BOYS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN (WITH SPHERICAL OBJECTS OF VARIOUS SIZES): Last week, I posted that modern feminists don’t seem to care that women are now routinely discriminated against in college admissions, especially at small liberal arts colleges that complain of “too many women.” Indeed, this may be the most blatant form of discrimination that women face today. But women’s organizations ignore it, often in favor of fighting much less obvious wrongs. Why?

Part of the reason is that their own Title IX in athletics policies—which make it very difficult for small schools to entice men to enroll by offering them a chance to play on a varsity team—helped create the problem.  These policies require schools to spend proportionally on men’s and women’s athletics, unless they can absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it, prove that women have all the athletic opportunities they want.  So schools that think they don’t have “enough men” just discriminate at the intake level instead.

Another consequence of these Title IX policies is that they make it harder for schools to spend money on non-athletic extracurricular activities that many women would prefer.   The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.