Womyn fight for field feminism
By Chris Kerr
Sports Editor
January 27, 2010
 The Womyn’s Centre, located on the UWindsor campus, is a collective of women advocating the fundamental rights of women.
It is their mandate to educate others on issues surrounding women, and to promote and enhance the status of women.
The Centre seeks to educate the Windsor community on women’s physical conditions, and to ensure accessibility to all women, especially women who face intensive discrimination.
A further objective for the Womyn’s Centre is to eliminate myths, stereotypes, and ignorance about the Womyn’s Centre, thus increasing participation and bridging gaps in the community.
The next task for the Womyn’s Centre is taking on the football team in what seemed, at first, like a David and Goliath scenario.
The feminist collective, angered at the fact that there is only one football team and not a women’s team, decided to attend an open try out.
Going along with their mandate that attempts to destroy myths about women, the Womyn’s Centre decided to prove that women could hold a candle to the Lancers foot ball team, in truly what was in “anything you can do, I can do better” fashion.
The women stormed the field during the tryout and clearly “educated” the team.
The intelligence, mental toughness, and finesse of the women clashed with the brutishness of the veterans of the team.
Associate head coach Scott Fawcett resigned from his position with the Lancers out of sheer embarrassment. His coaching methods were seriously questioned by the Womyn.
Tryouts will continue in the summer.
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