She can go to the team competition. She was competing in the boys competition.

Yes, because golf is all about knowing your competition, with all those 1-on-1 battles on the course.

She can go to the state team competition, the tournament she won was for eligibility to the boys individual state tournament. She can compete in both team tournaments and the girls tournaments, just not the individual boys ones.

Or.... perhaps they have a girls tournament because Emily is likely the only girl or one of a handful of girls in her state that can compete against boys at that level, so if you had two tournaments open to everyone, both of them would likely be dominated by boys, and most of the girls that would normally be playing…

Okay, so hypothetically 16-year-old next LeBron James also likes to play football, and wouldn’t be able to play in the boys state championships because it would interfere with his football schedule. You’d be fine with him playing on the girls team?

... yes, really.

The #1 LPGA ranked golfer, Lydia Ko’s average drive distance is 243 yards.
The #1 PGA ranked golfer, Dustin Johnson’s average drive distance is 315 yards.

The average PGA golf course is over 700 yards longer than the average LPGA golf course.

But then he also wouldn’t be allowed to compete in the girl’s state championships in the spring, which you know... she is.

Yeah... that’s the reason they gender sports. How about we fold the PGA and LPGA together so we can watch a handful of women finish near the bottom of the leaderboard and never win a tournament ever?

I mean, there is actually a very good reason why golf is gendered. Let’s just say you folded the PGA and LPGA tours together into one golf tour. There would be a handful of women that would make the tour, and they would never win a tournament. There is a huge disparity between the mens and women’s games, even in a…

“So while a girl on a boys squad can play in the boys team state tournament, she cannot play in the boys individual state tournament under any circumstances.”

She can’t play in the boys individual state tournament, but is perfectly eligible for the girl’s tournament. She doesn’t need a girl’s team.

Tell me, if a guy is good enough to compete against girls in high school tennis, should he be allowed to compete against them, if the high school doesn’t have a boys tennis team?

She was disqualified because she was ineligible for the tournament. It’s a boys-only tournament. She wasn’t supposed to be allowed to compete. Someone messed up in letting her enter.

Okay, so let’s just remove the gender from the sport altogether. How many girls are making the state tournaments under that scenario? Emily here is a huge outlier.

A woman might technically be allowed to or theoretically be able play her way onto an NBA team, but let’s not kid ourselves here. It’s literally never going to happen.

He didn’t slip. He caught an edge.

Slow news day? Nothing better to talk about than celebrity gossip? Life must be super rough.

It’s actually even less in the issue. In the NHL, first round upsets happen regularly. In the NBA, you’ll be lucky to see a #5 seed beat a #4 seed, and maybe, on a special year, you’ll see a #6 seed beat a #3. But #1 ans #2 seeds in the NBA make it past the first round over 99% of the time.

What the fuck are you getting on with? I’ve not asked her to write about my or anyone else’s experiences, or discouraged her from writing her own. But how she treats sexual harassment in general in the article? Extremely gendered. She stereotypes men out to be the harassers and women out to be the victims. There’s no…

“Practice and qualifying results announced in a headline? Not spoilers. Only race results.”

“So, YES, spoilers in motorsports DO exist.”

It’s a good thing we’re still gendering the sexual harassment issue. It’s not like most women couldn’t think about their past encounters and realize they’re probably just as guilty of sexual harassment as any other guy...

Nope.

Let’s make sure all of those guys who are victims of sexual harassment keep to themselves as…