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

Thanks for the clarification and I'm glad you educated us! I was just quoting the twitter user I linked, because it was their link. I'm guessing that they were just trying to make the point that Bruce competed as a man in the decathlon, which was an all-male event, but would be California's first "woman" governor.

Bring it on, Bruce - run!

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

I hope you know it's not really to correct you that I make these annoying posts, it's for the record & the readers.

The issue of the decathlon vs women's long fight to get to be able to compete in lesser events at the Olympics like the pentathlon seems to be going down the memory hole. So few people nowadays seem to realize how long women were kept out of sporting competition, and how when we finally were let in women had to fight for each & every small step towards parity.

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

Don't worry. I was just noting that what I posted wasn't my own words.