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Dear Commission Member,
I urge you to reform the current policies implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to stop the blatant discrimination against males presently taking place.
Title IX guarantees equality for boys and men in all education programs and activities that receive federal funding, including athletics programs and gender specific studies. Since the enactment of Title IX, opportunities for men's participation in athletics have greatly diminished. Increased opportunities for women and girls under Title IX have come at the expense of male athletes. Meanwhile, women's studies has been blatantly violating this act for many years without any proper legal enforcement to provide educational opporunities for males specific to their own gender issues.
Title IX has been hijacked and used as a recruiting tool for female supremacist hate groups to further divide males and females while creating an atmosphere of hostility and hatred against a clearly identifiable group of American citizens, males. Title IX needs to be reformed.
As such, it is my position that:
• Changes to the Title IX standards that would end the loss of opportunities for men and boys are warranted and necessary.
• Vigorous federal enforcement of Title IX at every level of education has been perverted into a political tool for a female supremacist hate movement that seeks to destroy all programs known to produce significant numbers of male leaders while simultaneously using force of law to divert funding to female only programms which are incapable of generating enough revenue to maintain themselves.
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I believe we should not trust that NOW will send these emails without first reading and censoring (deleting) them. We know what a fascist group they are. They would never allow our letters to go out if they could find an easy way to stop them. Lets simply take their code and put it on our site so we can make certain our letters reach the intended recipients.
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I can speak from experience on this.
I used NOW's webtool to send a note to my congress-critter *AGAINST* (they wanted for) the VAWA.
It did send, but either the congress-critter in question didn't really read my note, or NOW substituted it's own content, as I received a response speaking as if I *supported* VAWA!!!!
This may not be due to editing by NOW, as snail-mail I have sent to representatives has also gotten responses indicating they thought I had a POV 180 degrees opposite.
David S
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I sent a hand-written letter to my Congress-critter (Rep. Chris Smith, D-NJ) protesting his support of VAWA, and he did the same thing! So don't necessarily assume that NOW was responsible (not that I'd be surprised if they did). These idiots get entrenched in their positions and spew the BS regardless of what's going on in their districts and regardless of what the individual voter thinks. It's rather insulting, really. They're telling you: "I support this!! I don't care what you think. In fact, I think you should thank me for fucking you!!"
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NOW does not show the sender the email address that these letters are going to, which makes me sorry that they are filtering out any 'incorrect' letters before sending.
The email address these letters should go to is:
OpportunityinAthletics@ed.gov
Copy theirs and paste in your own words if you want, but if you use their tool it appends 'NOW' to your email address as sender to make sure they know your letter comes from a feminist hate group. Your words may be glossed over as the letter is simply counted as a vote for NOW's sexist position, regardless of what you write. Be careful.
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C'mon people, let's see some action on this subject! I've sent mine directly to OpportunityinAthletics@ed.gov, what about you?
Mitchell A. Smith
"An ambiguous perspective is all you can hope for when initially confronted by that which you do not know."
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday November 26, @05:34PM EST (#6)
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Is it not possible that NOW will say "We asked the community for letters of support for Title IX and received x thousands of letters" and include your letter in that count? Then they might then not actually show your letter to the relevant people, and nobody would know you are actually against Title IX!
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I think the note is being sent directly to the commission-- unless there is some way a person can edit/review them before being sent on, which I doubt is something capwiz would allow (then anyone could edit or change anything in any set of notes, couldn't they?)
You can always I suppose look up the commission's e-mai address on the web and then send the note directly from your e-mail acct.
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I re-sent my letter from my e-mail address directly to OpportunityinAthletics@ed.gov. Everyone, you may want to do the same to be sure.
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... went as follows:
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Dear Commission Member,
Please stop supporting the current policies implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and recommend that they be seriously and thoughtfully reviewed.
Title IX was meant to guarantee equality for girls and women in all education programs and activities that receive federal funding, including athletics programs. Since the enactment of Title IX, opportunities for women's participation in athletics have expanded somewhat, but at a terrible price-- opportunities for boys and young men-- and not due to problems with funding, but instead due to administrators' fears that if "the numbers" don't show a "balance of participation", then the institution will get sued, fined, etc. Increased opportunities for women and girls under Title IX has thus come at the expense of male athletes, all in the name of an agenda which is at best questionable in its intent and efficaciousness and at worst, decidely misandronistic. An oft-cited March 2001 study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) is quoted as saying that 72 percent of colleges and universities added women's teams without cutting any men's teams-- well, what of the boys and men in that 18%? Is the fact that their equal access rights to opportunities for athletics were denied simply "statistically unimportant"?
Title IX was intended to provide equal opportunity-- if those who would take the opportunities choose not to, then so be it. Eqaul opportunity and equal outcomes are two different things-- unless one is seeking to engineer some aspect of society for their own ends. Title IX needs to be reviewed and the attitide around its enforcement be questions.
Girls and women get plenty of chances to particpate in sports-- if they don't do so as much as boys and men, is it the boys or men's fault?
Males should not have to pay in some way for an absence on some campuses of interest in sports particpation among women by having their opportunities for it denied.
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