Oh, come on.

A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
    252·
    8 months ago

    Howdy queue -

    From where does your belief arise?

    I asked (in a left-leaning space) whether sports segregation was sexist, and it was explained to me it was necessary.

    Just like it’s hard to argue men aren’t massively bigger murderers than women, I thought there was no contest in the majority of sports too.

    I see claims like “no woman in the world is competitive with any top-rated male athlete in any sport except shooting.” redditors add equestrian sports and a few others to the mix (SafeReddit source).

    Everyone deserves visibility, and segregation apparently helps.

    From Wiki:

    In tennis, “Battle of the Sexes” describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case. The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. King’s win is considered a milestone in public acceptance of women’s tennis.