Published August 24, 2012 - 1:55pm
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Mo Isom did not make the LSU football team by the looks of her latest tweet via her Twitter account.
I am heartbroken, but my head is held high. Knowing I gave everything I had is the greatest victory. Unending thanks to my LSU football fam.
— Mo Isom (@MoIsom) August 24, 2012
But you can’t discount a winner’s heart and what she has overcome in her life.
Isom was hoping to be the SEC’s first ever female football player, but that dream looks like it sadly ended today.
But she didn’t want anything, not even history, to be given to her at LSU. She wanted to earn it, and that’s more than you can say for thousands of other college athletes.
She will have a fabulous career at whatever she pursues in the future.
I am as LSU as it gets. I think Mo is a wonderful athlete and an even better person.
She shouldn’t have even been allowed to tryout for a position on the football team. No male would have been allowed to tryout for the soccer team.
Why the double standard? Why the incessant coverage and encouragement of the double standard?
She has to compete with guys for the job. I understand your point, but it’s not a double standard. If it were an intellect thing it would be (affirmative action is a double standard, because it assumed minorities are incapable out out competing their non minority rivals, in reality they are not), but women have to be stronger and better athletes than their male counterparts to make a male sport/career. So women are at a genuine disadvantage to make a male team, whereas a man is not a any legitimate disadvantage to make a female team.
As an example, a prospective female firefighter must pass the EXACT same CPAT (perhaps the most fair and accurate test of an applicants ability to perform actual firefighting task). Only 30% of total applicants pass the CPAT, therefore it is hard. If a woman passes it than it is not a double standard because nothing was altered to allow her to pass it in preference to a male.
I don’t believe this LSU kicker was trying out under different standards than her male counterparts, thus no double standard.