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[–]Realwoman[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

He was also 50.

Are you implying women can beat men in sports? Should men and women compete with each other?

Women that can beat some men are outliers. That's not dismissing them anymore than calling math prodigies outliers is dismissing math prodigies.

Women are not as strong as men and should not have to compete with men. Also, women need protection from men because men are stronger. Denying this basic fact is denying women's rights.

[–]chrysthefeminist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't put words into my mouth. I am responding to your assertion that no woman can ever beat any man, and that if she does she's an "outlier." That there is no overlap at all in strength between men and women, just two entirely mutually exclusive "strength" classes, based on sex. I think that the accomplishments of the outliers point as much to the unfulfilled and unrecognized potential of many women as they do to the talents and skills of the outliers themselves. I think women on average are not as strong as men and as such we have every right to our own sports competitions without them. We also have a right to them for purposes of setting our own boundaries.

As to "protection from men", brings to mind the old protection racket (women need men to protect them from men.) I think women need protection from the protection racket, and are perfectly capable of devising our own means of protection.

[–]Realwoman[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There is the occasional woman that is stronger than the occasional man. The same way that there is the occasional woman that's taller than the occasional man. The vast, vast majority of the men can easily overpower and rape the vast, vast majority of women.

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

the occasional woman that's taller than the occasional man.

Yeah, compare Finns with southern Italians and see how "occasional" it is for women to be taller than men.

I think there's a lot of undeveloped and unrecognized female potential and I simply don't agree with you that the situation is set in stone for all time. I think that any further "dialog" between us on the subject is likely to be unproductive and I am also very bored with your views, so let's just agree to disagree and leave it at that.