call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.
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Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.
Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?
Mongolian wrestling pulled the same stunt way back when. A woman beat the crap out of them so they changed the outfit to a chest-baring vest to ensure only men were participating.
Sports are segregated because there’s a substantial number of men who can’t face a woman being better than them at anything, and react to that internal conflict with violence. Women get treated as punching bags, and it gets worse when they’re good at the sport.
Hopefully at least baby steps are being made in the right direction
Yuko Fujii is the first woman to become head coach of the Brazilian men’s national judo team.
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