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[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah, I was a huge sports kid. Baseball, basketball, soccer, even football although they didn't let girls on the town team. I still played football with my friends. I started early, too. I was in pretty much every organized sport I could find by first grade.

[–]112223sps 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You sound the same as me! I played every sport that was available and loved it. We had a flag football team in our city and I was the only girl in the whole league.. Lol it was awesome. I think socialization and not being encouraged in sports plays more of a role in this discussion than OP thinks. I literally never felt inferior to the boys before puberty.

[–]Realwoman[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Socialization doesn't have that much of an effect, no studies have shown that strength has anything to do with socialization. Some girls are naturally stronger, but most girls Rae not and the strongest girls are still not aas strong as the strongest boys.

[–]112223sps 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So you really don't think being encouraged and pushed into sports, and most importantly practicing and being more physical, doesn't benefit boys when it comes to strength? I remember the other girls saying, and I quote, 'being good at sports is gay'. They purposely acted stupid and bad because they thought that's how girls were supposed to be. They already had this attitude at a very young age. Thats literally socialization. I don't doubt that girls are weaker on average, I just think it has a lot more to do with them never practicing those skills rather than being naturally bad.

[–]Realwoman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess I grew up very differently because I saw none of that. And my brother was not into sports much (only watching them on TV), he was more about reading. The pressure on girls to do sports was more or less equal, especially when it came to track and field.