A grassroots football club has come under fire after voting to continue without its 'entire female section', leaving more than 100 women and girls without a team.
The committee of Teesside-based Thornaby FC made the controversial decision following an emergency meeting, later explaining that the day-to-day running of the club 'is in doubt' due to low staffing levels.
The women's section, writing on Facebook, said that the club's under 7s, 8s, 10s, 11s, 15s and women's teams would be lost.
This is the inevitable result of excess inclusivity. Women love to participate in social activities, and many of them enjoy telling other people what to do, but they also hate and fear responsibility. And there are few responsibilities more thankless than being a youth-team coach at the local level.
Notice that the problem is “low staffing levels” not resources. Translation: they don’t have any women volunteering to coach the club’s women’s teams.
Local sports is precisely where the Delta dads tend to shine. Show me a man who is involved with youth activities and you can be almost entirely certain that he is either a Delta or a predator. Fortunately, the former tend to vastly outnumber the latter. And coaching local sports teams is a great way for Deltas to begin to develop management and leadership skills in a relatively easy and conflict-free way.
Inclusivity is the death knell of any volunteer organization. Whether you look at Thornaby FC or the Boy Scouts of America, what were very successful organizations running smoothly for decades without any female or minority involvement began to die as soon as they attempted to become more inclusive.
If you run an organization, one of your primary focuses should always be to make things easier, more enjoyable, and more comfortable for the Deltas every organization requires to make it operate correctly. And one of your secondary focuses should be to provide resistance for the arguments to allow those who are never able to successfully start their own organizations to enter, because doing so will always degrade, if not outright destroy, the organization.
Best friend Delta coaches his son's under-9s soccer team. All he does is try to make the practices and games less stressful and more enjoyable for the kids. The stories he tells about the other parents make my head spin. Endless bitching and threats.
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