For the most part, I parked myself at the Tallahassee Avenue Lifeguard station in front of the Plaza and Berkley Condominiums, a few blocks from Ventnor. The lifeguards were two females. I have misogynist tendencies, but I trusted female lifeguards to do a decent job of rescue in case I found myself in need of rescue while swimming in the surf.
On Monday afternoon August 16, at about 5:00 PM -- the lifeguards get off duty at 6:00 PM -- the two female lifeguards started a game of toss-the-pebble-in-the-lifeguard-boat with two young boys. I was surprised by their behavior. I didn't think it was appropriate behavior for lifeguards to play games with beachgoers. I thought they should have had their eyes on swimmers in the ocean at all times. The memory of that event lingered.
Yes, women make excellent federal judges, attorneys general, and secretaries of state -- but while I'm on the beach, I prefer to be watched over by male lifeguards. Is that so wrong?
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I believe that sexism is not the same as racism at a psychological level, and the law is wrong to equate the two.
Sometimes a boy needs his father; there is no situation, psychologically speaking, in which a white person needs a white person.
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