Sports were invented, they didn’t just emerge naturally from evolution. That means the ruling class played a key role in their creation and propagation i.e. the patriarchs decided sports should be based around the men that watch and play them. They decide what sports get funding, state backing, and media attention.
We could have different sports, where biological differences don’t have as much importance. In fact, sports don’t even need to be competitive at all! But, those sports don’t get the support they need to become popular so they remain niche hobbies.
That means the ruling class played a key role in their creation and propogatuon i.e. the patriarchs decided sports should be based around the men that watch and play them. They decide what sports get funding, state backing, and media attention.
No. Sports EVOLVED. Men and women have different sexual characteristics which make them better at different things. This wasn’t a “decision” made by men to separate women out because they didn’t want them included. Women just simply weren’t included at ALL prior due to them not being able to compete on the same level, and were separated out SO that they COULD get more attention and more fair play.
It’s the same reason boxing and wrestling have weight classes, it’s the same reason children don’t play sports with adults. They are separated out strictly for the PURPOSE of isolating skill-groupings so that people in those groupings can enjoy the sport as well.
This separation, ironically, INCREASES inclusion. It allows people to grow and compete with people on the same playing field as them, so that they can compete fairly.
Look at a game such as paintball, which doesn’t have “mens” and “womens” leagues – Women and men can compete on a level playing field, so there’s no reason to divide the sport among sexual lines. Old and young compete on the same fields, because there’s not a huge discrepancy in the skills required at the top of the game. The skills you need to have are simply, agility, good eyesight, fast thinking, and teamwork. None of which are sexually dimorphic traits that humans have. Nobody gives a shit about trans people in that sport either, because you literally cannot gain an advantage from the transition.
The traditional sports were literally invented, there was a “rational recreation” movement during the runup of industrialization when the ruling class were looking for ways to build teamwork skills among workers and discourage sedentary games with drinking and gambling.
Do you think the sport of baseball just emerged naturally from the Earth? No! It was intentionally designed from the ground up to increase productivity and work ethic, to teach workers to follow a coaches orders, to enforce a rules-based mindset, and to encourage competition. Patriarchs invented baseball.
We can make new sports, like your example paintball, that don’t have this patriarchal baggage and that everyone can play without needing hierarchical or biological separation. We don’t have to play the same sports forever.
You don’t need to talk to me like that.
Sports were invented, they didn’t just emerge naturally from evolution. That means the ruling class played a key role in their creation and propagation i.e. the patriarchs decided sports should be based around the men that watch and play them. They decide what sports get funding, state backing, and media attention.
We could have different sports, where biological differences don’t have as much importance. In fact, sports don’t even need to be competitive at all! But, those sports don’t get the support they need to become popular so they remain niche hobbies.
No. Sports EVOLVED. Men and women have different sexual characteristics which make them better at different things. This wasn’t a “decision” made by men to separate women out because they didn’t want them included. Women just simply weren’t included at ALL prior due to them not being able to compete on the same level, and were separated out SO that they COULD get more attention and more fair play.
It’s the same reason boxing and wrestling have weight classes, it’s the same reason children don’t play sports with adults. They are separated out strictly for the PURPOSE of isolating skill-groupings so that people in those groupings can enjoy the sport as well.
This separation, ironically, INCREASES inclusion. It allows people to grow and compete with people on the same playing field as them, so that they can compete fairly.
Look at a game such as paintball, which doesn’t have “mens” and “womens” leagues – Women and men can compete on a level playing field, so there’s no reason to divide the sport among sexual lines. Old and young compete on the same fields, because there’s not a huge discrepancy in the skills required at the top of the game. The skills you need to have are simply, agility, good eyesight, fast thinking, and teamwork. None of which are sexually dimorphic traits that humans have. Nobody gives a shit about trans people in that sport either, because you literally cannot gain an advantage from the transition.
The traditional sports were literally invented, there was a “rational recreation” movement during the runup of industrialization when the ruling class were looking for ways to build teamwork skills among workers and discourage sedentary games with drinking and gambling.
Do you think the sport of baseball just emerged naturally from the Earth? No! It was intentionally designed from the ground up to increase productivity and work ethic, to teach workers to follow a coaches orders, to enforce a rules-based mindset, and to encourage competition. Patriarchs invented baseball.
We can make new sports, like your example paintball, that don’t have this patriarchal baggage and that everyone can play without needing hierarchical or biological separation. We don’t have to play the same sports forever.