Because of this ...
TODAY
– A top player on a basketball team has been barred from playing in an
upcoming game, and it doesn’t have anything to do with how she handles
herself on the court.
It’s that she’s even there in the first place.
Jaelyn
Bates, a fourth-grader, is a powerful player on the Frey Basketball
Academy team, but now she’s been told she can’t compete with her
teammates.
“Because
I’m a girl, and they’re boys,” Jaelyn, 10, told NBC’s Dave Briggs. Her
dad Barry Bates says that her skills on the court measure up to those of
the other athletes on her team, even though they’re all boys.
“She
fares very well, no difference than any boy with her skills would
have,” said Bates. “She gets hurt like every other kid gets hurt. She
scores like every other kid scores.”
The boys don’t have a problem with a girl being on their team. But some adults do.
And now this ...
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Seriously,
Woman's Day? There is a difference between
take-charge types, leaders and
bossy, confident and aggressive?
Really? The emphasis above is mine, by the way. To me the difference
is your choice of nouns for boys and adjectives for girls, but don't
mind me and my picky grammatical way of looking at things.
This is important!
Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
Event to launch “No Ceilings Conversation” Series
(NEW
YORK, NY) – April 11, 2014 – On Thursday April 17th, Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Chelsea Clinton will host Girls: A No Ceilings
Conversation – the first in a series of No Ceilings Conversation events
designed to provide a forum to hear from girls and women around the
world. Moderated by actress and advocate America Ferrera, Girls: A No
Ceilings Conversation will bring together girls to talk about their
lives, experiences, and hopes for the future.
Taking place at the
Lower Eastside Girls Club in
New York City, the conversation will join girls from the Girls Club,
the Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Inc., Girl Up, the Young Women’s
Leadership Network and four schools from across the country on
Microsoft’s Skype Software: Seattle Girls' School in Seattle,
Washington; the Hathaway Brown School for Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio;
The York County School District in York, Virginia; and the KIPP Delta
High School in Helena, Arkansas. The conversation, powered by Microsoft,
will be streamed to allow people from around the world to join the
conversation remotely and ask questions via online video streaming and
Twitter.
This conversation is part of the Clinton Foundation’s initiative,
No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project,
which seeks to advance the full participation of women and girls around
the world. These conversations and the ones to follow will be used to
shape and inform the work of No Ceilings.
WHAT: Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation
WHO: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and America Ferrera
WHEN: Thursday, April 17, 2014
Event: 3:00pm
WHERE: Lower Eastside Girls Club
Follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #noceilings
The
articles above are two that happened to show up in my MSN newsfeed on
the past two consecutive days. They demonstrate the need for this
No Ceilings
symposium. I hope parents and teachers will make sure the girls in
their care are aware of this event and are online on Thursday and
participating.
In my opinion, boys can also benefit from watching
what goes on at this event. According to the first story, the boys do
not have a problem with Jaelyn playing. The adults do (which is
pathetic). Boys need to know that supporting a teammate in a situation
like this is the right thing to do. They need to know that they can get
adult support when they are right.
Enough is enough! This nonsense has run its course.
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
