Women are allowed to lose, too
Zachary Faria
Even when a women’s sport finally reaches a similar level to its men’s counterpart, some liberals can’t help but treat it as a peewee league.
The women’s college basketball championship between the Louisiana State University Tigers and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes was a smashing success, introducing millions to the excitement (and terrible officiating) of the women’s game. Iowa’s incredible tournament run ultimately came to an end, with LSU winning 102-85. The Tigers secured the title and, less importantly, a trip to the White House.
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That is, until Jill Biden stepped in. The first lady, in an attempt to promote “sportsmanship,” said she would ask President Joe Biden to invite Iowa, the losers, to the White House along with LSU’s winning team. There, the players would presumably receive their orange slices and participation ribbons, because we’re all the real winners here.
That’s not true, of course. LSU was the real winner, as Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder and star player Caitlin Clark acknowledged in declining the hypothetical invitation. No one ever asked the losers in any men’s sport, whether it be college or professional basketball, football, baseball, or hockey, to join the winners at the White House. Women are allowed to lose, too — White House visits are for winners.
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Not these winners, though. LSU star Angel Reese has said the team won’t visit the White House after this slight. They aren’t interested in being treated as second-tier champions, no matter how many orange slices Jill Biden is offering.
It’s one final lesson that an incredible women’s college basketball season has provided. Women are allowed to lose and not be treated like they won, just as men’s teams have done for decades. And it wasn’t men who felt that women needed to be treated differently in sports — the patronizing sexism, in this case, was coming from inside the White House all along.