I was reading the paper this morning, waiting for others to wake up so that we can head out to the mountains for break. I never read the small local editorials in the paper—expect today. The line “Male player spoils rise of Donegal’s girls team” caught my eye. It seems that the Donegal girls field hockey team was beaten by Wyoming Seminary in a tight game. Wyoming Seminary was led by (actually most of the heavy lifting was done by one player)—a male, exchange student from Germany who is part of Germany’s national male field hockey team. Don’t believe me. Read this story about it from the ironically (in this case) named site Rivals.com debating whether this German boy has an unfair advantage because he is faster, quicker and stronger than all of the girls that he plays against:

Male player spoils rise of Donegal’s girls team

This issue is comically sad. We as a culture have been blinded. Paul warns of this in Romans 1. We cannot see male and female anymore. We have taken the principles of equality and fairness which within a biblical framework and worldview are good, right, and blessed, and we have made and altar out of them and have sacrificed good sense, and, ironically, fairness on this altar. At this level, boys should not be allowed to play against girls in many athletic sports. Boys are stronger, and faster than girls. Athletic competition should encourage betterment, discipline, and excellence. This can do nothing but yield despair. Yet, our culture puzzles over it, unable to understand what has gone wrong even subtly accusing parents who are offended by the fact that their girls are being pummeled by boys from the German National Team of being closed minded.

This is just another reason why a Christian worldview is so important. We have to see through this stuff, refuse to wrestle with it, and both giggle (this actually would be a help to some of the most radical equality advocates who really need to lighten up and just see the German boy running circles around the girls) and cry alternately at our culture’s blindness.

Note to self (and others) bad things are coming if we are this blind.