Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by falcolas on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:06PM (#36525237)

> Otherwise, you wouldn't see the biological differences in track and field performances between males and females, given how much football relies on physical attributes like size, strength and explosiveness.

I will grant you this. A top-level woman can not out-physical a top-level man.

But, there's more to professional sports than just physicality. You brought up Tennis - but as proven in the various exhibition matches, women have not been cleanly swept as one might expect, and many have won over the years.

This leads me to say that there's room even in the physically intensive sports for both genders, not to mention in the less physically intensive sports.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by nradov on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:29PM (#36526254)

Are you sure about that? I don't think there has ever been a tennis match played under normal rules where a top pro woman has beaten a similarly ranked pro man. In the most recent such major exhibition, Karsten Braasch easily defeated both Williams sisters even though he was only ranked #203. The difference in speed and power is enormous, to the extend that at elite levels women and men are playing totally different games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_%28tennis%...

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