We’re deep into the college football season, and that means the men of America will be retreating into their annual hibernation-in-the-man-cave. Well, the caricatures of American men are doing this, anyway.
Hold the phones! An AP source has reported that for next year’s committee to pick the top four college football teams, a woman is being considered as a member. You already know her. She is Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State under president George W. Bush.
Many are critiquing the rumor. From David Pollack’s little shrug confirming he wasn’t comfortable with women on the committee on ESPN’s College Gameday Saturday morning, to former Auburn coach and professional old guy Pat Dye implying Rice would pick teams depending on their “smooth talking” ability, reasoning behind the critiques varies. Even an al.com reporter expressed his displeasure with the choice, noting she was a “class act” and “one of the most powerful and respected individuals in the world.” Don’t you just hate it when people with so many skills get considered for a football committee?
As many have pointed out, Rice has never played football a day in her life. They’re right; she doesn’t know what it feels like to have the ball in her hands as she sprints down the field, sweating and cold at the same time. How can she be a part of a committee when we all know committees always make decisions through Spartan death matches of football? Wait, I’m being told we don’t do that. Lame.
It’s not like she’s ever been on a committee involving football before. One woman I asked about the issue, who asked to be referred to as K., noted that “the determining factor in candidate selection should be job-related experience.”
Some men still have the audacity to argue against this. One sports fan in my neighborhood said, “I have no problem with Miss Condoleezza Rice serving as a member of the committee. Miss Rice has proven through her accomplishments she can master subject areas she may previously had little experience with.” Of course, he requested to remain anonymous. Hide behind the curtain of anonymity, you cowardly, reasonable man!
She probably doesn’t even knows anything about sports; she’s a girl (and we all know girls spend their Saturdays shopping). According to SB Nation, Rice only went to Alabama, the biggest football college in America, became one of the first two females to join the Augusta National Golf Club, and dreamed of becoming the NFL commissioner.
What could she possibly bring to the table of the committee? Since when has being Secretary of State for the United States ever been useful in making compromises for committees and being a neutral party? Oh, that’s apparently what Secretaries of State are expected to do.
I don’t need things like “facts” and “common sense” to prove these critics are right. We all know they aren’t being misogynist at all.
Sadly, some people can’t be convinced. Junior Crystal Ganatra says, “I think that’s [reasons people are coming up with] ridiculous.” She went on to say she’s not going to listen to any station that would express such views on the matter. There’s no helping people like her.
In the end, we don’t really know how Rice would do on the committee. We just know people are going to keep talking about it in the whiniest, most patronizing fashion possible. Whoops, I meant “respectable.” That’s totally what I meant.
