No, that's not fair for your friend to assume that, because duh, he's not a woman! It would be as absurd as me assuming that I could speak for the experiences of gay men. It's still mansplaining even if a gay man is doing it.

I am totally with you.

That article was stupid and anyone who reads it and thinks it is a good criticism should be forced to repeat sixth grade and read Lord of the Flies for 8 years.

Your friend is an ass.

I think the attraction to beards thing kinda comes with age. For instance, I could not see teenage me or even early 20s me being attracted to beards simply because my peer group didn't commonly have them. Now, beards are a little more on trend and I'm older and getting more used to seeing people in my peer group with…

awww i'm sorry you had a bad day :(

I love how he lists his demands before even explaining what it is he offers. It's like "I'm a man, I like the Bears, I have a heartbeat and I want kids!" but before even all that he lists everything a woman cannot be. Being single forever does seem like a good option compared to this guy. There's nothing wrong with…

I do not think it's at all shallow or vain to not want adverse side effects from your medications!

If it was really about men being stronger and larger than women....why are 5 year olds separated by sex for soccer?
Before you hit puberty, there are virtually no differences between the sexes. That's why transgender children don't need hormone medications until they start puberty.
Yeah....still not buying the reasoning…

I am a female Army officer with ten years experience, including in combat. I'm going to blow my own horn here to make a point - I'm highly professionally regarded, I graduated in the top 5% of my military college class and was awarded the leadership award from the "premier leadership institution" in my country, I've…

I'm just gonna leave this here... Katie Taylor (pride of Ireland, Olympic boxing gold medalist & multiple world boxing champion) sparring with Paddy Barnes (Olympic bronze medailst) as she has no other females at her level to train with.

I was friends with a girl in junior high who wanted to wrestle. Coming from a wrestling family myself, I thought that was pretty cool of her. She did one year and did okay; many of her matches were default wins by forfeit. The next year two girls from a rival junior high thought they would wrestle too. Having gotten…

Kudos to this discussion for making sports interesting, somehow.

Sorry dudebros if the lady is good enough at whatever it is she wants to do, she should be allowed to do it. Wrestling, football, horseback archery, farting contests, whatever.

I don't understand why this is an issue.

One of my best friends in high school wrestled and played football on the boys' team. At first, the football coach was not having it and "didn't want her to hurt herself", but eventually conceded. Why is it that men seem to think they know what's best for women and girls at all times? Everyone has the chance of…

This comment from the New York Times article "Already Competing With the Boys, Girls Get Their Own Wrestling League" is probably pertinent to this discussion in some way:

"Arguing that mixed gender wrestling is in essence, sexual assault, is a bit of a stretch. If that were the case, wouldn't male-male wrestling be…

I wrestled in school on a coed team. Some of the people I competed against were boys. Some were girls. I got to listen to all of the lectures from the sexists about how women can't compete with men because of upper body strength differences, but the girls on our team often won matches against boys because we seemed to…

Women out perform men in open water swimming. And not by just a little bit, but consistently and by a large margin.

My best sparring partners are women, because they hold nothing back AT ALL and force me to work for every advantage I can get. I'm a better fighter for it, and so are they. Gender differentials in such things is a waste of time and talent.

And cue the weak excuses for we can't have inclusivity...