if women have the capability to hold a bowling ball inside them for 9 months then push it out, I think they are physically tough enough to play right along side of guys.
Made me laugh.
So very true.
Well. Being a decently sporty female, I think I belong here.
I think the sports that we are centering this around are the most common sports.
Football, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball.
I play football with guys sometimes. Not on a team, but I do play with my male friends. There is a wall there, obviously, but I don't think it's for the wrong reasons. As it has been stated, guys are built differently. Guys play hard, girls do too. But most girls wouldn't WANT to play the same way with males in football. Do you really thing females want to jump on the field and run towards huge guys almost double their size?
So, for football I think there should be some type of line, but ONLY if the person wants it. I think that if a girl is silly enough to want to run into a tree, she should at least be able to go for it. Doesn't mean I approve. but I understand why people frown upon it.
Soccer, I think this should be co-ed. Guys run fast, so do girls. If a male would beat a female in speed, the female will probably train harder to match him or beat him. Children's soccer is co-ed, I don't see why they should be separated if they played together when they were kids. Heck, half the girls on my team I coached were faster and more focused than the guys. But the boys started noticing that girls were beating them, and that pushed them harder. In the end of the season, They were evenly matched. (Granted they were 8-10 years of age and hadn't hit puberty)
Basketball is another thing that should be co-ed. It's the same principle behind Soccer, but Basketball is a bit more challenging, given the physical contact. But that doesn't stop the girls or boys team when they practice with each other at my school. So I don't see why it should stop any other team.
Baseball. Female part, Softball. I think the name softball is slightly degrading, considering if you get hit in the face with a softball, the mark will be bigger than if you get hit is the face with a baseball. And that ball is far from soft. The softball/baseball boundary is huge here, and I don't know why. They say the guys are better, but If you give them Softball equipment, they will fail.
That was an experiment at my school, though. The Softball team used the Baseball equipment, and the Baseball guys got ours. We had the same batting average, if not increased. Most of the girls hit better with the baseball bats than the softball bats. The guys stats were absolutely horrid. *shudder* They apparently can't hit a bigger ball with a bigger bat.
I don't understand why we have to pitch the ball a different way, either. Most of the pitchers I know, have either really messed up pitching arms, or have paid to have some sort of professional medical conditioning for it. And if you don't pay for that conditioning, you will probably soon have the really messed up pitching arm.
I just don't get it, but I think it should be co-ed. I see no reason for it not to be, since I've already talked about speed and such.
Now. There are a few sports, like Ice Skating, that can be co-ed. I haven't done research or anything, but I believe in some competitions, Surfing is co-ed. Track is semi co-ed, it really just depends on which team you join, because I know a lot of them where I live accept both girls and boys in one team. Swimming is the same as Track, it just depends where you go. We have guys alongside girls, swimming for the same trophy.
And this brings an end to my post.
