One thing that always surprises me about gymnastics is how inherently sexist it is. For nearly all sports, the male version of the sport is identical to the female version. Maybe women don't lift as much, don't run quite as fast, or do shorter distances (like in speed skating), but the basics of the sport are the same. Not so in gymnastics: men and women do entirely different things. Men are all about upperbody stren…
>One thing that always surprises me about gymnastics is how inherently sexist it is. For nearly all sports, the male version of the sport is identical to the female version. Maybe women don't lift as much, don't run quite as fast, or do shorter distances (like in speed skating), but the basics of the sport are the same. The rule differences between ice hockey for men and women are such that I've heard it said that th…
Re: Women’s gymnastics is legal child abuse
#91Even in track and field, the diffrence in the height of the hurdles between the men's 110m hurdles and the women's 100m hurdles makes them very different activities.