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  • I think you mean sports without a physical activity aspect

    No, I do not.

    Mens egos are so fragile that women were banned from minor league baseball when Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig in 1931.

    Figure skating was segregated in 1903 for the same reason, Madge Syers took the silver medal from a man.

    The history of womens’ sports is rife with examples like this, most sports started out as co-ed and only stayed that way until women started winning.


  • Vernacular doesn’t need to belong to a person or even a group of people.

    Then why do they call it “African American Vernacular English”?

    If your problem is with the people who say it and not the word itself, that’s a different issue and one that I’m not really interested in debating.

    Who says I can’t have two problems?


  • Ultra-endurance sports such as marathons (women show a statistical advantage over men above the 150-mile mark), Figure Skating (Madge Syers beat two men for the silver medal in 1902, women were then banned from competing until the sport was gender-segregated in 1906), Baseball (Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig in 1931 and was kicked out of the league a month later), Shooting sports (Zhang Shang took the gold in shotgun skeet in 1992, women were’t allowed to compete again until the sport was gender-segregated in 2000, and women average higher scores in the rifle category to this day), etc etc.
















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    3 days ago

    You’re so close~

    Voting is a placebo, but every election is stolen before it’s even held. Party members decide who gets to run in the primaries and draw the congressional districts to ensure no third parties could ever hope to win. Actual competition between the parties is limited to battleground states, electors elsewhere have no influence on the outcome.

    So, you’re right, but not in the way you think. The political establishment pushes an illusion of choice to keep the population from exercising its power.