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It really does matter though.
It's the entire point.
You realize that no woman will ever win in a physically demanding sport ever if you remove the separation, right? Its not an opinion, look at every swimming/Athletics/weight lifting/cycling/any sport with a physical component world record, to find the objective fact of the matter.
I respectfully disagree.
No women will ever "insert thing here" is completely nonsensical. Just like with the labour force, this divisive thinking exists to divide us so more companies can profit from someone elses labour. It's an excuse to maintain the patriarchy. I highly doubt that there won't be any women at the top given the same time and money investment as men. Furthermore, we're happy to separate women sports from men because women genetics, but you get shot if you suggest subsidised hygiene products for women. Why can't we be more consistent as a society?
Personally, sports involves way too much money and BS, play for fun, we're not collectively Charlie Sheen, winning is not the most important. ASICS is the most important in sports.
Do you want to see stats to prove I'm right? You're changing your argument to fit your own idea of what you think I'm saying. We are talking about sports, competing, about actually being THE objectively, easily measurably, best at something.
This isn't a philosophical stance to agree or disagree on. It's observably true, and has nothing to do with money in or out.
Here is a fitness study testing the physical differences between boys and girls, before and after puberty.
It has more than 2 million children tested between ages 9-17. As you might see, top 10th percentile of boys are objectively stronger than the top 1 percentile of girls. After puberty the difference increases. Girls perform better at the test involving flexibility. Which makes seense when you see top performing gymnastics, where women arguably are more popular and attracts greater audiences.
Here are all world records in athletics. The only record you are going to find where the womens record beat the mens, is discus. But the womens discus weighs half of what the mens does.
I see you missed the point.
It doesn't matter who is the top 1% when the monetary incentive doesn't climb exponentially.
Hypothetically, if the top 1% earnings were taxed at 90% meaning the distribution of sports wages was normalised where it doesn't change by several orders of magnitude for the top 1% performers, do you think women would have issue for being relegated to a 2nd Bundesliga? If pay didn't change significantly? Why do the 1% need to make 250M a year and the subsequent lower leagues have to survive with that same amount between themselves, all of them?
At the end of the day, what I'm saying is, if you change the incentive structure, being in the 1% will not mean retiring at 30yo.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck are you on about?
At no point has money been a part of the discussion, it has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. Or what the main part of the thread was about.
You said that you want to remove separation/segregation in sports. OK, i might have misread, but everything you said made it seem like you don't want to separate men and women in competition.
That will lead to women no longer being a part of sports, since no one wants to watch tier 6 football on TV. Which is where female football players might qualify to play. But even that is quite a high tier, considering the swedish womens football team lost to boys under 16 in a practice game. They will no longer be able to qualify for the olympics in any athletic competition, except perhaps for gymnastics, where there is physical advantage for being a woman.
You live in some kind of fantasyland where people watch sports "for fun". You might play sports for fun, but people want to watch the best. Women have fought for decades to have their own separate leagues in order for them to be a part of the best in a sport. You somehow think the only reason women don't compete with men in sport is because they don't get payed? That's an insult to all female athletes that worked their whole lives to be the best woman.
It would be like going up to Florence Griffith Joyner and saying "Nah, you just didn't try hard enough at trying to beat the men at 100m dash".
I recon you don't even like to watch sports.