Category: Punditry
Posted by George Bullard on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AMObama, golf and gender-specific sport
President Obama is outscoring George Bush in one category: Most golf games played by a commander-in-chief. Critics delighted in accusing Bush of his laid-back approach to the presidency. As it turns out, Obama has already played 24 rounds of presidential golf,a tally it took Bush nearly three years to reach.
Obama is blamed for golfing and basketballing mostly with men. I don't blame him for that. That's what guys do: work out with other guys. Sports are segregated by sex on just about every level, including high school, college and pro teams. Girls play like girls. Boys play like boys.
If there were true equality in, say, football, 300 pound women would be allowed to try for MSU football scholarships.
Curves, the popular workout system, bills itself as a gym for women, with no hint of allowing men members, despite being a public facility. Nobody much cares. Because that's what women do: work out with other women. Reminds me of the Detroit Athletic Club, which was once all men but in 1987 was nudged into allowing women.
Here for golf.
