A few weeks ago at the NFL combine, Lauren Silberman tried out to play professional football. Although her tryout failed rather miserably due to an injury, she was still the first woman ever to even attempt to play in the NFL.
The thing is, I don’t think that women should be trying to play in the NFL.
I don’t even think girls should be playing pee wee football and on the little league baseball team instead of the softball team.
As much as feminists may like to argue with this, men and women are different. They don’t do all the same things and have all the same jobs.
Physically, men and women are obviously very dissimilar. Guys are generally taller, bigger built, more muscular, faster and stronger. When you take fitness tests in high school, the guys’ standards are always higher than the girls’ standards.
When it comes down to it, girls and guys just don’t have the same athletic capabilities. I think that sports are just one of the areas in life where guys’ and girls’ skills don’t line up.
Girls should stay off the football field unless they’re wearing cheerleading uniforms.
Then again, I’m also the girl who makes sandwich and driving jokes so I’m not too big on the whole feminist thing.
Guys are always taught not to hit girls, so what does that mean when we put them in a bunch of pads and a helmet and say that it’s OK to hit them now?
It almost becomes an issue of respect when we put girls on the field with guys.
I’ve also never heard of a guy wanting to play sports on a girls’ team. Girls go to guys’ teams to play at a tougher level, but guys don’t want to come down a level to play against girls.
It’s not because girls are any less talented, they just aren’t built to have athleticism equivalent to that of guys, so they shouldn’t be playing with and against them.
So back to Silberman’s tryout: She obviously wanted to make a statement that girls can play with the big boys. If she’s going to try out with guys, she has to be expected to be judged with the guys too. I can’t say I really feel bad that her poor kicking got heavily criticized – she was asking for attention.
Just like men and women have their own locker rooms for a reason, they have their own teams and there is no need to try and switch it up.
