Recovering Hillbilly, I appreciate your concise recitation of my position, although I wouldn’t call myself a conservative. I admit I’ve vented a little and been too vague. So let me clarify my concerns just a bit.
Yes, there is a real problem with misandry in our culture, which leads to the degradation in priority for SUNY athletic budgets. Collegiate athleticism, given the obvious and overwhelming commercial popularity of the main male sports of basketball and football, continues to be closely associated with patriarchal culture, and therefore subject to elite feminist-centered contempt. And when I use the term feminist, I‘m not referring to men vs. women, but to an increasingly powerful world-view which institutionalizes misandry.
(See, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanson_and_YoungNote that this troubling world-view is adopted and pursued by many male cultural leaders.)
And in addition to the gender divide, the male half of the equation is further sub-divided into politically correct sub-stratums, with certain “historically privileged” males being more subject to contempt than other classes of males.
Are any of these important cultural mega-trends behind:
1. SUNY’s unwillingness to mount a serious effort to create a primary-tier athletic program to compete with the other major public university systems?
2. SUNY’s decision to appoint Judith Kaye to basically legislate future SUNY athletic policy via her injection into the controversy at Binghamton?
(See, for example,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/baskerville3.html , which comments on the serious civil rights deprivations which have resulted from the family law policies created by Judge Kaye and her feminist brethren over the past few decades.);
3. UB continuing to be complacent with a basketball program that, for years, has shown no reasonable hope of upward trajectory?
(For example, we're playing Buffalo State today!!! And the victory will be added to our official won-loss record!!! That's pretty darn pathetic for a Division I program.)
4. This Board’s decision to move a thread critical of the Basketball coach to a location other than within the Basketball section of the website?
You tell me.
