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Friday, May 23, 2003
posted by gbarto at 4:25 AM:
Marcus is being silly again, thinking life ought to be fair, make sense or at least fail to make sense consistently. Those of a conservative temperament should know better.Writing about women in men's golf, Marcus asserts:
Then I thought, after a decade or so of getting creamed all the time, the women would likely want so split off again and have their own competition.So? It is said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. The hypocrisies in this situation also constitute a tribute, an unspoken acknowledgment of the fear felt by starry-eyed idealists of uniform equality that Marcus may have a more accurate read on gender differences than they. So long as the LPGA exists independently, Marcus can take satisfaction in knowing that even those who disagree with him on paper can't bring themselves to take the risks involved in putting their ideals into full practice. What's called for, Marcus, if you want to come off well in this, is not moral outrage but a condescending shrug of "there they go again." Your vindication won't make the front pages, but you'll know it when you see it. And that is about as much as a conservative can ask for, or for that matter, should want to.
As for me, I'm enjoying the story and like seeing one woman's particular achievements acknowledged. But as for how the PGA and LPGA organize, my number one emotion is indifference. They are private associations that must maintain an interest in their game if they are to continue. Not being a golf fan, I'll leave it to golf fans to decide the issue as they should - by tuning in or turning off their sets until the free market has tallied up the results and rendered its verdict.
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