umlaut.bsky.social
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Highly boopable snoot
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What’s the basis for that claim?
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Yeah the CDC is… having troubles.
But anyway, the graph doesn’t actually support the claim that women cannot train to the same level as men.
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I’m interested in the source of your graph. Does it take into account training or is that just an assumption?
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They lost in 1998. Venus and Serena Williams were 18 and 17, respectively at the time and had been playing professionally for 3 or 4 years. Karsten Braasch was 31 and had been playing professionally since 1987.
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Can you think of no differences between men’s and women’s experiences other than “inherent biological differences”? No differences in how women’s sports are viewed and funded? How women athletes are treated? Nothing?
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Point 3 is that inherent-to-all-men-and-no-women trait X is the cause of the difference in athletic performance.
I agree with the observable fact that men as a group currently outperform women as a group in many sports; I don’t agree that it’s due to X.
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🤞🤞🤞
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The argument seems to be
1. Men share inherent trait X
2. X doesn’t exist—or exists at a totally different level—in women
3. X means men always beat women
4. Only men winning is bad
5. Segregating sports by gender is the best way to avoid that
I think all points except 4 are wrong.
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How sure are you that testosterone is the cause of the difference? And if it is, why not segregate based on testosterone level?
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There’s a lot to discuss about the purpose of sports and why there are performance differences between men and women. I don’t think it’s as clear -cut as you seem to.
More to the point, my position is that instead of gender we should be segregate sports by pertinent categories like weight class.
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Exactly. I’ve never seen a compelling reason for segregating *any* sport by gender.
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I feel like studies on athletic performance differences are a red herring. If society insists on segregating sports by gender, trans women go in the women’s sports category.
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You’re so right. Get his ass.
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Ooh that’s a new term for me. The one I’ve heard is compersion. How delightful that there are many words for it 💙
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The proposed name is “Natural Family Month” and it would overlap Pride Month. Joy.
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Yes
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Boo! Hit them with sticks.
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I think Amia Srinivasan had the most concise summary in her book The Right To Sex when she said sex is just gender in diguise, because when sex is evoked in political discourse it is only to insist that one sex exists for the care and comfort and freedoms of the other.
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I cannot tell you why but here's photographic evidence.