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This little news item came to my attention a few days ago.

It seems that a girl[*] made it into her high school's football program.  I
believe she played fullback, although I'm not sure.  During a game, she got
hit and seriously injured; subsequent surgery was necessary to remove her
spleen and a kidney.

She is now suing the school district for megabucks on the grounds that the
school's athletic program failed to disclose to her that football is a sport
in which you can get seriously injured.

The Sun had a withering editorial on the subject, on how this girl's
selfishness turned an advance towards sexual equality into a huge setback.

I wonder, with the current push to get homosexuals into the military and to
get women into combat duty, if we will see similar lawsuits about failure to
disclose that combat is an activity in which you can get seriously injured,
maimed for life, or killed?

[*] Obligatory Political Correctness note: most female high school students
are under the legal age of adulthood, and it is doubtful that an adult student
would have been permitted to participate in a youth sports program.  Also, her
behavior in filing the lawsuit is childish.  ``Woman'' seems inapprorpiate.