TRANSGENDERRemember the injured female highschool volleyball player? The man who caused the injury is using it to promote himself.

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[–]jacques1102 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Even if that's the case then what exactly is the point of separating the sports by sex then?If we all get spiked to the head then there's no reason to separate the sexes then.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Men can and do get injured playing sports with other men, that's just part of the territory. If women want to play on a mixed team or even on the men's team , more power to them if they can hold their own. But they're taking on the risk of injury and need to be aware of that.

There really aren't strictly gender segregated sports. Most "men's sports" are technically open divisions where any women who can qualify may play if they wish. Nothing wrong with that. What we do have are handicap leagues, same as we have leagues for people in wheelchairs or leagues for retarded kids, so they can play against other people who have the same disability and the game is fair, so we have lots of leagues for the most common sports handicap of all, being female. And feminists may not like this framing but it's absolutely true, when it comes to sports, physical strength, being female is a handicap. Perhaps like any handicap it can be overcome with great perseverance and dedication and more power to those people, but you've still got it way harder than anyone who doesn't have that handicap. It's unfair for someone who can hear to play on a team for deaf people. It's unfair for a male to play on a team for females.

If a deaf person wants to play on a team for people who can hear and they are capable despite their handicap, more power to them so long as it's reasonably safe and they are aware of the risks. Same for females who want to play with the males. If you can hit home runs like Babe Ruth you'll have your choice of MLB contracts, but realistically, the statistical likelihood of a woman being able to compete at the high level with the top class of men is so small that it might as well be zero.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Depends on the sport. In ultra endurance fields a lot of the records are set by women by incredibly wide margins against the former men's records.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm certain you'll find certain sports where females have an innate statistical advantage. Ultra endurance might be one. Think gymnastics is another one. It's usually when we are talking about raw physical strength where there is a clear male advantage, but for most sports raw physical strength is such an important aspect that if you are lacking at it no amount of skill can close the gap.

Of course gender gaps also pop up in games like chess which is funny. Personally I suspect that men are "smarter" than women as whole in the sense that, they're better at chess, women probably are more sensible than spending inordinate amounts of time to get good at a game that won't benefit them in any way besides simply "to win". So really who is more intelligent?

I suspect women are largely at a disadvantage due to the lack of the penis. Since men do at least half of their thinking with it, it stands to reason that women lack the penile intelligence necessary to understand the complex balance between the male supercomputer of combined powers of penis, stomach and brain working together in glorious discord.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Iirc men tend to be at more extremes of the bell curve for intelligence than women. So you get more geniuses (and also more idiots) whereas women tend to be more in the middle of it. That could explain some of it if there's like 100 men and 100 women and the mens 5 geniuses would outnumber the womens 1.

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

I don't think women actually do have advantage in gymnastics with the exception of bounce moves, that involve open leg bounces, where the crotch hits the floor and rebounds (I think for obvious reasons). Or certain moves where extreme higher end flexibility is involved. But a lot of gymnastic elements and even entire disciplines, are based off leg and upper body strength, so there are numerous gymnastic elements/fields that males are innately better at. I do gymnastics/acrobatics at an amateur level, so I see it in action all the time.

As for the smartness of spending a lot of time working hard to get good at a 'sport' for no real reason, well it's extremely fucking pleasurable. My mental health has never been better. My mental health has actually pretty much always been fine and I'm someone who finds regular contentment even when everything is shit. But with constant exercise and physical goals I'm nearly always happy. No matter what else is going on, my main emotion is a steady happiness with regular bouts of elation. I'm pretty sure humans are meant to be very physical and in a world where it's easy to be sedentary, sport of some sort is probably essential to most people.

(I also get to see some extreme cognitive dissonance in action as everyone I know in the online gymnastics community agrees that giving young gymnastics girls Lupron to delay their puberty will fuck up their long-term health. While a lot of the same people 'support trans-kids' and campaign against any legislation that might limiting access to Lupron for those kids.)