Male fencer Liz Kocab
Ah how sweet.
🧵Female fencer, Marja-Liisa Someroja from Finland has been denied her 2nd consecutive World Title in a rematch against the 6'1" male fencer.
According to another female fencer, most competitors have been completely unaware they are dueling a manhttps://t.co/OfbTr95gkC pic.twitter.com/fh41LSWAsM
— ICONS (@icons_women) October 16, 2023
“They let me cheat, so I keep on cheating.”
Look at the height and reach difference. JFC
There was a good article in Reduxx last month about how this has been going on for nearly a decade in fencing.
Trans-Identified Males Racking Up Wins in Women’s Fencing As Trans Activist Officials Claim They Are Fine With Female Athletes Being At A “Disadvantage”
Having fenced, I’ll attest that the male advantage holds in swordplay, even excluding differences in height and length.
If this is really true, which I doubt, they are very unobservant. Male-pattern chin, male-pattern brow ridge &c &c
NightCrow,
Yabbut, … don’t they wear those fencing masks? (Not all the time I know.)
Also a former fencer. Male reach, aggression, typically greater explosive power. Epee especially can be extremely physical at times (in the 80s and 90s women were not allowed to fence it at all). As a novice fencer of 1-2 years I was able to regularly beat one of our regions then best female fencers at epee for those reasons.