Debatable
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:
The head of the NCAA says it’s “debatable” whether male athletes have a physical advantage over females.
I propose a scientific experiment to end the debate. Take the top 50 male athletes in every NCAA sport and play them against the top 50 females. Run a “Best of the Best” tournament with brackets, just like any other tournament. See who winds up on top.
Where there are different rules for men’s versus women’s sports, we play from the women’s tees, throw the women’s shot putt, etc. Referees and judges will be equally split, men and women, to ensure fairness.
Biological men. Biological women. No trans people allowed. This competition is not a social studies project to pamper sensitive feelings, it is a scientific inquiry to determine whether biology plays a determinative role in sports. Therefore, people with unusual medical conditions such as Imane Kehlif who has Swyer Syndrome, will be excluded, as they are outliers who will skew the results.
The sports where guys win the tournament prove trannies cannot compete against girls because their male biology gives them an unfair advantage.
The sports where girls win are the sports where trannies can compete against them, since they won’t have an unfair physical advantage.
And once we’ve established that by SCIENCE, it can never be questioned again. After all, you trust the Science, don’t you? You’re not a Science Denier, are you?
Joe Doakes, no longer in Como Park
That’d be cool – but it’s kinda been done.
December 23rd, 2024 at 9:15 am
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion
Mr Doakes should be embarrassed in thinking that DemoCommie policies are ever based on facts, reason, or logic. His suggested experiment, a perfectly reasonable endeavor, has already been running for the last 50 years. The results are as expected.
And they have made zero difference preventing idiots like that Baker fella from taking charge of the NCAA. Hell, there are still mindless feminist idiots arguing that women should serve in combat roles – even tho’ it is well known the only way (almost all) women can qualify is if they get less stringent screening (same as firemen, policemen…).
December 23rd, 2024 at 9:33 am
Hey Charlie Baker, then why do you have women’s sports?
December 23rd, 2024 at 10:24 am
It strikes me that for a lot of sports, the competition has already been held. It’s called the “Olympics”, and in any sport where a stopwatch, weight, or distance is in play, it’s not the top 50 men who beat the top woman–it’s closer to the top few hundred.
Really, the major question that’s out there is to what degree does it matter if testosterone is no longer in play, and for that, the relevant answer is also found in the Olympics. The East German swim & track teams were heavily on steroids–really pretty much all of the Warsaw Pact–and they closed the gap with the men about 2-3%, whereas the overall difference between the top men and women is around 10-12% in the “speed” events and double that or more in the strength events.
So more or less, letting “trans” athletes and 5-alpha reductase 2 deficiency athletes (e.g. Caster Semenya) into the womens’ division is like letting men in, and the only thing that protects the women from getting seriously hurt in the “contact” sports (basketball, volleyball, combat sports, etc..) is the fact that there aren’t that many of them, and hence the “outliers” are at a male two sigma instead of a four sigma.
That noted, every once in a while, you are going to get a three or four sigma athlete posing as “trans” or 5a-R2, and the overall impression will be that instead of Imane Khelif in the ring, it will be Canelo Alvarez, and there will be serious injuries and even fatalities.
December 23rd, 2024 at 11:56 am
The last 50 years? I must have have been living under a rock. The last men’s champion versus women’s champion head-to-head match I recall is Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs.
Who did I miss?
December 23rd, 2024 at 2:25 pm
You didn’t miss a thing. I brought up the point in time 50 years ago because up until that time women didn’t really participate in sports, so there was pretty much no argument. In my high school there was all of a sudden (competitive) gymnastics, tennis, golf, and volleyball. For women.
I didn’t realize what happened in ’73. Thanks. 51 years ago – a woman at the prime of her career beats a 55 yo male tennis hustler. Oh, wait, there’s more to it than that.
In 1973, Riggs saw an opportunity to both make money and to draw attention to the sport of tennis. He came out of retirement to challenge one of the world’s greatest female players to a match, claiming that the female game was inferior and that a top female player could not beat him, even at the age of 55. He challenged Margaret Court, 30 years old and the top female player in the world. In their May 13, 1973, Mother’s Day match in Ramona, California […]
Riggs had originally challenged Billie Jean King, but she had declined. Following Court’s loss to Riggs, King accepted his challenge, and on September 20, 1973, the two met in the Houston Astrodome, in a match billed as The Battle of the Sexes. King beat Riggs, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 for the $100,000 winner-take-all prize. (You can follow the “Battle of the Sexes” link to see why). Unlike a similar match between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova in 1992, in which the rules were altered to favor the female player, this match was played using the normal rules of tennis.
Nothing, however, has changed. Men (male professionals) still easily beat female professionals in tennis (In 1999, Karsten Braasch, a German tennis player ranked 203rd in the world, challenged the Williams sisters (Serena and Venus) to an exhibition match after they claimed they could beat any male player outside the top 200. Braasch won both matches, defeating Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2.). There are still men’s and women’s tees in golf. There are (or at least, were) men’s and women’s barbells in weightlifting. Women are toyed with in soccer. Women still don’t play football.
All this evidence has been in existence for 50 years and it still doesn’t matter. DemoCommie policies are never based on facts, reason, or logic.
December 23rd, 2024 at 10:04 pm
Anybody with eyes and common sense should know this (which does rule out a lot of politicians and bureaucrats).
Fortunately more intellectual competitions like chess are surely more balanced without the physical component. I’m sure there aren’t separate titles for women, or a calculated rating that would demonstrate the opposite.
Oh, wait…