To clarify, the pictured poster Caroline Kwan is an ally, not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones ‘protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is’

  • @chonglibloodsport
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    It was neither? Both? It was an intermediate sport between the two. They had made some of the rule changes to rugby that are more in line with modern American football but not all of them. Modern American football has the forward pass and rules for protecting the passer, called the quarterback. That dangerous in between sport did not.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      14 months ago

      ok i see, i know that spots have changed over time, i’m just not really sure how they’ve changed. Obviously football has a lot of protective gear now, though it’s debatable how well it works.

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        14 months ago

        The new equipment has also had rule changes brought in to prevent it from being used as a weapon. Helmets and shoulder pads in particular are a big cause of injuries when they’re used as battering rams. Some of the newer rules (such as fair catch) have been really successful at preventing injuries.

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          14 months ago

          yeah, the irony in protective gear causing more damage is due to players quite literally just impacting harder in general. You wouldn’t want to do it without any protective gear, and you wouldn’t and if you did impact, it was a lot more gracefully.

          Though it makes sense misuse of them would also cause problems lol, reminds me of the DOT standards for motorcyle helmets, utter dogshit standard, and you should basically just ignore it, but it’s also “technically better than nothing”

          • @chonglibloodsport
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            14 months ago

            I remember hearing somewhere that people are more likely to tailgate someone on a bicycle if they’re wearing a helmet rather than not! That’s crazy to me!

            • KillingTimeItself
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              14 months ago

              that could be true, the opposite is true for people in larger vehicles though, you feel safer driving in a larger, higher vehicle, which is true, but the problem is that you’re more dangerous to other drivers on the road as well.