politics

men dominate bowling

since ball rpm matters a lot

It takes a lot of skill, but it also requires strength

ok, Loveland is right

just always hit strikes

Women actually have a statistical edge in shooting, but it's close enough that they could be mixed

True, even I can strike once in a while

Women should just get good

but there are just so many more men, it made sense to have a women's league as well

But yeah I feel like until we start developing something like weight classes for literally every sport, this shit will always be an issue

literally just go back to the chromosome testing they did back until 25 years ago

Because it’s kinda crazy right now that people are going into chromosomes and stuff like that to explain what trans activists have been saying the whole time, that that shit doesn’t matter

it's an issue because we've distilled pop science into "man == testosterone, women == estrogen "

which is barely true

Exactly

and regulated the amount of test that women can have to compete

doping is such a meme too

because you find whatever metabolite gives you an edge that's not banned

and when it does get banned in response, you just switch to another

but I do think this current issue

the boxer has a penis

and I think that's why people are a bit extra incensed

the boxer went through male puberty so inhertently has an advantage

I just don’t understand though, why do people think she was born male

I'm not saying male, it probably is long odds XXY or XXXY

and they have either both sex organs or have ill-formed ones

but how do you square weird edge cases like that

This is all just vibes though is it not

it's unfair to make them say "I'm a genetic freak of nature and am neither gender"

I do agree with you here though

Y = male like the actual international boxing rules say

they have tits and an ugly woman's figure, so they live life as a woman

stop worrying about weird edge cases

they should probably not box in the womens league though (or at all)

This is kinda why these debates happen though, but yeah it shouldn’t matter at all

the dirty secret, is a LOT of male Olympians are XYY

which is a PURELY advantageous mutation

cool they are male

This just feels like tinfoil hat stuff, idk

they're technically neither

I’ve never heard any of this before this became an issue and its only an issue because we’re in the middle of a culture war lol

the NBA found that of those DNA tested for something else (I think back when aids was a concern in the 1980s)

that 20% of players were XYY

because it makes men taller an more muscular

for women, XXY and XXXY are EXCEEDINGLY RARE

I wrote a long post about it before

but it really is like 1 per million or 1 per ten million

Yeah I’ve heard that most of the time these result in stillborn babies

yeah, most genetic defects are pretty bad

I think defining women as XX and men as XY covers 99.99% of shit that matters

and the weird bizzaro edge cases

idk, I'm kind of in favor of just excluding them

But isn’t the whole point of the Olympics is to show off the worlds greatest?

no lol

That’s like saying “this 9 foot tall guy isn’t the tallest man because he’s a freak, he doesn’t count”

the olympics are to have a show of peace between nations

yes, and most sports leagues exlude people like that

Loveland unirronically the majority of leagues have maximum body limits

or minimum

baseball you can't be too short

because it breaks pitching rules

same with cricket I assume

and there are plenty of sports where you are soft disqualified based on your physical stature anyway

That’s different than what I’m talking about though, that’s a fault with the rules of the game

I’m talking about straight up tests of strength and stamina and stuff

Like the 100 meter dash and whatever

Obviously you should exclude gorilla strength men from boxing because they’ll kill someone

yeah, and unless you have a very specific bodytype (height, leg ratio, etc) you reasonably can't compete in track and field

But those guys usually become weightlifters and whatever anyway

gymnists are selected from birth based on physical ratio charts

and are culled if they develop outside the bounds of what is necessary to do tricks

that black girl from the US is genuinely the perfect shape for gymnastics

XY chromosomes and “failed to develop a vagina”

That’s what we call a man

I just don’t understand where all this stuff is coming from

Because it’s cheating?

They haven’t tested her for any of this, it’s literally just vibes is it not

Like “yeah idk most women don’t look like that”

I'm pretty sure they haven't tested anyone, because they don't do genetic tests

period