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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Have you ever played a sport?
Female athletes are programmed to believe they cannot compete with men. One of the many reasons why they believe this is the fact that there are different leagues and sports for boys and girls and men and women. If you don't think that watching a woman compete against and beat 1/3 or 1/2 of the greatest male golfers in the world would be empowering* to female athletes and their supporters, then we have come to the point in the conversation where I have to conclude that you don't know shit about sports.
TM
*And you should watch the interviews of the men who played with Michelle Wie after she consistently beat the hell out of them off the tee.
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Given that I already preface my very few posts about sports with the disclaimer that I don't follow any of them, this is curiously antagonistic. We both vouch for your greater knowledge of sports, and the last organized league I played in was a shitty city rec softball league at my old firm -- but this seems like we're both just guessing about the psychological effects on 13 year old aspiring female athletes, and I do not concede your greater insight into that.
I suspect that some male-on-female competitions will always smack of gimmickry.
So I'm willing to let each sport decide whether to let women compete in the men's division. I just don't think it's a one-size-fits-all solution, because the impact on the women's division will be more or less dire depending on the nature of the sport. It makes no sense that Olympic shooting is not all open events, but it does make sense to me that biathlon is, and it doesn't seem like a must-be-corrected form of sexism for there to be a difference.
