Should sports be separated by gender?

[Tank Program]

Why do male tennis players get payed loads more? People simply find it better to watch that womens tennis.

Whoa WHAT? How on earth is mens tennis better to watch than womans tennis?

grouped by performance

That ought to be fine.

[Hoax]

Whoa WHAT? How on earth is mens tennis better to watch than womans tennis?

in terms of gameplay..........alright aright I'd rather watch sharapova's ass

[Ricochet]

lol i was waiting for someone to say something like that

[Sabarai]

Then still, in the FIFA rules it doesn't state that a soccer team should consist of only men, but still no women get trough to the top of the league..

And yes, better watch Sharapova's everything than watching any dude..

[Lucifer]

Then still, in the FIFA rules it doesn't state that a soccer team should consist of only men, but still no women get trough to the top of the league..

How are women treated in the league? Could it be that women are unofficially but very strongly discouraged from participating?

[Sabarai]

No they aren't, but there's a womens league too...

[HEXadecimal]

Posting before more chauvinistic "MEN ARE MIGHTIER THAN WOMEN" responses turn up . <8)>

I think it should be based on ability, pure and simple.

EDIT: A WOMANS PLACE SHOULD BE IN THE KITCHEN!

way to show your new comunist persona

[Lucifer]

No they aren't, but there's a womens league too...

ANd does this league send up their champs to compete in whatever the top competition is? (World Cup?) Or is it "separate but equal"?

[Sabarai]

That I do not know, although I can imagine it would be a greater honor to play for the 1st team than for the women's team since there will be more audience and attention for the 1st team.

[Fonkay]

I voted for seperation. Although I haven't decided yet whether my mind will be changed. As a female in a male dominated field, I know seperation. But I'm not sure I know enough about sports to participate in the conversation.
I do know that men and women are different. Whether these differences would come as a pro or con I'm not sure. That may depend on the sport.
Sab: I think looking at the question itself, and not the current order of things might be more appropriate. And also, pointing to wiki is not something that should be labeled FACT, more like "wikitruth"
Luci: While it may be true that seperation in sports doesn't make sense (I for one do not know) You can't deny that men and women are different physically. It's not a deciding factor of there ability to play sports. But other than the lonely penis men and women have many differences in body structure.

[Lucifer]

Eh? I'm not denying there are physical differences between men and women, just that they're not relevant in most sports, or at most play a small role.

[Sabarai]

In this case the wiki-links can be labelled as fact, because they show most recent changes in the field of numbers. I could also link to other pages, but I wouldn't know English ones. (example)

Further, the branches of sports where physical difference doesn't matter is where you don't need to use strength, since women can't develop their muscles as good as men can.

And if there's a mixed sport, the discrimination against women would be near zero, just as there is no discrimination for black or white or any other color people in soccer/basketball etc.

[Lucifer]

Further, the branches of sports where physical difference doesn't matter is where you don't need to use strength, since women can't develop their muscles as good as men can.

Not even giving women the option is discrimination anyway, regardless of sport. The only time it matters is in sports that are dangerous for women, but guess what, those sports are dangerous to men too (american football and boxing come to mind). Track and field are sports that don't use brains for much of anything, as someone else pointed out. Also, someone on that other site linked a marathon time graph that was interesting, women in 2003 broke men's records from the 30s. Of course, in the 30s they still thought women were inferior...

(and didn't I already say your facts are irrelevant? We can play the "you name a sport that doesn't require brains or skills and I'll name a sport that has those as the determining factors" if you'd like)

[Sabarai]

Sure they can have a chance, but as you can see in the differences in results they won't stand a chance. And yes, they beat the men's record of the 30's, but aren't the men way faster than the 30's record now? That's all new technologies (Better shoes, lighter outfit, better food..) and new training methods.

Ask a sportswoman what she would like, get the gold in a women's competition or 15th in men's..?

Here's for a nice biological experiment: Raise a twin brother and sister EXACTLY the same, and give them a sports education. Let them compete when they're ADULTS and you will see that the man will be faster and stronger than the female.

Tennis players Venus Williams and Serena Williams have been raised to play tennis by their dad since they were 4 years old. The fastest serve Venus ever made had a speed of 127.4 mph. Very fast so to say. But the fastest recorded serve for men is 149 mph. These girls have been educated to play tennis, nothing more nothing less. They have been serving balls (no jokes please) since they were 4 years old, and still a man can serve harder than they can. Doesn't this say something? In males tennis a service of 127.4 mph is a respectable service, but easily countered, while MOST (no, not all, but a lot) of women can't hit the ball back.(source)

[Your_mom]

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