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whenever I mention frankenstein to someone they do a little laugh and I say "oh you haven't read it" and invariably they say "no." I'm so sorry mary shelley that they took your fascinating horror about anger towards an uncaring creator and made it into a joke. we need to remedy this. everyone read frankenstein please. it's free online

#happened three times lately!!!

why am I fighting about this. I'm just mad about the world today bc I read a lot of feminist books in the last few weeks and I'm PMSing

Go to a ju jitsu gym. Watch 5'5" men grapple with 5'5" women. There is absolutely no comparison.

There is heavy height overlap between the fastest male and female marathoners (most under 5'8" with a few outliers in both directions). They run the same course on the same day (sometimes even from the same start). The fastest men are all still 10-15 min faster than the fastest women.

Height is not the main problem. Anyone who has competed seriously in any sport knows this.

oh no my magical way of fixing all sports by splitting them up by height doesn't magically make all women equally good as all men at all sports? that's so crazy I'm shocked. wait a minute, have you ever considered that hormone differences would affect muscle density or flexibility and would make different people better or worse at different sports but that there is high variation in those things across all people? and that way fewer women participate in sports in general, especially more "masculine" sports, so the pool of athletes is much smaller, and therefore there are less likely to be outliers who would be very good? plus women are conditioned from a young age to be weak and not eat enough food to support muscle growth? nooooooo it can't be any of that. it's bc men good at all sports and women bad at all sports

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all sports should be co ed, they should just be divided by height instead. every single man/woman delineation in sports should instead become height-based. this will solve every problem in our society

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actually, height is only one relevant sex difference that contributes to athletic performance! given the totality of differences between men and women, sex-based sports are the only way to ensure safety and fairness at the highest, most competitive levels. if you’re interested in learning more, i recommend this resource: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37772882/

Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by

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get your terfy gender-essentialism off my post thanks!!!!! you have never considered the origin of most sports to value men's strengths or the social conditioning of women to be weak from birth. prepubescent children are the same physically and yet you will find differences in sport performance at those ages as well -- why is that? the role of social conditioning is never addressed by these stupid ass arguments. different sports should value different strengths and if we had more variation in sports and more participation and Value!!! given to sports for girls, you would see different outcomes at professional levels

Edit (I'm not reblogging I'm not continuing this argument): I have read the article. It is primarily looking at the impact of hormones on performance in specifically sports based in strength or endurance. They find minimal difference in skill-based sports. They also found that the sex-based differences in sports have been exaggerated due to under-participation of women. They make some interesting points about a great need to study women while studying sport performance. This being used to argue that trans women shouldn't be able to compete in sports is nefarious but even more so it supports my belief that the gender separation of sports was under the guise of protecting "weak" women and does not help us. Women were previously banned from competing in the Olympics altogether and then were only permitted to do the "women" version of sports. It's infantilizing and not based in science. I don't want to argue about trans women competing in women's sports, my whole argument is no more different gender sports

#but it doesn't take a genius to link an article with a title like that published in 2023 to anti-trans terf rhetoric

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all sports should be co ed, they should just be divided by height instead. every single man/woman delineation in sports should instead become height-based. this will solve every problem in our society

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also american football should be either turned into flag football or banned altogether. on account of the concussions. when you say that, people think of professional teams, but youth football has the majority of players and also the majority of injuries. why are we giving children concussions?

all sports should be co ed, they should just be divided by height instead. every single man/woman delineation in sports should instead become height-based. this will solve every problem in our society

transfemininomenon

the phrase really should be "eat your cake and have it too" im with the unabomber on this one

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I’m starting to think some of y’all haven’t actually felt the rain on your skin… which is crazy because no one else can feel it for you

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this ask scared me I thought I posted a photo of myself in my sleep somehow