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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3113853, member: 6927"] It's one thing to wax eloquent and rattle off statistics. It's another to correctly diagnose a problem and put forward the best and most progressive solution. First of all, let's call this what it is: Muffet is using gender as a cudgel with which to bash Geno over the head. Do we really think she's pissed that, say, Doug Bruno is allowed to be the WBB coach at DePaul? Or that Scott Rueck is the coach of Oregon State? Of course not. Now, treating her claims at face value for a moment: Her reasoning and solution are that: (a) because 99 to 100 percent of coaches in men's basketball are men, (b) therefore 99-100% of WBB coaches should be women. Good grief. This is so wrong-headed I don't know where to begin. She's invoking the logic of de jure segregation. By that logic, back in the day when (for example) virtually all doctors and lawyers were males, her solution would have been to allow only female physicians and female attorneys to treat female patients and clients — rather than challenging the notion that any client or patient can be equally well served by a professional of the opposite sex. This is a retrograde philosophy masquerading as progressivism. No thanks. [/QUOTE]