InterGender Sports

djchameleon · 10-17-2016, 05:21 AM

So are you saying that there aren't any female players that have the skill and talent to compete in popular male sports? Sounds a bit sexist imo.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-17-2016, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

So are you saying that there aren't any female players that have the skill and talent to compete in popular male sports? Sounds a bit sexist imo.

Yes.

djchameleon · 10-17-2016, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

No. I'm saying that it's a fact that women are naturally smaller than men, and when you look at professional sports it's very hard to be small and successful in your sport. By starting intergender sports not only would you diminish the already dwindling number of supporters for women's sports, as they would move on to watching what is currently "men's" sports, but you're also taking away the opportunity for thousands of females who just wouldn't be able to make it in the pros. Here's a chart of average sizes from the UK http://www.arts.ac.uk/media/arts/res...sults-Full.pdf, and if you don't think size matters in sports then you just aren't watching closely enough.

There are plenty of small and successful male athletes in any given sport especially basketball so size doesn't really matter in b ball as long as you have the skill/talent to match. Adding women to male dominated sports won't take away from all the women players in their league. Especially when as you say they don't have the skill level to compete with men because of their size. There are some women that are larger and can match men point for point.

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

You know nothing about soccer.

I am convinced this is a wind up. You are not this stupid.

Yes I don't follow football as much as you do but I do know a few things. Women's US team gets paid far less and has had more victories and championships under their belt. While the Men's team gets paid more while sucking ass. Every world cup they are in they end up getting eliminated quickly. Same goes for Olympics but they do have an awesome ass goalie. Too bad he doesn't have a strong team to back him up.

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

I am actually for intergender sports. It will put a stop to the silly idea that women can compete with men athletically. Nobody can complain either because it's completely egalitarian.

You just want it so that it can fail like you think it will. If they have the same level or skill/talent. Why can't there be a female version of Lebron.

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I wonder which sport it would matter least in. Golf? Tennis? Baseball?

Physical size would matter less in most team sports and all of the ones tha you listed.
The only sport where physical size would truly matter would be something like Olympic Wrestling. Any sport/competition where there is a one on one test of strength possibly but on the other hand there are female body builders that would be able to toss some wrestlers