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Thanks, the entire thread makes more sense! I want to avoid sounding any more opinionated about sports medicine than I already do, since it's not a subject in w

Thanks, the entire thread makes more sense! I want to avoid sounding any more opinionated about sports medicine than I already do, since it's not a subject in which I have any expertise. That said, when I consider that a 'mens' category alone includes both Andre The Giant and Peter Dinklage, it's hard for me to understand how a richer mix of physical attributes could do any worse :)

raffraffraff 5y ago
Well, you're not picking people at either end of a normal size scale. You're picking people with gigantism and dwarfism. But let's take Andre as an example: what sports Andre would truly excel at? He made a name in wrestling, but his gigantism was as much a cause of health problems as an "edge" in sport. And if size was the deciding factor, then why wasn't the largest woman with gigantism (Tanya Angus, 7 feet 7 inches and weighed 400lbs) beating the shit out of wrestlers like The Undertaker (6 feet 10, 309lbs)? Because size isn't all. Edit: now I'm taking weight! Ross Tucker made a point about safety, but also about fairness, about which he said (paraphrasing) that females would disappear completely from mixed sex sports, even with weight categories. His point about "fairness" categories is more like "how would that even work?"