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> few proposals from feminists This is ludicrous. Womens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often. Women have been explicitly b
by jordanpg 12y ago
> few proposals from feminists
This is ludicrous. Womens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often. Women have been explicitly banned from almost all sports that are associated with men only for most of their existence. There have always been women who wanted to play. This is slowly, slowly changing, as activists continue to fight for it, tooth and nail. Their gains are quickly assimilated and forgotten.
It is not the case that sports would need to change. This is an old canard. Remember, all normal distributions have tails and pro-athletes, whatever their sex, are in those tails. Up until recently, women couldn't ski in the Olympic long jump because it was believe it would damage their reproductive systems. Wonder who was writing the rules?
http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive-rights-and-athletics-the-curious-tale-of-female-ski-jumpers/ http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive...
- jessaustin 12y agoWomens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often. Really? Who has said that our society would be better off if the NFL or NBA were replaced by some other league that offered any opportunity whatsoever for women to compete at the highest level? There have always been women who wanted to play. Of course! I certainly didn't intend to imply otherwise. In fact I've spent much of my time playing and watching stuff like the horse sports and kendo, which in all important respects women play just as well as men. I've also heard this about distance swimming. Perhaps ski jumping is another such sport? I don't know it well enough to say, but if it is, or if it can be made so, I'd say that it will be better for our culture to have more of it.