# Women can't ref. (RO) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555 "2008-02-14T03:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/1 "2008-02-14T03:57:22Z")
[Link.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330642,00.html) For some reason, women can’t referee boy’s basketball, according to these loons. There’s a reason your leader was excommunicated, fuckwits. Just when I start to think that we are more “enlightened” than other countries I could name… ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/2 "2008-02-14T04:02:00Z")
I like the way the other refs, the ones with the proper sets of chromosomes ( " :rolleyes: "), backed her up 100% and refused to officiate themselves. If I’m reading the article right, the school was left without anyone to officiate their game? If so, then there is a God. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/3 "2008-02-14T04:09:52Z")
Are they kidding? [Cathy Lee Crosby](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077351/) jump-started my puberty. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/4 "2008-02-14T04:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] If I’m reading the article right, the school was left without anyone to officiate their game? If so, then there is a God. 😃 [/QUOTE] Your faith is in trouble, then, because another referee and the school’s athletic director [did the deed](http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/487355.html): > [@Kansas City Star](#): > > Shockey and others said the game was played after a referee from an earlier game and the school’s athletic director agreed to officiate. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/5 "2008-02-14T15:35:16Z")
It happened in Kansas. Why am I not surprised. It is the land of Wacked out Nutjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/6 "2008-02-14T15:56:04Z")
I’m glad that instead of trying to fight the issue with a “we demand the right to ref at your school” they gave them the ol’ :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: and walked away with a “have a nice time trying to find someone to officiate your games you loons.” (So can we assume this school has no female faculty members?) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/7 "2008-02-14T16:49:03Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] (So can we assume this school has no female faculty members?) [/QUOTE] Nope. According to the KC Star, they have some female faculty who actually teach boys! :eek: Loons, the lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/8 "2008-02-14T17:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Nope. According to the KC Star, they have some female faculty who actually teach boys! :eek: Loons, the lot of them. [/QUOTE] That must be a nice job. “You can teach them but don’t you dare try to tell them what to do.” ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/9 "2008-02-14T19:17:27Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Nope. According to the KC Star, they have some female faculty who actually teach boys! :eek: [/QUOTE] Yeah, that was a little confusing. I wondered if that meant in the lower grades and by the time the boys hit high school levels the school considers them too old to submit to female authority. I also wondered what that means for their mothers. Tell a sixteen year old boy that he can’t be under female authority? Most kids that age have a little problem with that anyway. Any authority, especially mom. These kids are going to have a real problem when they get out into the work force. I always thought that passage was in reference to religious matters. Of course, I always thought it was usually misinterpreted. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/10 "2008-02-14T21:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] It happened in Kansas. Why am I not surprised. It is the land of Wacked out Nutjobs. [/QUOTE] Paint with a broad brush much? _Asked by a resident of Kansas._ ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/11 "2008-02-14T21:10:31Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Paint with a broad brush much? _Asked by a resident of Kansas._ [/QUOTE] Meh, us Californians have been marked as the nuts of the US for a long time. Stand up and take your turn! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/12 "2008-02-14T21:41:21Z")
My wife’s a former basketball ref. She stopped doing high school boys on a regular basis because she’s short and wasn’t fast enough to keep up. I’ve emailed the story to her, but my guess is that she would have marked the offending home team as having forfeited the game. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/13 "2008-02-14T21:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Paint with a broad brush much? _Asked by a resident of Kansas._ [/QUOTE] Well, Phred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” are in Kansas! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/14 "2008-02-14T21:48:21Z")
You guys are missing the big picture: > [@](#): > > The society’s world leader, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre… How the fuck do you pronounce _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/15 "2008-02-14T21:51:00Z")
It’s a French name, right? IIRC, drop the “b” and pronounce it like it’s French. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/16 "2008-02-14T22:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] Well, Phred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” are in Kansas! 😃 [/QUOTE] I should know, I’ve counterpicketed against him many a time here in Topeka. And they show up with regularity on the other side of the street from the church I attend. But Phred is originally from Missisippi, came to Kansas in 1955 or there abouts. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/17 "2008-02-14T22:25:31Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] My wife’s a former basketball ref. She stopped doing high school boys on a regular basis because she’s short and wasn’t fast enough to keep up. [/QUOTE] Did she stop doing high school boys before or after you two were married? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/18 "2008-02-14T22:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Did she stop doing high school boys before or after you two were married? 🙂 [/QUOTE] She stopped when I graduated. 😉 (“We,” actually) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/19 "2008-02-15T01:00:44Z")
Am I the only one that saw the thread title and immediately thought “Violet Palmer”? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555/20 "2008-02-15T03:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Meh, us Californians have been marked as the nuts of the US for a long time. Stand up and take your turn! [/QUOTE] Yeah, really. How would you have liked being from Long Island right at the time of the Long Island Lolita, Colin Ferguson shooting up the LIRR, and I don’t know what else? Between this stuff and those idiots on _Jericho_…all eyes are on **YOU** for a change!! 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-cant-ref-ro/437555.md?page=2)