No Girls Allowed!

By: Nikita Blue -- Nate Hernandez of Weld County stood up against gender discrimination - and punched it right in the face. There was a football game involving 9 to 11 year old kids. Shockingly, one of these players was a girl. [Insert obligatory Hollywood horror-film scream]. Hernandez was sticking up for that girl's right to play and demanding that she receive a personal explanation as to why she couldn't compete. Their [Eaton's] justification was that their religious beliefs prevented them from allowing the boys to "hit" a girl.
So, let's start with this: girls are clearly separate from boys - and are so fragile by comparison that they need to be protected from the brutish monsters. Girls are therefore not equal to boys. Girls are weaker, or somehow less capable. So far, this is a great message to send to our kids. This mentality might even result in twisted, chauvanistic grownups who respond to gender inequality as follows:
 

This statement was accredited to "Guest" on the 7 News website comments below the story, so we'll never know what other carefully-thought-out responses he trends toward in the future.
This, however, is what the 11-year-old girl, Mikayla Crespin had to say about the situation:

At least someone in this crazy, segregated world has their head on straight. This has blown up into a huge back-and-forth between the muck-headed individuals who think that girls should stay home, cook, clean and get pregnant - and stop threatening their masculinity - and those, such as myself, who can't figure out why in this day and age we're even having the conversation. Nine- to eleven-year-old kids. If you wanted to make the argument that there are vast differences between men and women regarding strength, size, and shape, you might want to avoid referencing ambiguously featured, prepubescent children. They are practically identical as far as their capacities for competition and their physical attributes are concerned.
According to Mikayla, she can take on not one but two boys successfully. She's not exactly a delicate flower. She sounds like a kick-ass chick... and one who threatened the other team's machismo.

Ok, now that I think it over, I get it: it's important to our society as a whole that we perpetuate the preconceived notion that boys are better than girls. It's important for future generations to realize that girls should not be respected; they should be protected. Well why didn't I think of that before? I guess I must've just been blinded by the idiotic beliefs I carried into adulthood about being able to do whatever I put my mind to. God, my parents were so dumb! I sure hope that we can save others from suffering the same "upside downn and backward" fate that I suffered. I only hope it's not too late to save little Mikayla!

Photo of Mikayla Crespin Courtesy of GirlsCantWhat

Nikita Blue

Email: nikitablue23@hotmail.com