Smasharoo wrote:
Ah yes. The "if it's wrong for race, it's wrong for everything" argument. So we should eliminate weight classes for wrestling then? Cause that's discrimination, right? How about we eliminate all entry requirements for everything? No more tryouts cause that would be unfair to those who aren't very good at things. Would make professional sports interesting at least.
Work with me for a minute. Let's dismiss your whole "Harrison Bergeron.."people will marry their dogs!" thing for a minute, because it's silly and useless and focus on your examples.
So we should eliminate weight classes for wrestling then?
And.
No more tryouts cause that would be unfair to those who aren't very good at things. Would make professional sports interesting at least.
How do these coexist in your tiny little mind as examples of the same "problem"? Weight classes in wrestling are exactly the opposite of "we shouldn't limit sports based on physical characteristics". Polar opposites.
You honestly don't see it? You have a remarkable inability to see that two things can be similar without being identical. For example. If I were listing off a couple different types of food dishes, I might list both Spaghetti and Roast Beef. Yet, shockingly, Roast Beef is not Spaghetti. Wrapped your brain about this concept yet?
Similarly, I've listed two things in which there are requirements. They are not
identical requirements, but in both cases, we accept that you don't get to play in a given class/level unless you meet the requirements. In professional baseball (for example) you must try out and be good enough to play at that level. Similarly, you don't get to wrestle in a given weight class, unless you are in that weight class (and there are also levels as well).
The point, which apparently sailed right over your pea brain, is that in society we accept a whole host of different requirements for all sorts of different things. And no one runs around claiming unfair discrimination every single time. If you want to call something unfair discrimination, and equate it to racial discrimination, you need to do more than simply declare it to be so. You need to show that they are similar in some way. And you need to show that it's *not* like all the other forms of discrimination that we accept and allow in our society every single day.
You have failed to do that. Hence, my point. Determining who can play on a given sports team based on physical characteristics (like se.x) is closer to discriminating based on physical ability than on race. The entire reasoning, in fact, is that if boys and girls played on the same teams, most of the girls would never get to play because the boys would be better players in any given age range (assuming we're talking about school sports here). Fair or not, there are physical differences based on se.x, and those differences do affect things like sports.
It's not the same as saying the black male can't play with the white males Smash. Suggesting it is requires a special kind of nuttiness.
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How can you possibly be this stupid? That's not a rhetorical question, how is it even possible? Your logic is 40 sigmas away from Earnest goes to camp in the direction of making any sense. It's fucking astonishing.
It's always funny how you project your own inability to understand simple concepts on those around you. Maybe take a look in the mirror?