Conservatives were very upset when this Algerian ''person" easily won the Olympic competition for women. By the way, from what I read we are probably talking about a real hermaphrodite here, the one born looking like a woman but possessing an Y chromosome and thus having a higher testosterone level. Now imagine if women had to fight against a genuine man...
Recently I read a discussion online where women were claiming that a female can be just as good a soldier as a male and men basically told them yeah, we watched these Olympic fights, you won't fool us any longer.
In fact, this whole "girlboss" trope would die the well-deserved death long ago, if not for the neo-Victorian pseudo chivalry promoted by both feminists and conservatives. Like in "a woman is as strong and capable as a man but don't you dare hit a girl, you dastard". One really has to wonder what is so conservative about female boxing;)
I personally think women shouldn't box at all. And I have mixed feelings about women and competitive sports in general.
ReplyDeleteI have an old "medical book for homes" from year 1929. All the writers are doctors, and really big names at that time. There is a chapter about exercise. Men's copetitive sports are encourage, but the writer points out that even though it is important for women to exercise, too, women should not compete because our nervous system does not support such activities, it kills femininity etc.
Since we all know today that testosterone makes men more competitive, more athletic and more tolerant to stress, I kind of think he has a point there.
I have also read that female athletes (and ballerinas) can have osteoporosis on rather young age, due to unnaturally low body fat. It is quite common that women who exercise hard start missing their periods, and that is actually a warning sign. Exept that nowadays they are all on the Pill, so they get some sort of flow (because it has nothing to do with normal menstruation). So they do not even know, there is something wrong...
Female athletes also have lots of eating disorders, much more than men. Because female body doesn't want to be THAT skinny, but they want to be as "ripped" as possible to look good in those bikini-like outfits.
That is exactly the reason behind female sports and female careerism, the reduction of fertility.
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