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la_vie_noire) wrote2009-09-14 08:53 pm
la_vie_noire) wrote2009-09-14 08:53 pm
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The one issue I’m not seeing as feminist bloggers ask these questions is: How then do we preserve women’s sports? I’m interested in practical answers. It seems like the wrong answer to desegregate or let those who have the biological traits we associate with men to compete, because what that would functionally mean is the end of women in sports. Women simply cannot compete at the highest levels with individuals whose bodies have masculine strength, height, and power.
The IAAF handled this badly, and they acted like Semenya cheated. They may have a too stringent line for what is “female”. But a line, where everyone is competing against everyone else, female athletes by and large would fall off the map. It would be a shame, for instance, to have people like the Williams sisters languish in obscurity because they simply can’t break into the top ranks of players if they’re forced to compete against men.
None of this discredits the critiques you’re offering. I’m simply interested in your practical response. How do we accommodate the problems you outline without desegregating and ending women’s sports?
Guess who was that? Amanda Marcotte. Now the representative of white, cis feminism everywhere.
Wonder yourself woman why you "aren't seeing" that.
The IAAF handled this badly, and they acted like Semenya cheated. They may have a too stringent line for what is “female”. But a line, where everyone is competing against everyone else, female athletes by and large would fall off the map. It would be a shame, for instance, to have people like the Williams sisters languish in obscurity because they simply can’t break into the top ranks of players if they’re forced to compete against men.
None of this discredits the critiques you’re offering. I’m simply interested in your practical response. How do we accommodate the problems you outline without desegregating and ending women’s sports?
Guess who was that? Amanda Marcotte. Now the representative of white, cis feminism everywhere.
Wonder yourself woman why you "aren't seeing" that.
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The argument is stupid. And shows how a lot of people don't even try to make a decent research about intersex, testosterone and how it affects intersex people, how anabolic steroids are measured to catch doping, and the hypocrisy of women sports in dealing with intersex women (men with natural hight levels of testosterone over competitors, or people with any other kind of "biological advantage" aren't never disqualified and ripped off their medals).