[Vision2020] bonhom lacrosse

[Melynda Huskey]

Dale asks:  Can you just imagine what the likes of Rosemary Huskey, et al, 
would say to little boys playing rugby! I'm sure they would have a fit at 
something as physical and "rough" as Lacrosse -- even with helmets and pads! 
Someone may get beat up, or fall down and get hurt. Yikes!

I am the likes of Rosemary Huskey, I think, if not the woman herself, and my 
question is this:

Will the growing Bonhom-Athletic complex offer "Trinitarian" young women the 
opportunity to celebrate the beautiful mechanisms of the human body and the 
glories of intense physical competition through lacrosse?  Or rugby?  Both 
are very popular sports among women at the college level.

Celebrating Title IX and its splendid legacy of opportunity for women,

Melynda Huskey

"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward 
weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever: this is our 
testimony to the whole world."
Quaker Declaration of 1660





>From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>
>To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] bonhom lacrosse
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:39:55 -0800
>
>Sunil,
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>And, BTW, it was not Nate Wilson who you should be replying to but Ben
>Merkel. Ben posted that initial note.
>
>Finally, I find your reference to an American Indian sport in such a manner
>as being highly disingenuous and not very sensitive to American Indians and
>their culture -- you are saying that the American Indians themselves were
>Pretty Boys and wimps? It's just not a very Politically Correct position to
>take, especially by a lawyer! <Tongue still firmly implanted in cheek>
>
>Best,
>Dale Courtney
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
>Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
>Sent: Tuesday, 11 March, 2003 10:22
>To: dale@courtneys.us; vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] bonhom lacrosse
>
>
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>When I played rugby at UC Davis (poorly, on the third and fourth sides;
>opposing players took turns seeing how far they could fling me), we loathed
>the lacrosse players. We called them Pretty Boys, who protected their
>delicate facial features by wearing helmets with face masks, and confirmed
>their cowardice by wearing pads. It did not escape our attention that their
>games drew more attractive women than did ours, and lots more of them;
>apparently our practice of singing vulgar and boorish songs and dousing 
>each
>other with the beer we didn’t drink at our post-game parties made us less
>than charming companions.
>
>For their part, the lacrosse club viewed us as drunken louts, and
>occasionally publicly observed that our ears grew lumpier as the season 
>wore
>on, most of us had broken noses, and we were idiots.
>
>It is in that spirit that I rise to your bait, Nate, to condemn the
>formation of the Bonham Lacrosse Club. Again, Dale, I must protest your
>willingness to put liberals in boxes. I, as a liberal, care not that Native
>Americans started this vile game you embrace; it bothers me not at all that
>white male Englishmen invented rugby. On behalf of drunken louts of all
>colors and creeds, I challenge you to forsake lacrosse and instead play a
>real game, one whose intense physicality begins where lacrosse players 
>leave
>off, retreating home and weeping into their hankies.
>
>P.S. Based upon his own report of his boxing match, I must exclude Nate 
>from
>the Pretty Boy category of lacrosse players. Also, his willingness to box
>indicates that he may have an inner rugby player, yearning for freedom.
>
>Sunil Ramalingam
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