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Members of a women’s fishing team refuse to compete alongside trans teammate
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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Why is there an issue with 'trans' but not 'women's'? If they're going to divide up (exclude) sexes, perhaps make a 'trans' competition too.
Seriously. Do they think men have an advantage over women because it's normal for a dad to take his son fishing growing up? I really can't think of any other reason.
Women's sport is not necessarily about having a physical advantage. It can be the case that the sport is simply male dominated and then, especially when there's no physical reason, women may feel like it should be advertised to girls more. And that's what then leads them to organize women-only championships.
Exactly, which is why e-sports sometimes have women's tournaments. Genders play no role here but it's a male dominated sport
Well yeah, thats pretty much it. The womens team is there to get more women in fishing. Sure, a dad might take his daughter to the lake to fish and the deer lease to hunt a few times, but its not as common as a dad taking his son.
Thats not really a concern. Not saying crazy assholes don't exist, but thats not why womens league exist. Besides, it would be easy to see she caught a bigger fish.
As u/madthumb has proven, that /s was in fact necessary.
Lol, nice troll. Casting is more about finesse.
I'm not even a fisherman but I know that comment would get you hung up by your nether regions from the nearest tree 😂
I am very much failing to see how the chess thing makes any sense...
It seems that the chess association that did that is operating from a sexist stance of "men are inherently more logical than women" which led to their transphobic stance of "trans women are not to play ciswomen"
Am I missing something? How does it make sense?
I feel like, at a certain ranking, refusing to play (unless previously beaten said opponent in X amount of time) should be an automatic forfeit. And fuck anyone who says that would reduce overall skill, Magnus Carlsen can eat my left, anal-vibrating, nut.
What are you even on about? ‘In chess it made sense’ like you think women are too dumb for chess???? And no skill in fishing? I guess it’s pretty obvious you’ve never been fishing.
Big yikes
While the comment about fish is probably bullshit the guy explained his reasoning pretty well. Chess grandmasters refuse to play against women, so women don't get the chance to improve to that level as much. Women competitions solve that problem.
Yeah they explained it in a different message, and that makes sense. Didn’t see that one so it came across as you can only get better by playing someone better, so none of the men would play women. With no context sounds like it ‘made sense’ because women can’t play chess. With context it becomes more clear
Why did it make sense for chess?