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Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer
Why even bring up the video?
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The video is a sociological comment on the differences, despite forty years of equal funding under Title IX, between boys and girls, and mens and womens, basketball. The fact that the girls in the dunking contest have to dunk on an eight foot basket may be viewed by some as demeaning to the sport of girls, or womens, basketball. It would have been very simple to post a video of Brittney Griner dunking in a high school, or NCAA game, but that would be the exception, not the rule. Title IX does not effect levels of testosterone in the blood, and its effect on musculature in the human body, and thus JRutledge's comment that,
"No above the rim play in these games for sure", should not be viewed as a derogatory statement, and it is as true today as it was forty years ago, and will be true in the foreseeable future.
My daughter played girls high school basketball, I officiate girls high school basketball, we have a top notch womens NCAA team here in Connecticut, we have a successful professional womens team here in Connecticut, yet it still girls, or womens basketball, and it will always be girls, or womens basketball. I like it, I enjoy officiating it, I enjoy watching it, but it's not the same as boys, or mens basketball, and I don't think that it will ever be the same, it certainly will never be the same in my lifetime.
The video that I posted can be viewed on many different levels, with many implications, which is why I posted it.