Fair environment via cheating
A few weeks ago:
But that’s not inclusive and fair. That’s the whole point. It’s not fair to women. Women are people too. Please make a note of it.
Also how the fuck does that “reduce administrative complexities for all athletes”?
By letting the chickenshit administrators not have to say no to males in female categories. It might cause the cheaters to experience unhappiness, or worse, social media tantrums. It’s very complex. :P
As a longtime technical rock climber and mountaineer, I just have to laugh at this. Women routinely beat men in rock climbing competitions because as a group, they are just better. It’s one of the few sports that I know of where female competitors have a distinct advantage over males. (There are many reasons for this, but the biggest one, in my opinion, is that the men tend to fall back on using strength to overcome obstacles, whereas the women learn good technique from the start, because they don’t have similar brute strength. There are other reasons too, of course. For example, Lynn Hill was accused of “cheating” on her successful first free climb of “The Nose”, a famous multipitch trad climb, because her fingers were small enough to jam cracks that the men could not.)
So basically, any man trying to compete as a woman in technical climbing is probably going to fail miserably, demonstrating that the whole charade is just an egomaniacal power trip by these dudes. “Look at me!”, they seem to say, “I’m a laydee!”
James, do you think there’s a need for sex categories in climbing? Maybe it should be unisex, like equestrian sports.
(That would be ever so sad for the trans competitors: no validation for them.)
#2 James
While I have zero climbing knowhow, the way you phrase this sure makes it seem as though the male body has an advantage. Male and female alike can develop technique, but men often don’t bother as they have the brawn advantage. This suggests that a male climber could take the time to develop technique and thus have both to his credit, leaving the women behind.