Newbie questions

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

I'll tell you what. When the ratio of male basketball officials to female gets above, oh let's say 100:1, then maybe you'll have a legitimate case to make and I'll worry more about it.

Do you mean below 100:1? Then, we're already there, since nationwide the ratio of male to female basketball officials is about 10:1, and even lower in some localities.

JR, it's not a chip on the shoulder. It's an insistence that the reality of females in the fellowship be recognized. You'd never know it on this board, but there are lots and lots of female basketball officials, and the language needs to reflect that.

Now you guys can bait all you want to, if that makes you happy. I'm going to spend the weekend worrying about something more important than the fragility of the male ego.

[Mwanr1]

Where I'm from (BAY AREA), many female officials..... 10 to 1 is still rather high... more like 6:1.

-M

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Now you guys can bait all you want to, if that makes you happy. I'm going to spend the weekend worrying about something more important than the fragility of the male ego.

And we'll promise not to concern ourselves with the fragile female ego. See, we're equal. You're fragile, I'm fragile, the whole damn place is a house of cards ready to collapse at the slightest breeze. Right?

I don't know about the rest of you, but in the circles I run in the ratio of male to female officials is much closer to 100:1 than it is to 10:1. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I worked a regular season game above the middle school level with a woman. And that's a shame, because believe it or not I really, really (really) like women. I have run into a few women doing the women's end of a men/women ncaa date...but we never shared the same game.

I'm not saying that because I'm a knuckle draggin' neo-whateverthefrigyoucallit...it's just the plain truth of the matter.

Anyways, I hope I didn't damage any fragile egos, and if I did...well, tough.

[Nevadaref]

I just checked the numbers for you, Juulie.
There are 110 registered HS officials in my local area. Three of those are females.