Originally posted by Surtur
It would take an elite woman just to compete with an above average man I'm sure you'd agree. And I'm also sure you agree there is a massive difference between an above average male athlete and one at the top of their sport. Hell just being merely above average usually is never enough to really make it professionally. Even the dude finishing dead last in an Olympic race probably is still above being merely an above average athlete. He's just the shittiest out of a handful of elite athletes.And I think an elite male athlete would probably destroy a female one. Like, Serena Williams or whoever is the #1 woman in tennis now...if we put them up against the current #1 guy in tennis what do you think is gonna happen? WNBA champions play the NBA champions, what happens? Now do soccer. Now do running. Now do weight lifting.
Shit speaking of tennis, while it was before my time perhaps you remember the battle of the sexes? There was two different matches, one guy who was 55 against two different women. The first woman he beat and she had been #1 for 7 years at the time. And he was fifty frickin five. The 2nd woman won. So two elite female athletes in their prime went up against a washed up formerly elite male athlete in his 50's and only won 50% of the time. And that should be the story people tell whenever someone tries to argue about this nonsense.
Regarding your comment about Serena Williams probably losing against a top-tier male athlete, we already know that she in fact wouldn't stand a chance in Hell. She already went up against a male tennis player who wasn't even ranked in the top 100 of male tennis and she got her ass handed to her. I think she may have scored once or twice in all the games they played.
He utterly annihilated her and guess how seriously he took the matchup based on his training before playing it? He didn't practice, like, AT ALL. He even joked that he had a couple of beers before playing her yet he still casually destroyed her. I could only imagine what a male player in the top ten would do to her and she is basically the best that women's tennis has to offer at the moment.
Serena even admitted later on after that match when she was on a talk show that she's glad she doesn't have to compete against men because it's like a totally different game.