College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown:
This is the fifth women’s volleyball team whose players have chosen to forfeit against SJSU this season—all for the same reason—which is described in a media statement put out by members of the UNR squad:
“We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San José State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University. We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.”
The “injustice” at issue can be sourced to a single SJSU player—Blaire Fleming—who is at or near the top of the SJSU Spartans’ leader board in sets played, “kills” (winning offensive shots that are unreturnable by the opposing team), and blocks.
Fleming is of course a man playing women’s NCAA Division 1 college volleyball. I written previously about why this is unfair to other athletes—as if common sense alone weren’t sufficient to achieve an understanding.
But along with my gratitude toward the players and schools fighting to save women’s sports, let me add one more thing: This kind of crap is why the Democrats are losing a number of rural, blue collar voters. That matters because a lot of the swing states have a lot of rural voters.