I believe in equality, without qualification. Equality is; however, a malleable thing, and difficult to define. When applied correctly human equality raises society as a whole. It is a key for the chains around those individuals and groups which are artificially held back. The malleability of equality allows it to be applied easily and liberally, perhaps its most powerful attribute. Unfortunately it is this same malleability which allows “equality” to be dangerously misapplied, misused, and — in a terrible demonstration of irony — act as a lock instead of a key. Title IX of 1972 too often falls into this category. While written and originally executed in good faith, it has since become a magnet for those wishing to impose their own twisted version of equality onto the American education system. Equality does not require that there are an equal number of male and female students enrolled in a school. Equality does not require the abolishment of a male soccer team because there is no interest in forming a female soccer team. Equality does not require an equal number of male and female electrical engineering professors. And, finally, equality does not require an equal number of male and female computer science students. Put simply, honoring equality requires offering equal opportunity within the bounds of equal expectation. For equality — when applied without bound nor mind — is its own antithesis, and results not in freedom, but in tyranny and oppression.
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