Some county fairs in Indiana have stopped having competitions that result in a fair queen and/or king being crowned. Go ahead, guess why:
Any fair activity involving competition between 4-H members must be open to both boys and girls, said Renee McKee, assistance director of the Purdue Extension office.
If a fair conducts a competition in which being a 4-H member is required in order to compete, the competition must be gender-neutral, she said. That's because federal law prohibits discrimination based on gender, and 4-H is a youth-serving organization that is federally authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That's right. You get anywhere within a hundred miles of federal money, and you have to play by federal rules. That means every little kid in the remotest rural village has to accept the same "any whiff of evil sexism will send us all straight to hell" nonsense pushed by the drooling New Age a-holes in Washington.
Oh, this is cute: At the St. Joseph County Fair, they've replaced the king and queen contests with one open to both boys and girls called the "4-H Achievement Ambassador competition." Sounds just like something the federal government would approve of wholeheartedly, doesn't it?
