foothills Academy needs to get out of that stone age attitude too.
7I know we’re only getting one side of the story, but to me, the foothills coach should’ve stood his ground for those girls. If they’re on the team, then they’re his players just like anyone else. If the other team was balking at playing a team with a couple of black kids would there have been any discussion then? But that’s just my option and I’m just as full of s**t as anybody else. I will however state for the record that anyone anywhere needing a demonstration of how to “man up” just needs to look at that picture. Kudos ladies.
8So that the “other side” of the story is told, the league has a co-ed varsity soccer season in the spring. This is the fall boys varsity soccer season.
http://www.azcaa.com/page/show/2363942-coed-varsity-soccer-2016-
Unfortunately, there is no mention of a co-ed varsity volleyball league; however, there is a boys varsity volleyball league. Shouldn’t the boys be able to play volleyball on the girls teams in the offseason?
Some food for thought?
9The boys of the Lady of Sorrow should return to intramural soccer, if they’re afraid of playing with the big girls.
10The coach of the boy’s team should consider another line of work – something that doesn’t require nearsightedness.
11Opinion. Not option. damn autocorrect.
12What PKM says.
If they’re in the league, then they should play their designated opponents. If they refuse, they should be kicked out of the league.
13I’m surprised they play under the name “Lady of Sorrows.” Shouldn’t that be changed to something more manly? Like “Judas of Sorrows?”
14I think I would have recommended that they take the forfeit and then use the time to have the team scrimmage within itself, say with one girl on each side. That way the boys (and girls) on the team could play. The bully tactics of Lady of Sorrows would not be allowed to stand.
I commend the girls for taking the high road on this, but fear it really was a time to stand up for all player rights to not be bullied.
15Does anyone out there disagree that part of Hillary’s “problem” is carrying 2X chromosomes?
As an (mostly) adult male, it shocks me how childish so many men are around acceptance of women.
16I agree – the girls’ coach should have stood by his players. ALL of his players.
17I had to look at my calendar. It does say 2016.
18To all of the “boys” on those teams: one day you will be men and married. You will be “losing” to a woman on a regular basis. I suggest you learn to deal with it now. It’s called eguality. Sometimes you win… somtimes you lose. Grow a pair.
19“If the other team was balking at playing a team with a couple of black kids would there have been any discussion then?”
Excellent point PP. Excellent point. There were *Christianists who insisted that the bible supported racism based on the “inferiority” of blacks. They lost that totally, so they’ve moved on to women and LBTG folks. Christianists gotta hate somebody to prove how religious they are and that god likes them best.
(*Christian version of Islamists.)
20Thank you Rick, I’m glad I’m not the only one who choked on the irony. Maybe they should consider that their “mascot” is a crybaby girl! (My apologies to BVM, I’m sure she is rolling her eyes!)
21Well, as someone who is of the X persuasion and who worked for more than 20 years at a “traditionally male” occupation, I can promise you that none of the fires I fought, the tanks I climbed to gauge, or the night shifts I worked cared about my plumbing. Neither did the grocery store or the electric company or the mortgage lender.
Obviously, the other team was afraid to compete on the open field and get their sanctimonious b**ts kicked.
22Canyon Athletic Association
23Not really.
Somewhat similar a number of years ago in Missouri a boys basketball team refused to play because one of the referees was a woman. The officials association voted to not work their games for the rest of the year.
24Incidentally, that picture of the 2 girls is really striking. Very atmospheric, and with interesting composition. It’s like an updated Edward Hopper, or something.
25The only ones who showed team unity were the girls. Shame on the coach and other players.
26Letting “the team decide” is not coaching.
He/she should have stood up and said “we play as a team or not at all”.
That was the saddest picture I’ve seen in a long time.
I agree with sophia. The team let their girls down. What a disgrace.
27And my message to the Canyon Athletic Association is that keeping players of your team when the earned the right to play as equals through hard work, skill and just outright playing better during tryouts because you don’t like the way their genes expressed themselves is not only unsportsmanlike, it’s unethical and morally deplorable.
28OTOH. I’m sure that if the coach hadn’t let the rest of the team play, some of the other players’ parents would have wanted his head on a stick and/or his job. Because values, or something.
29Great comments. The girl’s not playing worked out in the best possible way, the spotlight is on an issue we thought was resolved long ago. Had they walked off, no photo and story .
30Their coach was blindsided by Our Lady of Sorrows and gave the team the final choice. By halftime he was regretful he didn’t make the decision to walk off for the girls’ sake, as a coach and male role model and a member of the league. It was a great team building experience, boys and girls are one going forward. Thanks JJ for giving us a social justice platform.
Yeah, that wasn’t the “team’s” call. In doing that they marginalized and excluded their teammates. Coach should have said “team is team” and taken the forfeit. Someone has to be the grownup.
31the whole thing was handled poorly. Letting bullies get what they want is called reinforcing bad behavior.
32I think some teams need to be kicked out of the Canyon Athletic Association. I also some “Christians” need a little learning on equality, fairness and dear God it is 2016.
33Thanks for the update. Glad to hear some folks came to their senses!
34Perhaps the opposing team should ask itself why their lady is sorrowful. It may have more to do with current events and less with church dogma.
35What a great update!
Foothills Academy rocks!!
36Thanks for the update.
37So glad they did the right thing.
38I think the girls led by their example of putting the team first, and it caused this final positive outcome. Yes, GIRL POWER!
39When I was young, my city league baseball team had a girl player. She pitched, played first base, and hit .300. Third best player on the team. I loved her, even after she broke my bat.
Girls can compete against boys in almost any arena, and vice versa.
40This makes me proud of these young people. Here’s wishing the best for every one of them.
41Great news!!!
42I’m confused. Did they or did they not play? Sounds like there was a half time score, but the update says the other team forfeited?
43Guess they were afraid of kicking it like a girl!
44I love anything that comes close ta a happy ending!
45I love baseball more than any sport. I played it; I love it; I was pretty good at it. Baseball is the epitome of sports; the Crown Prince of sports. If you think otherwise, you are just wrong. I’m sorry, but you are just wrong. I have it first hand from indisputable deity.
Some years ago, I had the opportunity to watch (in abject wonder and dismay) some ‘girls’ play fast-pitch softball on the diamond at Town Lake in Austin.
Thank God I played baseball before Title IX; the girls would have mopped the infield with us, and any survivors would have been enslaved in child-rearing and eternal mortgage maintenance.
Dang they were good! Disciplined and practiced way beyond any of my teammates.
That was the beginning of my understanding that there are superior humans out there, and only a few of them are carrying the X and the Y.
46Timbo: well alrighty then. I’m just wrong.
Won’t be the last time, either.
But back to soccer: those boys were afraid of getting their butts kicked by girls. And they were probably right.
47It starts with adults, not the kids. It’s the adults who teach the kids that girls have cooties, and girls don’t belong on school teams, and it’s so much worse to play with girls on the field. Boys learn from men, and some men, dadgummit, just will not change until their boys never get to play because they forfeit any game that requires playing against girls.
48Nothing like teaching young men respect and dignity for women/girls like getting physical and treating them like one of the “guys” on the soccer field right??? Varsity soccer is physical game and the first time one of these cute girls gets seriously hurt the tables will turn and the title IX PC’s will cry that the boys are playing too aggressively! Good for this school understanding there are differences in the sexes. Another example political correctness killing our society.
49Gee camber45, nothing says misogynist like your overly concerned trolling of these “cute” girls getting hurt and the boys not learning to respect girls because the girls are just like the boys – human beings. If these girls weren’t good enough to play varsity soccer they wouldn’t be on the team. You do realize that there’s a women’s soccer league and their play is just as physical as men. People like you are killing our society not “political correctness”.
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