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not-terezi-pyrope · 8 months
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"Should trans women be allowed to compete in women's sports" I don't think there should be women's sports. I think it's a silly artificial construction that only upholds the gender binary while it's benefits are incidental and would be better addressed directly.
Care about giving people with different body types and muscle mass a shot? Split your league by weight categories like boxing, or some other direct physical measurement. Gender is at best a poor proxy for these and we only do it because we still treat women are a different species. "But that still wouldn't be fully fair to everyone?" Sport isn't fully fair, it's about rewarding people with the most biological advantage. That's the whole point of it.
You want to give more sporting opportunity to women and minorities specifically? Okay then do that. Create your own opportunities league, but if we're giving up the pretense that it's about essential biological advantage then you better let trans women in.
What's that, the extra league would be treated as a novelty afterthought and would lack the prestige of the real main event? You mean like how women's events were treated when they were introduced? True! In fact women's leagues are still largely treated as secondary now, and you know how we can fix it? Make the main leagues open to everyone with weight, height or muscle mass categories so that people with different body types can excel. Like I suggested before. Problem solved.
Women's sport is bad actually.
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libracorpvs · 4 months
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just discovered shewon.org and i love it! instead of talking about the weirdo males who are desperately trying to worm their way into female sports, let's document the displaced women's sporting achievements and what they would have won if men hadn't stolen their places.
if a woman is missing from the list you can submit her name and info
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saintlermes · 3 months
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Lily Muni He.
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thequietabsolute · 1 year
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Helene Mayer // by Imogen Cunningham [1936]
crédit photo: The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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leicamoments · 20 days
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Happy International Women's Day
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For more than a decade, Caught Light has been proud to support women's sport, providing coverage at all levels - from International games down to grassroots.
Our commitment was to treat girls and women's sport with respect; help support the clubs and organisations promoting both teams and individuals; and to provide coverage in a manner that promoted equality and fairness.
We hope that our photos and video over the years have brought pleasure to those that appear in them, or know the players; and provide memories for everyone in and around the sport.
We hope that what we do, in some small way, provides a glimpse into the emotions and passion of those that take part.
Happy International Women's Day!
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calacuspr · 8 months
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TIMBERSPORTS® star Dee Hardwick a worthy role model for LGBTQ+ community
The beauty of STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® is the inclusive and collaborative community it engenders, alongside the dynamic and exciting nature of the competition.
The British Pro, Rookie and Women’s Championships took place at the Royal Three Counties Show in June, providing intense contest and entertainment for the watching crowds.
This fast-growing competition, which sees participants chop and saw wood against the clock, had its first British women’s event just last summer, 2022.
One of the most charismatic competitors is Dee Hardwick, who recorded personal bests in this year’s event and has set her sights on podium glory in future.
She explained: “I've played lots of different sports and loved a lot of them. This will be my 23rd year playing rugby and I've also played hockey, American football and done judo. You name it, I've played it. I'm a great believer in trying everything once.
“I was a medical rep for 10 years and I got furloughed during COVID. I was buying and selling chainsaws and flipping them and tinkering with them, just to keep myself sane.
“I just went on to the STIHL website for some bits and I saw an advert to come and try Timbersports. I'm a big strong girl and I thought hey, why don't I have a go at this? I went along to a trial day back in March 2022, and got selected for the programme. So, I've been doing it for just over a year now.
“Being big and strong is an advantage, but there's a lot of technique. Watching old videos of the first training day to now, it's just amazing how much the technique has changed. I loved it: it's very addictive.”
Last year's British Women’s STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Championship saw a field of eight women taking part in three disciplines – the Stock Saw, the Single Buck and the Underhand Chop. Points are accumulated for the fastest times with the person with the most points after all disciplines being crowned the ultimate winner.
Watching Dee compete, it’s obvious that she is a performer, engaging the crowd and yet determined to do herself justice.
Last year’s Women’s Championship proved to be a special moment for Dee, as she recalled: “It was really humbling, actually. It's amazing because it's a little bit of history. I'm really for women doing sport and it was great to be part of an inaugural event.
“It was an amazing feeling being on the stage. I used to do Burlesque and a bit of stand up so being in front of a load of people wasn't that much of a worry for me and actually, I used it to feed off their energy.”
Camaraderie is unusual in high-level sport, but Dee has noted the bonds that have grown with her fellow competitors.
She added: “What's really unusual about Timbersports is that everyone is so friendly and everyone wants everyone to succeed.
“This is the first sport where there's no cliques. I've made some amazing friends from it and in fact, one of them is going to be my best woman at my wedding!”
As a gay woman, Dee is well aware of the responsibilities and barriers that occur in sport and the opportunity she has taken to be a role model for future athletes.
“I love pushing down boundaries. I love being out there and proving that, you know, you don't have to be a man to do this. It takes all shapes and sizes. Tall, short, fat, thin, gay, straight, it doesn't matter.
“It's a really welcoming community and it's just the most amazing workout as well. You are absolutely blowing by the time you've finished it.”
Dee is also proud to promote the LGBTQ+ cause and added: “I had my lucky socks on, which are a pair of rainbow striped rugby socks. It's nice to be unique, but it's not seen as an issue and it's not seen as a barrier. It's a great community and I would encourage anyone within their LBGTQ+ community to come and have a go.
“I still think it's really difficult for people to come out. Hopefully one day we won't have to have this conversation about who is LGBTQ+. But it's changed massively. Those perceptions are going and that's nice.”
Dee’s approach underlines the power of sport to teach valuable life lessons, building connections between communities and empowering those for whom sport can provide the confidence and the focus to allow them to thrive.
She added: “I'm just, Dee the ‘lumberjill.’ It's nice to be introducing a great sport to that part of the community.
“If someone says you can't do it, go out and do it twice, to prove it to them. If someone says no, you can't do that because you're a girl or because you're a boy, stick it to them. Go out, do it and show them that you can do it. If you enjoy it, go and do it. Do not let anyone tell you that you can't do something.”
After getting married, Dee will be back training and competing and has dreams of representing her country in international competition.
“I would love to be able to go abroad. It’s huge in America and Canada, and I'd love to be able to do that,” she said.
“Standing on top of the podium with an LGBTQ+ flag flying behind me would be absolutely amazing.”
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® features six disciplines which you can find out about HERE and more information on tools used in TIMBERSPORTS® HERE.
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emma-radfemcanu · 11 months
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The Madrid Open being dragged for being sexist, it’s what they deserve
Basically it all started earlier this week, it was Carlos Alcaraz birthday and also Aryna Sabalenka’s. Carlos got a big celebration, big cake presented to him by a group of sexualised women (more on this later), meanwhile Aryna got a much smaller cake and a small social media post. Which in fairness sort of makes sense, Spanish player at a Spanish tournament, but someone on twitter made a joke about it and a couple of WTA players (Bianca Andreescu and Victoria Azarenka) acknowledged it and it all kicked off... obviously it’s not really about cake, it’s about how women are treated in the sport in general
Ways this tournament has been unfair to women, off the top of my head:
Unequal prize money (although tbf this isn’t unique to this tournament)
It was the women’s doubles final today, neither the winners (Victoria Azarenka and Beatriz Haddad Maia) or runners up (Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula) were able to make speeches, yesterday the men were able to- Vika mentioned this on twitter, Ons Jabeur (last year’s winner) agreed with her
Objectifying ball girls (see cakegate above)- they were all female, wearing ridiculous miniskirts, this got brought up yesterday too and today they were wearing these stupid long shorts and it almost felt like it was mocking us for bringing it up
Ridiculous scheduling- technically this isn’t unique to the women but Iga Swiatek brought it up today and the tournament directors did not look happy. Earlier in the week Daniil Medvedev was complaining about the court lighting, it was like ‘I am second seed I should not have to put up with this’ and while he did have a point, the reason he was on that court is because Aryna was on the main one, she was second seed as well and isn’t less important because she’s a woman
Last year the women’s final was sandwiched in between the men’s semi finals and got very little attention
And obviously there has been a lot of deliberate point missing- obviously the cake itself is not that big a deal, but it was very reflective of how women are treated in this sport
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Most doctors advised against women taking up sport.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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gwqgvllz96 · 21 days
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Today we have the beautiful and sexy with a fat ass, Gia Steel. GO ON...
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ocelotrevs · 4 months
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It's pretty cool seeing women's football on the main sports websites on the same footing as men's football.
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not-terezi-pyrope · 10 days
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Yeah sorry but fuck getting rid of women’s sports , while there’s some exceptions , most cis or trans women in the same weight category as men wouldn’t have a hope of hitting the same weight/speed/jump length whatever , all you’d do is obliterate the careers of 90 percent of women athletes and destroy the other 10 percent by proxy . You think women athletes are treated second best now wait till pro women’s sport is gutted top to bottom because they’re considered worthless to the people with money because sponsors want top ten in a category not top 100 and they want the safest bet they can get .
I continue to think that "fair sport" is an oxymoron. I wasn't the one who invented these games where the purpose is straight up to measure physical ability. I think when that's the premise then you have to give up on the idea that anyone is really owed a chance to compete at the top level.
But even so, if you read my post you'd know that beyond weight categories I was more suggesting a more bespoke system that would have category brackets for whatever attribute is relevant to performance in the given sport. I am not sure I'm convinced that men would "90% obliterate" women in the same weight category, if women have proportionally less muscle mass for a given overall weight then I haven't specifically heard that before, but if that were the case then bracket by calculated muscle mass directly, or something else less arbitrary than gender.
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saintlermes · 8 months
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Girls!
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theowlseye · 7 months
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Happy 10 years to the most defensive hornyposting of all time
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pucksandpower · 21 days
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footballbro · 1 year
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There’s this cool campaign to correct the biases on the internet people should do it.
Go to correcttheinternet.com
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animentality · 3 months
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