sports

  • Are Sports Sexist?

    Last week Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban invited Brittney Griner, the 6’9’’ women’s college basketball sports revolutionary, to try out for a spot on his NBA team this summer.  Cuban’s comments electrified the sports world.  Some fans tweeted… Continue reading

  • Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?

    In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading

  • Just Hoops: Thoughts on Gender and Basketball

    I’ve often wondered whether the wood of the basketball court as much as that of the church pew became the springboard for my incipient feminist consciousness. Long before theology there were sports, especially basketball. As we know, a predilection for… Continue reading