A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.

  • @doyadig
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    210 months ago

    In which sports do women routinely outclass men?

    • @Maggoty
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      610 months ago

      Sixth grade basketball it looks like…

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      In sixth grade at most schools? Probably most of them. That’s right around when most boys just start hitting puberty and girls tend to generally be bigger and more athletic than boys until then.

      In general? Gymnastics, figure skating, cheerleading, skiing (best downhill skier in the world is a woman)…

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        That’s not how any of this works.

        For example your skiing example: Mikaela Shiffrin is the best skier in the world based on wins (as she won a fuckton of competitions in several different event types). But those were all wins against other women. If she directly competed against men she’d probably lose if it’s a 1:1 downhill race for example. This is why there are articles like this, where people are hyped that she’s ‘close’ to male skiers in times.

        There’s also instances of highschool basketball where female teams got beat by male teams several years younger than them. Of course puberty gives a boost, but it’s not this magical thing that suddenly sets males and females apart https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34032904/

        • @Maggoty
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          510 months ago

          You’re pulling out scheduling studies to defend the hyper masculinity of middle school age sports.