Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 09, 2012

Like the Pledge of Allegiance ends: “justice for all.”

Holly reminds me of me at that age: if it made sense, I could get with it. Go Holly!

No pressure.

And when women are presidents and prime ministers perhaps there will be fewer wars. Well, we can always hope!

there was a war under Thatcher and one of the strongest economies around is germany under Merkel, I just hope it is strong enough to bail out the rest Europe which was put in the dumpster by U.S. banks led by men

but still no equal pay!!!!!!!!!!!

You would think equal pay would be next!

Yes, because before Title IX there were no women doctors, lawyers, athletes, etc. Good grief.

And signed into law by which Democrat President? Oh, it was Richard Nixon.

Hooray for Republican President Nixon for signing the Title 9 bill!

Boring, if it doesn’t stop soon I’ll drop the strip.

… and then there was Pelosi..(actually Title 9 was a good idea, but I couldn’t resist.)

Obviously a landmark law for women’s rights. Unfortunately like so many other well intended laws, it ended up hurting male athletes in the name of helping women. How many men’s gymnastics and swimming/diving teams were eliminated because of this law? My university resolves this issue by offering gymnastics, soccer and equestrian for women but not men to balance out the football team.

Shouldn’t that be “… on the basis of gender, ..” ?

I’ve been reading Stone Soup for years, but NO MORE! The LAST thing I need in the morning is another lecture from a liberal! NUTS! I refuse even to look at it anymore, and I KNOW others feel the same way. Why doesn’t Jan Eliot just write a liberal book instead? Lecture people who think they NEED her liberal non-wisdom rammed down their throats? She might even sell one or two.

Meanwhile, that’s NOT what “comics” are supposed to be all about.

Apparently the root of comics is not comedy like we all thought. It must have something to do with pushing ones agenda.

if there was a woman president she would probably be too old for that. He mothering instincts would make her reluctant to do any biig warw.

AS a conservative, I have to say Title IX makes sense. Like most other Civil Rights Laws that have been passed, the shame is that Americans had to make it law because personal achievement and abilities are often not just discouraged, but punished.@JoanHelen, Please look thoroughly at the records of Maragret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meier before putting too much hope in that.To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, ’War is, at its best, a necessary evil, at its worst, an intolerable one."

well said

That would depend on whether or not she had idiots to deal with in her administration.

Notice Title IX says “no person,” not “no female person.” Title IX applies to men as well. Didn’t somebody use Title IX about 30 years ago as part of a “if boys can’t play girls’ basketball, and the school has a girls’ basketball team, then girls can’t play boys’ basketball, as it denies a boy the opportunity to play” defense?

and “the right of the people to keep and bear arms…”

Europe is failing because they all want their governments to do everything for them.

Getting very political at the expense of humor. I think I will remove it from my rota.

…all men and women are created equal.

This is still work in progress. Women today don’t take their rights serious enough. They don’t know what their grandmothers, mothers and aunts fought for. It was a joke back then and related to “bra burning”. It’s better but not good enough!

So many lessons, so little time…

The whole point of this discussion is that a COMIC strip has no business preaching or even supposedly “teaching” us about the law. That’s not its function under any condition whatsoever — we read it for HUMOR, and/or for a STORY, not to hear the author beat her liberal drum. The person who writes the strip is desperately confused about what her job is. And she’s goig to lose a LOT of readers in the process of rediscovering what her strip is supposed to be all about. I for one will NOT be preached to in a comic strip, and I know I’m not alone! Let what’s-her-name (I’ve already forgotten) go on MSNBC and achieve false sainthood as a liberal AUTHOR of a liberal BOOK on how she thinks we’re all too stupid to obey the law without her ragging on us about it, and too dumb to know the difference between comedy and propaganda. Then see how well THAT book sells . . . even to other liberals. They are not ALL stupid!

You’re not alone in feeling that way.

In 1993, the University of Notre Dame used Title IX as an excuse to eliminate the wrestling program, using that money to fund Womens’ sports. The ND wrestling program had been funded by donations from a former wrestler’s father, after his wrestler son was gunned down in South Bend. They could have taken the money from the Football program instead, which is very well-endowed.

Some of these comments make me fear for my future as a female.