How sexist is this?

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I teach in Eastern North Carolina and it is time for the conference basketball tournaments. Both our man and our women's teams have done well with our men seeded 3rd and our women 1st (they are undefeated). Now here is the sexist part. Our men will host the number 6 team on Monday and if they win they will go to the number 2 seeds court. Our women get Monday off but on Wednesday they go to the school of the number one men's seed and play a team to be determined. Yep, that's right, the number 1 seeds for both men and women play at the site of the number one men's team. This evidently is how it is done in this neck of the woods but I find it insane. It isn't even like they are holding all the games on one site and thus saving on transportation. Our cheerleaders will have to choose between the games. This strikes me as amazingly sexist.

[newscott]

1. Did you hear about the Olympic ski team?

They told all the skiers that they only had enough money to pay for the top MALE athlete's expenses for the Torino games.

[bobbieinok]

2. are you serious????? the US team said that?????

[seriousstan]

5. Self-delete, replied to wrong post....sorry

[dsc]

3. You can't be serious

I thought all athletes got the same money (whatever the sport). That is down right amazing.

[seriousstan]

6. I call B.S.. Link?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. Bode Miller's booze bill doesn't pay itself

That's a fact.

[Teaser]

4. "What's the matter with being sexy?"

:)

[Blackflon]

7. Say What?

You're biggest worry is about seedings in a basketball game? Am I missing something here?

[dsc]

10. can ypu please quote, from my op, where I say this is my biggest worry

I would like a quote, that is somewhere in my post where I use those exact words. Please provide it since you are claiming I said it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. Will the finals be played there......

....regardless of the men's #1 seed winning to make it to the finals or not?

This is actually a fairly common practice in some of the small colleges around here so they combine the tourneys and get people to attend the women's games.

Although, I don't really understand why the whole tourney for both men's and women's isn't just played there. That would be easiest I think.

[dsc]

9. high school not college

as to what happens if the number 1 team loses on Wed. I haven't a clue. My guess is that the highest remaining men's seed would host the rest of the games. Ironicly that could put it back at our school if the men's team won their game.

[sandnsea]

12. mens & womens??

Interesting. We call our high school teams girls & boys. Just another interesting regional difference. I don't recall how the locations of games are chosen. I'm inclined to think deference is given to the boys, but Oregon is pretty good with girls' sports so I could be wrong.

[dsc]

13. I think they call them boys and girls

but I prefer men and women. I feel it is insulting to call a 18 year old female a girl and even worse to call a black 18 year old male a boy. I teach about 2 thirds seniors.

[sandnsea]

14. Asked my son

He said the girls and boys are just flat separate, where one plays has nothing to do with the other. He also said the site of tournaments and that sort of thing is based on the quality of the location, and also rotates among the various schools and has nothing to do with current standings or that sort of thing. For instance, state and conference finals are all at one of the universities. His district finals were chosen at the beginning of each track season, same with the other sports as far as he remembers. It just all rotates like that so everybody has an opportunity to host them because they are money makers and all the schools need the money. Is that sort of what you mean??

[dsc]

16. That is to some extent how our state playoffs work

But our conference tourney is held at the boys top seeds. It would be one thing if everyone were playing at one spot but evidently it is played at two spots. So schools like ours with have the men's team playing in one place and the women's at another.

[Egalitariat]

15. I'm sure it has to do with money. Men's BB teams tend to draw more

paying fans.