As Gamecock women's soccer player jyllissa_harris tweeted: 'If you want to honor female student athletes, then do that, not this.'
responded to the clip, writing"All female student athletes were ~asked~ to come to the game to recognize 50 years of Title IX. We were on the field for maybe 15 seconds then screamed at to get off. If you want to honor female student athletes, then do that, not this.", and clarified that he didn't know the ceremony was taking place."I apologize to anyone that I offended," Beamer said.
But the interaction at the UofSC game is almost too perfect a symbol of the systemic discrimination that still faces women athletes 50 years after Title IX was passed. It's not about how much you champion women's sports in theory — whether as an individual person, an institution, or an entire society — it's what you do in practice that really matters.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, what went down at UofSC should be a continued call to action for all sports institutions: Women belong on the field.
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