I don't know a great deal about Algerian law, but I understand, perhaps incorrectly, that there would be severe reprisals for being gay or transitioning.
I was a very large man in my youth. I never "boxed" with women, but I frequently "wrestled" with women friends, even much smaller women. It was for fun and I gave them the advantage in t…
I don't know a great deal about Algerian law, but I understand, perhaps incorrectly, that there would be severe reprisals for being gay or transitioning.
I was a very large man in my youth. I never "boxed" with women, but I frequently "wrestled" with women friends, even much smaller women. It was for fun and I gave them the advantage in the initial positioning. I didn't always end up winning.
I played basketball and football (not flag) with mixed gender friends. Men were not always better than the women in competitions. Of course we were friends and no one was trying to hurt anyone, although noses did sometimes get broken.
So imagining world class athletics, I envision that some train harder, and there are differing levels of skills and bodily development. A man can pummel another man in a fist fight and I've witnessed a woman knocking a man often his feet with a single punch, so why wouldn't a woman be able to do the same with another woman.
Granting the very best male athletes are probably more skilled (faster, stronger, capable )of jumping higher, et. al.) than the very best women in any sport---the vast majority of males would be deficient in competing against the very best female athletes in any sport.
A lot of hullabaloo over false equivalencies. Put flabby large bodied Donald Trump, or ,myself in my prime, I imagine we would have lost to that femala Algerian boxer as well.
Unaware of your proficiencies Mr. Katz, my assumptions would lead me to believe that as a typically skilled male, there are women who could be better than you in any given sport and you would be more competitive in others.
Women could outshoot me in basketball, but I could out rebound them. But then I could also out rebound almost any male competitor and one gentleman told me I couldn't have played semi-pro basketball because I was a lousy shot.
Does anyone get my drift here? Comparing the skill levels in any sport as male v. female is a false measurement to begin with. It is the individual v. the individual and some of one sex could have greater athletic skills than some of the other sex in any endeavor.
One correction: I'm a female Sam. I've was nicknamed Sam at age three. My real name is Sharon. But, I totally agree. In some of the Olympic competitions, gender is not a factor -- ie. equestrian events. Men and women compete against each other; because it's really all about the horse! Also age is not much of a factor, either. One of the competitors in dressage was 55 and she's the winningest equestrian in the Olympics. If the horses don't care, why should the people? I don't know if it matters in shooting sports, either. It certainly doesn't matter in chess.
apologies.; I tend to make incorrect misogynous assumptions myself about names. My first great love was Charlie, I couldn't bring myself to call her that.
Nevertheless I can admit it, and had to admit to Charlie, my attitude is wrong.
i know. i am unclear why i have that failing . Maybe because I stuttererd and couldn't pronounce it (I don't believe it was feminine nor masculine) but i couldn't get my tongue around kentrolaphagat. My parents always continued to call me that, but for everyone else I quickly became ken. But i don't know what the connection would be
It bugs me, though I've known several women who go by "sam" , that I always make a misogynist assumption ii is male.
I have a grandson who was Ben but became Gwen and I have no problem with that, I have no problem with women being any name, and there is a trend towards unigender names---my issue, is with myself, and my continually making false assumptions.
But names are important, people do want their names spelled and pronounced correctly.
I don't know a great deal about Algerian law, but I understand, perhaps incorrectly, that there would be severe reprisals for being gay or transitioning.
I was a very large man in my youth. I never "boxed" with women, but I frequently "wrestled" with women friends, even much smaller women. It was for fun and I gave them the advantage in the initial positioning. I didn't always end up winning.
I played basketball and football (not flag) with mixed gender friends. Men were not always better than the women in competitions. Of course we were friends and no one was trying to hurt anyone, although noses did sometimes get broken.
So imagining world class athletics, I envision that some train harder, and there are differing levels of skills and bodily development. A man can pummel another man in a fist fight and I've witnessed a woman knocking a man often his feet with a single punch, so why wouldn't a woman be able to do the same with another woman.
Granting the very best male athletes are probably more skilled (faster, stronger, capable )of jumping higher, et. al.) than the very best women in any sport---the vast majority of males would be deficient in competing against the very best female athletes in any sport.
A lot of hullabaloo over false equivalencies. Put flabby large bodied Donald Trump, or ,myself in my prime, I imagine we would have lost to that femala Algerian boxer as well.
Unaware of your proficiencies Mr. Katz, my assumptions would lead me to believe that as a typically skilled male, there are women who could be better than you in any given sport and you would be more competitive in others.
Women could outshoot me in basketball, but I could out rebound them. But then I could also out rebound almost any male competitor and one gentleman told me I couldn't have played semi-pro basketball because I was a lousy shot.
Does anyone get my drift here? Comparing the skill levels in any sport as male v. female is a false measurement to begin with. It is the individual v. the individual and some of one sex could have greater athletic skills than some of the other sex in any endeavor.
One correction: I'm a female Sam. I've was nicknamed Sam at age three. My real name is Sharon. But, I totally agree. In some of the Olympic competitions, gender is not a factor -- ie. equestrian events. Men and women compete against each other; because it's really all about the horse! Also age is not much of a factor, either. One of the competitors in dressage was 55 and she's the winningest equestrian in the Olympics. If the horses don't care, why should the people? I don't know if it matters in shooting sports, either. It certainly doesn't matter in chess.
apologies.; I tend to make incorrect misogynous assumptions myself about names. My first great love was Charlie, I couldn't bring myself to call her that.
Nevertheless I can admit it, and had to admit to Charlie, my attitude is wrong.
A name is a name. Mine was a nickname I got when I was three. It stuck.
i know. i am unclear why i have that failing . Maybe because I stuttererd and couldn't pronounce it (I don't believe it was feminine nor masculine) but i couldn't get my tongue around kentrolaphagat. My parents always continued to call me that, but for everyone else I quickly became ken. But i don't know what the connection would be
It bugs me, though I've known several women who go by "sam" , that I always make a misogynist assumption ii is male.
I have a grandson who was Ben but became Gwen and I have no problem with that, I have no problem with women being any name, and there is a trend towards unigender names---my issue, is with myself, and my continually making false assumptions.
But names are important, people do want their names spelled and pronounced correctly.