• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Women’s sports exist because men wouldn’t allow them to even play competitive sports, period. Women’s leagues were created as a conciliatory gesture from misogynists, not out of some sense chivalrous duty to uphold fairness and equality.

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      28 days ago

      There isn’t men sports. There are sports, and women sports. The league men play in allow both genders.

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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        28 days ago

        Lol, no they don’t. Some do, but many don’t.

        For games like golf, up until relatively recently, women weren’t even allowed to be club members.

        Let’s not rewrite history.

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        28 days ago

        That’s how it works today, but historically that has not been the case. Women even being allowed to play sports is less far removed from the present day than you might imagine.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      28 days ago

      That’s an interesting take when there’s generally no rules preventing women from competing in professional men’s leagues.