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scoofy 3 hours ago

The issue is that “woman’s sports” is itself intentionally discriminatory. That the issue of discrimination comes up is to be expected.

The idea of competitive sports exists in a framework of discrimination means that you will always have unhappy people.

The good news is that sports, for the most part, is mostly symbolic, and rarely affects ones livelihood.

TurdF3rguson 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Assuming you have already procured food and shelter, everything important in your life is symbolic.

scoofy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, which is why civil rights laws tend to be about employment and housing.

bluescrn 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The issue is that “woman’s sports” is itself intentionally discriminatory.

Just about anything competitive is discriminatory. People are disadvantaged by genetics, disability/health issues, age, wealth inequality, and more.

But as a society we love competitive activities, so the best we can do is come up with rules to try and impose a reasonable amount of fairness.

TimorousBestie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately pointless, mostly symbolic things attract the most hysterical reactions from people.

peyton 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Five billion people followed the Paris Olympics. It’s actually kind of important.

squigz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How do you even measure that at that scale? I'm sure I would be counted among that 5 billion, yet my "following" was searching medal counts every couple days to see how poorly my country was doing, yet I would never describe it as "important" to me in any way.

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