• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Boxer loses fight, conservatives pretend to care about women or womens’ sports and lose their minds. Same song, different day.

    Imagine. All the horrible, tragic, and important things happening in the world and what you all choose to (pretend to) care about is the chromosomal makeup of Olympic boxers.

  • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca
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    Woah hold on. I have been informed Angela Carini has 5 fights under her belt. How is somebody with 5 fights in the Olympics? That’s why she lost, she had no business being there. This has nothing to do with gender or sex, it was about experience and skill.

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        Thank you for your input friend, but where did I say I thought men fighting women is ok?

        What I did say was that I thought for the Olympics, which is ostensibly supposed to be for elete level athletes, it makes no sense to put someone with 5 fights in their career up against someone with 50. That Italian woman was the Jamaican bobsled team of boxing.

        I think I understand your point about the testing though. Fun fact: you know who else was all about regulating people based on genetics? Rudolph Hess and the rest of the nazi crew. Hess said that Nazism was “applied biology” and what with all the people talking about biology this and biology that I see those ideas haven’t died out.

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    This circles back to why we sexual sports leagues to being with.

    If a xy athlete has a statistical advantage over a xx athlete, do we care?

    If we don’t care then we setup one league regardless of genders.

    If we do care, then we segment the groups and have multiple leagues.

    the IOC is going to have to come out with a clear mission statement and define the purpose of their parallel leagues. I think there will be lots of debate as people are mixing gender identity vs chromosomes and developmental hormones. I don’t envy the IOC officials

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      The reason for women’s leagues is to encourage women to join and enjoy the sport. Hard to enjoy a sport when the opponents demolish you every time. Thus, women’s leagues are closed to men, but men’s leagues are open to women.

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      I feel like their plan is to just keep avoiding the discussion until something bad happens or we hit a flashpoint moment of some sort, and that’s going to be bad for everyone except the IOC because they can say they were ‘forced to take action’ and wash their hands of it.

      I hate where we’re at but I get their reasoning, I don’t see any fair solution here, they’re all unfair.

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        I do kind of respect their approach. We’re just going to go by what’s on the passport.

        Kind of kicking in the can, but let other countries work it out