Sometimes I wonder if males are not encouraged to stretch the same way females are for sports like gymnastics. When you consider the male ballet greats like Baryishnikov, it appears males can achieve higher flexibility. Women have it naturally, of course, as a result of our childbearing skeletal and hormonal structures. As well, the dancers in the Asian companies include very flexible men. In my dancing days, I witnessed a few male dancers who got mixed up and wore toe shoes and tutus, looking ridiculous and making the female dancers uncomfortable. I agree with the thrust of this article--no females in male sports either!
A man and woman with equivalent physical training will always come up with the man less flexible because testosterone drives very different tendons than what estrogen drives. The collagen is more heavily cross-linked and stiffer.
This article beautifully encapsulates my belief RE the need for separate spaces based on biological sex. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Female and males both need and should have sanctified spaces where the other sex is not allowed. I have never seen this as a big deal and still don't see why it is one now.
Enjoyed the article and this opens pandora’s box on misandrist thought and activity. You write well and reasoning is quite good I’d consider a book.
This is only a single example of systemic misandry, another one occurs TV and film, which portrays men inevitably as serial killers, rapists and abusers. “Lifetime” TV is the best case example, endless presentations of men as killers. There is a research groups focused on sexist portrayals in TV which highlighted the lack of male programming.
Likewise, there are no professional societies for men at all, but dozens for women - “Society for Women Engineers” is an example. A professional association for men would be accused of rank sexism. Misandry.
More - largest group of People at risk of suicide are older men, but most support services go to young people particularly women.
The list is endless. Most workplace death or injury is men. Criminal sentencing bias. Support for educational attainment. Child custody bias. Addiction. Homelessness. Chronic depressive loneliness.
I’ve never really seen a comprehensive survey of misandry.
What a sob story! Boy Scouts CHOSE to open up to girls and become Scouting America for financial reasons. They were NOT forced to by any law or government. Why don't you take it up with them and do actual research? Instead you implicate single-sex Girl Scouts, who btw, saw this move by Boy Scouts as an incursion to take away their potential members! You really have a persecution complex.
Janice Fiamengo – sounds like a Pick Me girl if there ever was one: “men’s spaces were usurped, their maleness was denigrated, and policies and laws forced changes in male behavior that turned many workplaces into feminized fiefdoms.”
Which workplaces, FFS?! Do you mean schools -- where men are more likely to be principals than their female counterparts even though most teachers are women? Or nursing, where men are more likely to hold supervisory positions despite men being a smaller proportion of the nursing workforce?
(Poor) Men comprise only 74% of Congress and 2/3 of judgeships around the nation. And throughout my life have controlled every major institution in this nation. Observing from the behavior of President Trump, and his cronies in public service, not many laws have “forced changes in male behavior” if you are talking about their tendencies to “be boys.”
I knew a woman who played Little League when younger, and she was good enough to make the team in tryouts without any kind of affirmative action. She is married now to one of her former teammates and I think he’s pretty happy to have met her in their teen years that way.
Sometimes I wonder if males are not encouraged to stretch the same way females are for sports like gymnastics. When you consider the male ballet greats like Baryishnikov, it appears males can achieve higher flexibility. Women have it naturally, of course, as a result of our childbearing skeletal and hormonal structures. As well, the dancers in the Asian companies include very flexible men. In my dancing days, I witnessed a few male dancers who got mixed up and wore toe shoes and tutus, looking ridiculous and making the female dancers uncomfortable. I agree with the thrust of this article--no females in male sports either!
A man and woman with equivalent physical training will always come up with the man less flexible because testosterone drives very different tendons than what estrogen drives. The collagen is more heavily cross-linked and stiffer.
This article beautifully encapsulates my belief RE the need for separate spaces based on biological sex. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Female and males both need and should have sanctified spaces where the other sex is not allowed. I have never seen this as a big deal and still don't see why it is one now.
Enjoyed the article and this opens pandora’s box on misandrist thought and activity. You write well and reasoning is quite good I’d consider a book.
This is only a single example of systemic misandry, another one occurs TV and film, which portrays men inevitably as serial killers, rapists and abusers. “Lifetime” TV is the best case example, endless presentations of men as killers. There is a research groups focused on sexist portrayals in TV which highlighted the lack of male programming.
Likewise, there are no professional societies for men at all, but dozens for women - “Society for Women Engineers” is an example. A professional association for men would be accused of rank sexism. Misandry.
More - largest group of People at risk of suicide are older men, but most support services go to young people particularly women.
The list is endless. Most workplace death or injury is men. Criminal sentencing bias. Support for educational attainment. Child custody bias. Addiction. Homelessness. Chronic depressive loneliness.
I’ve never really seen a comprehensive survey of misandry.
What a sob story! Boy Scouts CHOSE to open up to girls and become Scouting America for financial reasons. They were NOT forced to by any law or government. Why don't you take it up with them and do actual research? Instead you implicate single-sex Girl Scouts, who btw, saw this move by Boy Scouts as an incursion to take away their potential members! You really have a persecution complex.
Janice Fiamengo – sounds like a Pick Me girl if there ever was one: “men’s spaces were usurped, their maleness was denigrated, and policies and laws forced changes in male behavior that turned many workplaces into feminized fiefdoms.”
Which workplaces, FFS?! Do you mean schools -- where men are more likely to be principals than their female counterparts even though most teachers are women? Or nursing, where men are more likely to hold supervisory positions despite men being a smaller proportion of the nursing workforce?
(Poor) Men comprise only 74% of Congress and 2/3 of judgeships around the nation. And throughout my life have controlled every major institution in this nation. Observing from the behavior of President Trump, and his cronies in public service, not many laws have “forced changes in male behavior” if you are talking about their tendencies to “be boys.”
I knew a woman who played Little League when younger, and she was good enough to make the team in tryouts without any kind of affirmative action. She is married now to one of her former teammates and I think he’s pretty happy to have met her in their teen years that way.
The argument from fairness is sufficient for establishing separate sex-based categories in sporting competitions.
It is neither necessary or sufficient for excluding trans 'women' from women's spaces because science classifies them as men.
IQ tests are designed so that males and females have the same average scores.
It might be possible to design a sport that men and women would be equally good at.