The long arms argument is crap. The correct analogy is weight classes.

That’s why we have weight classes in wrestling and men’s and women’s sports.

Clearly he’s going to merge them to save tax dollars.

Brock Baker:

It’s actually kinda meaningful in that you would actually have to pay the men more to get them to play.

I think she’s 5'4.

What? Virtually every sport has separate divisions for men and women, because those conditions divide the participants in ability. Similarly, there are separate divisions for age groups, because physical age makes a huge different in ability.

Yeah, this is the sort of article/comment section that makes me wish kinja had a log showing bans.  It’d be super interesting to see which accounts were getting banned, and by whom.

It’s not likely in the Olympics because the monetary rewards there come mostly from sponsorship. But I guarantee you a broke low level male tennis/golf player would switch for the money.

You need to check your axioms.

Fight that battle then, not this one.

This has got to be the funniest thing written on Kinja this week.

Sure.  But at least one of them was already ranked in the top 5.

Serious question:  If she doesn’t gain an advantage from it, why did her times get worse when it was lowered?

You’re working from a different set of axioms with “Semenya is categorically female.” The whole point of these rules is to establish a scientific bright line to define who gets to compete in women’s sports.

I think you’ll find that most of the people who are posting here agree with you.  But sports is inherently a special case.

Just because some people are shits doesn’t mean everyone is.

These guys are all creeps or worse, but I was really confused by the Drav story.

“Looks good on film” is the root cause of many unrealistic cinematic tropes. This holds for all sorts of movies.