A brave and beautiful new world.
One thing I learned having a daughter that surfed was, until a certain age, there wasn’t much that separated the sexes.
Girls, although wildly outnumbered, regularly won contests and demonstrated the same stratospheric improvement in skills groms get from long days spent in the ocean, free of the need to work or tend to kids etc.
Then, around twelve, the girls split into their div and the boys into theirs. And, what happened when the genders were divided was the boys continue to improve, due, largely, to the volume of boys surfing.
Meaning if there’s fifty boys in the boardriders club, a few of ‘em are going to be preternaturally talent, whereas if there’s six or eight girls, it’s way less likely.
Ergo, competition brings out the skill, not a little extra muscle and weight.
If Stephanie Gilmore had gone through the men’s system, boys junior events, the men’s qualifying series, you think she wouldn’t be a level above even what she is now?
Anyway, I ain’t sure about other sports, MMA, boxing, swimming, football and so on, muscle and power count for everything there, but The Atlantic’s Maggie Mertens argues we gotta smash the gender binary in her (guessing the pronoun here) story, “Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense”.
“Gen Zers are more likely than members of previous generations to reject a strict gender binary altogether,” she writes. “Maintaining this binary in youth sports reinforces the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive setting—a notion that’s been challenged by scientists for years.”
And,
“Though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still don’t know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential.”
Where do you stand?
Binary, non-binary or do you, like I, enjoy any kind of sugar in your bowl?
10.8…winner? 10.3!
East Coast Championships paddle battle…(photo: Dick Meseroll)
Or, what Kelly vs Layne would look like in their youth!
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Yawn
After this weekend I will try to only surf weekdays. No joy with the crowds…
I don’t use sugar.
more menu items and the push for egality disclaimer…
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I’m as left-wing as it gets, but this whole thing is insanity.
Shit were you at Doheny this weekend when the my wife, aka the enforcer was hitting or getting hit on almost every wave? My oldest gave her shit and said if she was a guy she would have lost teeth for her aggressive efforts
So is Sasha
We watched both of our boys play coed soccer until about age 6 or 7 and the girls were decidedly more coordinated and skilled up until 7 or 8sh. BUT when the boys began to leverage typical boy dynamics like physicality the game changed. So at least in soccer had the girls kept playing with the boys they would likely develop the physicality traits the boys exhibited but I suspect many girls would have left the sport due to that physicality. So I believe in the gender separation as I’ve watched a generation of girls thrive, via confidence from athletics and other dynamics, in the business world due to confidence built throughout childhood.
Now in ski racing, a sport my boys were engaged in from 6 on, the separation on the race course was obvious even though the kids trained and free skied together. No knock on girls or women but certain physiological traits are obvious so I don’t see a fair playing field if sports combine gender.
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Finally took a close look at the pic, she is an atomic talent!
If only she had gone through the men’s system. Maybe she could go left.
My wife is a great wrestler, she’s always competed with the boys.
So are the wxmxn.
You know that feminism has come full circle when women are willing to banish themselves to obscurity in order to deny basic biology.
Great work, Non-Binary Carbon Based Life Forms™️.
Erin Brooks and Caity Simmers would win every U16 Boys and U18 Men’s event they enter.
And a boys high school soccer team smoked angry Megan Rapinoe and the lesser paid women’s national soccer team.
#biologymatters
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Erin Brooks just got 4th in the mens Rip Curl Pro at Padang Padang.
and Toledo did zero airs at Trestles
Recently I saw Brooks surf a wave faster than I’d ever seen anyone surf before. Honestly, I thought I was tripping. Then I realized I was definitely tripping, simply because that was the fastest I’d ever seen someone surf.
Send me a link to Brooks fast surfing, I’ll trip while watching the video and report back
No video, just happened to be at the beach when she showed up. If you can find her Padang cup contest footage, it’s impressive.
I can’t think of a better sport to test it out! Watching surf aggression is boring–the hungriest surfer snapping turns off the lip to hit as many paddlers with spray as he is able. Makes me hate the sport just thinking about it. The only thing worse is watching pro women do the same in comps. They’re worse at it and they wipe out trying more often.
But have you ever seen Leah Dawson on a wave? I surfed at the surf ranch with her and watched her all day–it changed how I think of surfing altogether. Good luck finding men
who can match her in style points. And I’m sure if the sport were opened up to finding new ways to judge a ride, we’d see some more soulful beauty from the likes of Carissa Moore and Tyler Wright that would shock and surprise.
Ignorant leftists notwithstanding, the world is our oyster. Let’s try it. In 20 years we may have some worthwhile pearls.
I’ve had the pleasure of surfing with all three of those ladies and would happily do so again. The men’s CT is full of wave-hogging and drop-in happy cunts. At least the ladies learnt some manners along the way.
first comment after many years of observation here. if this dude doesnt get ridiculed soon I will never come to this website again. thanks in advance.
Ignorant leftists notwithstanding, the world is our oyster. Let’s try it. In 20 years we may have some worthwhile pearls.
I can’t think of a better sport to test it out! Watching surfaggression is boring–the hungriest surfer snapping turns off the lip to
hit as many paddlers with spray as he is able. Makes me hate the sport
just thinking about it. The only thing worse is watching pro women do
the same in comps. They’re worse at it and they wipe out trying more
often.
But have you ever seen Leah Dawson on a wave? I surfed atthe surf ranch with her and watched her all day–it changed how I think
of surfing altogether. Good luck finding men
who can match her in
style points. And I’m sure if the sport were opened up to finding new
ways to judge a ride, we’d see some more soulful beauty from the likes
of Carissa Moore and Tyler Wright that would shock and surprise.
And the chicks with inside out pussies?
So non bonery.
you reckon sasha developed legit sammich making skills already?
I don’t understand how any of you left wingers think this could be a good idea? Why would you even want your daughter competing against boys? So ignorant! I guarantee you if you asked any CT female surfer they would say no way would they wanna go against the boys! If they do, they know deep down they really don’t, they just want to be tough. That I admire!
talked like a real girl, you on the right way boy…
Actually (real) researchers do know. Biology makes all the difference after around 13 years of age, especially in sports where muscle strength is an advantage. Sports like figure skating and boogie boarding, not so much.
Riding a lid is fucking hard, especially when you have to tell you parents that…..
That’s why it’s so much easier being black.
‘Cause no one will fuck with you?
been feeling this for years. Lets do it