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The Midnight said:
(eYeah but the abnormally high level of testosterone isn’t fair to the other ladies.
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You didn't read the article that I recommended (but you responded to nonetheless), did you?

If you had, you'd know that there hasn't been any accusations about testosterone being thrown around (except by maybe the right-wing culture warriors).
 
I mean I get why people think that born men shouldn't be able to transition and compete against women.
The advantage that men have over women athletically is different than the advantage that being tall or whatever gives.

For example, in the nba there are very tall players like gobert and wemby. But there are also very short players as well. There are dudes with long arms and short arms. There are dudes who can jump really high and there are Joe Ingles. What there isn't are any women. Why? It's not because women aren't allowed in the NBA. If a woman was good enough to play in the NBA then she would be in the NBA. There just aren't any women in the entire world that are good enough to play in the NBA. Same with the top leagues in soccer, football, rugby, tennis, golf, etc. those sports aren't trying to keep women from playing with the men. They want the best athletes at those sports regardless of sex. They just want to win. Women just aren't able to compete against men in any of those sports. The fastest women time in the 100 meters in history would probably not be in the top 50 of fastest men's time.
The farthest drive that a woman ever hit in golf wouldn't mean anything compared with the men's longest drives. Serena Williams most powerful serve she ever hit would not be anywhere close to Nadal, Djokovic, etc. Same thing with discus, weightlifting, long distance running, long jump, swimming etc.
That is why we separate men's and women's sports.
It is what it is.

But in this instance (the Olympic women's boxing) I don't see an issue.

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HermanG said:
My take is that the goal of your take was just to light the board on fire after the super polarizing discussion had already died.
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You realize you’ve quoted a poster with over a decade of troll-baiting troll behavior, right?

It’s incredible that this board continues to be a flammable place for him.
 
Womens archery final is on, and the contestants are called Nam Suhyeon and Lim Sihyeon.

The crowd in Paris has to have difficulties deciding who to root for.
 
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NAOS_pt2 said:
You realize you’ve quoted a poster with over a decade of troll-baiting troll behavior, right?

It’s incredible that this board continues to be a flammable place for him.
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I do. Just wanted to point it out so that those who bit on it wouldnt do so next time.
 
fishonjazz said:
I mean I get why people think that born men shouldn't be able to transition and compete against women.
The advantage that men have over women athletically is different than the advantage that being tall or whatever gives.

For example, in the nba there are very tall players like gobert and wemby. But there are also very short players as well. There are dudes with long arms and short arms. There are dudes who can jump really high and there are Joe Ingles. What there isn't are any women. Why? It's not because women aren't allowed in the NBA. If a woman was good enough to play in the NBA then she would be in the NBA. There just aren't any women in the entire world that are good enough to play in the NBA. Same with the top leagues in soccer, football, rugby, tennis, golf, etc. those sports aren't trying to keep women from playing with the men. They want the best athletes at those sports regardless of sex. They just want to win. Women just aren't able to compete against men in any of those sports. The fastest women time in the 100 meters in history would probably not be in the top 50 of fastest men's time.
The farthest drive that a woman ever hit in golf wouldn't mean anything compared with the men's longest drives. Serena Williams most powerful serve she ever hit would not be anywhere close to Nadal, Djokovic, etc. Same thing with discus, weightlifting, long distance running, long jump, swimming etc.
That is why we separate men's and women's sports.
It is what it is.

But in this instance (the Olympic women's boxing) I don't see an issue.

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You make an extraordinary number of claims without evidence in such a short post. It’s enough to make a reasonable reader suspicious that you’re just relaying talking points.

The easiest claim to falsify is Serena Williams’ speed in her serve. I encourage you to actually look it up (look at it vs the champions in the men’s’ tournaments, but also look at it versus tour averages). You’re also going to find some similar things when you actually look into driving distances in professional golf: the longest hitters on the women’s tour are well within range of the men’s tour averages.
 
Marathon records:

The current world record time for men over the distance is 2 hours and 35 seconds, set in the Chicago Marathon by the late Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya on 8 October 2023. The world record for women was set by Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia in the Berlin Marathon on 24 September 2023, in 2 hours 11 minutes and 53 seconds.

^clearly universes apart. “Means nothing compared to…”
 
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