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  • wild calling us liberals when your entire argument relies on the word “average”.

    No it doesn’t. Do you consider the womens fastest runner “average” because men break that record upwards of 15000 times a year?

    Again, is Phelps at an unfair advantage because he has a long torso and long arms which give him a more powerful stroke?

    Cringe, groping at straws to justify a massive evolutionary advantage in men so I’ll just repeat what I already typed.

    A comparable female athlete would have 65% less strength in her legs and 90% less strength in her arms

    abolish categories. And yes cis men will be at the top. But that is the only way you can be truly fair.

    Lmao imagine calling yourself a communist and typing this out. You might want to reread some of the stats I provided. This would be the end of womens sports. Another real life example which you can go ahead and ignore and erase women from existing because “actually womanhood is a universal category anyone, especially men, can join”:

    In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams threw down a challenge: that either of them could beat any male tennis player ranked 200th or below. Karsten Braasch, then ranked 203rd, took them up on it. He prepared with ‘a leisurely round of golf in the morning followed by a couple of shandies’, he wrote afterwards. He beat Serena in a single set 6–1, and then Venus 6–2. In 2020, when Andy Murray suggested an exhibition match against her, Serena refused, saying: ‘I would lose 6–0, 6–0 in five to six minutes, maybe ten minutes . . . the men are a lot faster and they serve harder; they hit harder. It’s just a different game.’

    You talk about flyweight and heavyweight categories as if they’re law when every athlete at any level starves and dehydrates themselves before the weigh-in, then binges after it to get into a lighter category.

    TIL that modifying you weight slightly before a weigh in is the same as a heavy weight boxer fighting a fly weight. Lets abolish those categories too. The flys should fight heavys

    The only solution to the “problem” you present is to abolish categories

    Lmao you came out and said it. Lets have able bodied people in the paraolympics, abolish age categorys for different sports

    Wonderful. No girl would ever take up sport again if that were the case. Sports would be utterly dominated by men. a 203rd ranked Tennis player can thrash 2 of the top womens tennis players.

    Instead of 2 icons from my childhood they’d probably be ranked number 260/261 behind 259 men

    Why would any girl or woman ever take up sports again?


  • Load of IdPol drivel as usual for lemmygrad liberals with no scientific investigation

    If what Phelps is saying is so unreasonable why do we even separate heavy weights from fly weights, able bodied people from the paraolympics?

    In fact why even separate womens sports from mens at all?

    As women pass into adulthood their entire body changes. Long and hard pregnancies mean womens bodies evolved to store more fat.

    For an adult female at the height of their atheltic career their body contains 10% percent fat

    For an elite athletic male that figure is around 5%

    When humans evolved into an upright gait this gave many evolutionary advantages (planning/carrying weapons and tools) but the price that was paid was on the female pelvis.

    The preparation of the pelvis for childbirth in women means that women have less stable hips and their gait is less efficient. Wider hips also compromise carrying and throwing and the greater flexibility in womens tendons (for childbirth) means less energy can be stored in them.

    In men they are not only taller and larger than women, but have wider shoulders and narrower hips, bigger muscles that can contract more quickly and powerfully, bigger hearts and lungs, higher blood-oxygenation capacity and stronger bones.

    The average adult man has 41 percent more non-fat body mass (blood, bones, muscles and so on) than the average woman, 50 percent more muscle mass in his legs and 75 percent more in his arms. His legs are 65 percent stronger, and his upper body is 90 percent stronger

    The overwhelming upper-body advantage is nowhere near accounted for by differences in size – as can be seen in weightlifting competitions, where competitors are banded by weight, and the male world champion in each category lifts around 30 percent more than the female one.

    When you compare women with adult men, and go global, the picture is starker. Every year, in pretty much every athletic event, men break the women’s world record thousands of times. The fastest time ever run by Allyson Felix, the women’s 400-metre Olympic champion, is beaten more than 15,000 times each year by men and boys. In sports where several advantages are compounded, the differences widen into a gulf. In tennis, the fastest recorded serve by a man is 163 miles per hour; by a woman, 137. The most aces hit in a men’s tennis match is 113; in a women’s match, it’s 31

    The point of sports is to reward hardwork and determination and commitment to the sport and pinnacle of human achievement on a fair playing field (again, why would anyone ever box in the fly weight category if they had to face a heavyweight?)

    Being trans is far worse than doping if they’re allowed into womens sports.

    It gives them a stupid evolutionary advantage (incidently this is why a lot of trans are winning womens medals or why it was quite predictable that that trans mma fighter McLaughlin (a former jackboot US marine) beat Celine Provost on tv to a shocked audience.