Oh look... a bunch of pictures of people competing in the Olympics. You probably could have grabbed random pictures of normal people and it would have been more relevant.

I do agree with this.

I said there appears to be less body diversity (relative to men). You turned this in to “all women in sports look the same” which is not at all what I’ve said at any point.

That image does include non-athletic women competing in non-athletic competitions. There are numerous Olympic events that very few (if any) people would be comfortable calling “athletic” (like golf, or shotput). This is not to say they don’t hone their bodies phenomenally for a single purpose... but... “athletic”…

1. Olympic competitors are already outliers in sports (their the extremes in each of their respective fields). There probably isn’t a worse sample group if you wanted to get an impression of the norm in regards to builds found in most athletic people (the “athletic people” characters in games might end up being…

“Women all look the same in sports”

I see them frequently in the games I’m playing... but we might not be playing the same games. Anecdotes are tricky like that.

The exception(s) that prove the rule.

Some Olympic sports barely require physical activity.... you might as well pull a sampling of the general population up as a way of undermining my point. I mean... do you think the Olympic Pigeon shooting gold medalist is necessarily a good reference point here?!

We’re not talking about what physical body types are poss…

...no one is saying that they want women represented in exactly the same body types, heights, weights and shapes that men are; rather, they want women represented in as great diversity as men are.

I arbitrarily picked football because it’s a sport that favors diverse body types. It drives diversity in body types. If you look at any sport that drives a particular body type you find less diversity among both men and women in that sport (make the inherent differences when comparing the sexes less obvious). Most…

I can’t seem to find a single point at which you directly engaged with any of my points. Kudos?! I hope it felt good at least.

in any kind of sports, the more devoted the muscles the more growth they have, this applies to both females and males, sure women have lower body size generally, but they do get muscles

http://www.iwflsports.com/

Because women hardly even play American football, it’s hardly comparable.

I don’t think creative people need to burn a lot of fuel engaging in social activism all the time.

I wouldn’t agree with that only when comparing within the same position.

Your concerns seem to have nothing to do with anything I have said. I’m sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

I think you may have missed my point. There is huge diversity among male body types in, say, football (relatively tall slender runners, large muscular or flabby blockers)... you don’t find the same wide diversity among female athlete body types (relative to males) even in exactly the same sport.

Again... I don’t deny…

How do you think male and female body-type diversity in sports compares in real life?