Affirmative Action - pulling down standards

I get quite upset when I read about possible changes to affirmative action in the US, something I wrote about quite a while back. The news is still writing about same case, of a Texan white girl who got rejected from university and the case is now in the Supreme court, and may topple affirmative action in practice. The main argument does not appear to be that of "equal treatment", but lowering of standards. Second comes, oh how empathetic, that minorities this way dont have to drop out of programs with too high standards, which they wouldnt have qualified for in the first case. Now exchange minorities for women, and use these same arguments, and this is reality without affirmative action and quotas. Women lower standards. Women wouldn't make it in the harsh male world (of business, politics, choose your field). Women take up space of more qualified men. Sometimes, these things make me so a-n-g-r-y!