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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Finally, a closing thought from working with an all-girls team for 5 years. Our drive team is most often ignored by other drive teams. Not because we don't have something valuable to say, or because our students are timid or shy, or because we've done poorly in the past (highest seeded rookie team, finalist the next 3 years, and winning at North Star this year). Can you explain why that is if it's not gender based?
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for the past 2 (possible 3) years my former team had an all girl drive team despite not being a all girl team and i would be very interested to hear from them on weather they experienced this as well. i no longer believe that all girl teams should be discouraged by FIRST but I do believe that they shouldn't be encouraged. In my years in first the announcement of every all girl team has been preceded by "the all girl team from _______ it's ______" however the only other case i have heard an announcer do that is with a team from a deaf school comprised of all deaf students. if i remember correctly, in all ,my years with FIRST, i used my ears more than my penis and would only consider one of those things a handicap.
my point is; if FIRST treats being a woman as a handicap then its no wonder that products of that organization. will look at girls from all girl teams as being sheltered and less component.
this can also be seen in sports you cant probably build a list of objectively the best mens and womans basketball teams in order. but it would be quite hard to make a single objective list if the two leags never interact