quantumlover4d ago

Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy

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Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy - Lemmy.zip

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Show threadZozano4d ago

I’m of two minds about this:

First, let people compete in comparative tier skill events. We have different weight classes for boxing, why should other sports be any different?

Second, who fucking cares? Sports are literally just physical games which have become the victim of capitalism, and the Olympics added nationalism and implicit racial perspectives.

You will never see a Japanese woman winning the 100m sprint. Should we have another category for Asian sprinters? Maybe? But at some point you need to realise:

NONE OF THIS SHIT MATTERS.

Most of these athletes are doing drugs anyway lol.

Show threadryathal3d ago
Women’s sports exist because they can’t actually compete against men. The division is inherently and explicitly exclusionary. They were created to give 50% of the population a chance to compete on as fair of a stage as possible.
Show threadFurbag
Women’s sports exist because men wouldn’t allow them to even play competitive sports, period. Women’s leagues were created as a conciliatory gesture from misogynists, not out of some sense chivalrous duty to uphold fairness and equality.
Mar 27 at 7:42pmWeb
Show threadkrisevol3d ago
There isn’t men sports. There are sports, and women sports. The league men play in allow both genders.
Show threadhitmyspot3d ago

Lol, no they don’t. Some do, but many don’t.

For games like golf, up until relatively recently, women weren’t even allowed to be club members.

Let’s not rewrite history.

Show threadFurbag3d ago
That’s how it works today, but historically that has not been the case. Women even being allowed to play sports is less far removed from the present day than you might imagine.
Show threadryathal3d ago
That’s an interesting take when there’s generally no rules preventing women from competing in professional men’s leagues.
Show threadFurbag3d ago
There are no rules against it today. Go back in time 100 years and you have a culture of women being excluded from sports in general in favor of them learning “women’s work” or being homemakers. The 14th amendment was the catalyst that allowed women to begin participating in competitive sports as more than just a passtime or a hobby.