Originally posted by Bardock42
No, I am not talking aboot only Female Sports..I am saying if Females are allowed to play in the Male leagues..it would be unfair if they would still have seperate Leagues too...that's not equal......thats an advantage towards Women .....so it could either be seperate but equal (not really equal but fair) or just equal all the way (not reall that fair cause females don''t have the same physical level)
I said pretty much the exact same thing in my post on page 2.
As for the chess debate, chess is a war game, war is something men are better at, not because they're more intelligent, but because they have a better mind for strategizing. Down through the centuries war has always been a man thing, not that there are no women who are good at it, just that women were usually at home taking care of the children and the old people, because if all of the women had gone to war as well as the men, you'd have infants and invalids left back home who'd all die from starvation.
Plus men have a mind for war, it's something that has been taught for generations. There have been some truly excellent female warriors such as the Amazon's but when it comes down to all the great battles in history 99 percent of them were masterminded by men. Men fight, women love. It is probably that compassion which keeps women out of war. It is easier for a man to kill another human being in the name of war than it is for a woman. Women have too much compassion, they might stop and question why, and while they're questioning it, get stabbed in the back by their opponent whom they were debating not killing.
My point here is simply that men and women are equal intellectually, just different, they use their minds in different ways. It has even been scientifically proven that men and women use entirely different parts of their brains when thinking about the same exact things.
As for physically, yes, women are weaker than men on the whole. There are some women who are stronger or faster than some men, but not even the very strongest woman can compete against the very strongest man and have even the smallest chance of beating him in a contact sport of any kind. Now sports like racing are entirely different, but most women don't have that urge to be speed demons like men. There are plenty of women who have the ability to race cars, but what they lack is the desire to do so.
So in short, sports where physical strength is not a HUGE factor there should simply be one league for both men and women, like horse racing. You don't see many female jockeys because until now they weren't really allowed to do so, at one point it was actually against the law for a woman to be a jockey in a professional horse race, but her physical strength would not put her at a great disadvantage. However, sports such as football, basketball, and baseball should remain segregated as these games focus largely on the physical prowess of the players, thus putting women at a great disadvantage. If they wish for the leagues to be merged, then so be it, but there should no longer be a women's league either, because then they would have two leagues while men were only allowed to compete in one. Then the men would revolt and the battle of the sexes would start all over again. Personally I think people just need to accept equality and move on, it is the older generations who are keeping this battle alive, not the younger.
This dead horse has been beat to the most rediculous extent, if men and women can't even get along, how can different races get along? How can different religions co-exist? If we are to achieve peace in this world we must learn to accept those around us and get over whatever issues we have with things. Women have achieved equality, they have the right to vote, right to work on any job, and the right to compete in any sport, even if it is in their own league. America no longer needs feminists, equality has been achieved, as it has in many countries in Europe, it's time to drop it and move on. Sure people are going to discriminate against women sometimes because they are prejudice, but they're the last of a dying breed, go back a generation or two from yourself and you'll be surprised how closed-minded the people who came before you really were. And one day your kids and grandkids will look at you and think of you as closed-minded. Step into the future. There's no longer a need for this debate, and feminists need to drop it. It is not essential to anyone's equality that some woman go out on a football field and get splattered all over the grass when she gets hit by some 350 pound quarterback. This is beyond rediculous, it's time feminists move to a country where they're needed and work there to get women the right to vote and the right to work. When the debate turns to sports it has reached the edge of sensibility.
It's simply rediculous to me that debates like this even happen. It's time for feminists to stop before they give a new generation of men a reason to hate women.