Most of us have historical and social contexts that help explain how
well we have done with our own individual talents, and that probably
includes Amber. Those contexts are responsible for the anger on both
sides of the land disputes currently going on in Zimbabwe; and they
certainly inform the debate over Title IX. The notion that women are
equal is really very recent; and it is also very limited--women still
own only 1 percent of the world's land, a fact in relationship to which
we each are positioned. And it is precisely because this notion is so
recent and so regional that men/boys are likely to view anything less
than 100 percent as less than their due. The law sometimes goes out
ahead of the population and the social change its welfare requires, and
sometimes it lags. Title IX lags, both in conception and enforcement;
but it is the best law we have so far. What it needs is to be placed in
the form of a constitutional amendment assuring much stronger courtroom
support. To focus on the OCR's regulations is trivializing the social
enormity of the need, in any case.
Linda Purrington
Title IX Advocates
lpurring@earthlinknet
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