Bathroom and sports gender segregation should be abolished

https://lemmy.ml/post/45118929

Bathroom and sports gender segregation should be abolished - Lemmy

I’ve never understood why bathrooms or sports are segregated by gender. Makes absolutely no sense to me and I’ll go to my dying day believing it’s nonsense.

For team sports, segregation would happen regardless. The vast majority of women just can’t keep up with men, and the team would need to choose men over women to be competitive, leaving women to play with themselves.

For individual sports like running, etc. women would almost never appear on the podium, unless you introduce classes, in which case, you might as well just segregate them.

Bathrooms and locker rooms do not need to be segregated by law, but I suspect most women would choose segregated given the choice.

Gender segregated sports aren’t segregated so women get to play. Sure, a lot of girls benefit from this segregation, but it’s not the reason.

High-skill men, unskilled men, high-skill women, mid-skill women, and unskilled women have historically been kinda fine in letting men and women compete in an equal footing. For man-centric things this means most winners and competitors will be men, but the inverse happens for woman-centric things and nobody really complains.

But mid-skill men doing a man-centric thing absolutely lose it when they lose to high-skill women. Which doesn’t happen a lot, but they lose it loudly enough when it does happen that for anything as trivial as sport it’s easier to just segregate so we can protect the fragile egos of mid-skill men who just can’t handle losing to a woman.

Lol some men can be so… What’s the word I’m looking for? Fragile hits the spot