DiscgolfStu
Birdie Member
You are trolling until you can provide research or statistics to back up your claim. I have provided 2 articles which you are free to read. The last one is credible and scholarly. opcorn:
The last article you posted is certainly that. No arguments here, and the data is clear.
This is the first thing I said though:
I made the claim earlier, as strength/muscle mass isn't the sole factor in performance for many sports, even contact sport. There is a biological difference between men and women, for sure, but in a sport like disc golf, when 150lb men can throw a disc 500 ft, 160 lb women should be able to do the same. The physiological differences between the sexes arent significant enough for this sport (except that a girl did mention to me once that the shape of her chest did make driving kinda awkward), where technique and strategy outweigh maximum force abilities. I maintain that if women played disc golf with men all the time, their ratings would even out.
Of course, they may not all want to play with men, but that's another story.
The only thing I have to defend is that if more women played more often with men, they would be able to put up similar ratings to men on the disc golf course. I used the example of other women who have been able to physically keep up with men in other sports, despite a sociological tradition of separation and non support (http://www.e-library.esut.edu.ng/up...in-the-history-sociology-of-womens-sports.pdf). Of course it may not be true, but it doesn't seem all that far fetched to me looking at the current state of the game.
Then everyone got angry and tried to prove that men and women were different.