• quartz242 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe I didnt Express myself clearly so my fault on that, I'm not advocating for any sport nerfing rather for those that it is applicable to let everyone run the same course, have a standardized challenge where the goal is to constantly try and beat your own record. Lots of track and field, Olympic sports, and the like this could work for.

    I would advocate for the abolishment of any professional sports that severely impacts the participants long term health and well being and for the remaining sports to adopt a metric not based on gender for classifying participants as others have suggested.

    • AStonedApe [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      So out of curiosity, what would you do with a sport like baseball? It doesn't severely impact long term health, men dominate the sport, and I can't think of a good way to change the sport such that women would be included in any significant way. I'm really interested in this concept, and I hope someone smarter than me can propose a reasonable solution, but I certainly can't think of anything.

      • quartz242 [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I'm not super familiar with baseball but local play would self organize by whoever wants to participate, in regards to professional it could be a league based on an individual game play metric. Good question

        • AStonedApe [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm all about localizing and democratizing baseball. But I'm not quite sure what you mean by this:

          it could be a league based on an individual game play metric.

          • quartz242 [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            So from.what little I understand about baseball there are lots of statistics involved so utilizing said play statistics could be used a la a conputer to essentially create a matchmaking system designed to create fair games utilizing gameplay data rather than gender.

            • AStonedApe [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Honestly, I think some of y'all are a bit confused about the nature of some of these sports.

              rather than gender

              Baseball already doesn't directly discriminate based on gender. There are no rules saying women aren't allowed to play. There's certainly a societal component to why there have been literally 0 female MLB players, but I think the biological differences are much more significant.

              utilizing said play statistics could be used a la a conputer to essentially create a matchmaking system designed to create fair games utilizing gameplay data

              How is this not going to produce leagues/divisions with different levels of male competition similar to boxing? Why would utilizing statistics help women compete fairly against men in a sport they already aren't prohibited from playing in? Remember, boxing only achieves (some) gender equality by specifically banning men from the women's competition.

              I REALLY want to get behind these ideas, but I'm afraid there may be only 2 options: leave team sports to discriminate based on gender or abolish the sports entirely.