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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 1:33 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 11:33 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I was in cross country, yes, and in track I did mid distance. So, the 400 and 800. But that was back in the day when I was in school. I don't do comparative running anymore, just run for exercise now a days.
You?
I've done almost everything . I've always been into sprints and horizontal jumps, but in high school I moved up to the 400m and then tried and loved hurdles, so 400 metre Hurdles is my main event now. Also I focused on the heptathlon for a few years, but it's a bit much to try to train for 7 events at the university level. I've done a lot of cross country too (despite hating it with a passion, I don't know why, but I couldn't bring myself to quit until uni), and last year I was into half-marathon kind of distances. But overall hurdle events are my favorite.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 1:38 pm
I've come to the conclusion that I don't have enough information to make an informed decision on this issue.
I think sometimes that is the wisest stance
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 1:38 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 1:33 pm)shadow Wrote: (March 1, 2018 at 11:33 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I was in cross country, yes, and in track I did mid distance. So, the 400 and 800. But that was back in the day when I was in school. I don't do comparative running anymore, just run for exercise now a days.
You?
I've done almost everything . I've always been into sprints and horizontal jumps, but in high school I moved up to the 400m and then tried and loved hurdles, so 400 metre Hurdles is my main event now. Also I focused on the heptathlon for a few years, but it's a bit much to try to train for 7 events at the university level. I've done a lot of cross country too (despite hating it with a passion, I don't know why, but I couldn't bring myself to quit until uni), and last year I was into half-marathon kind of distances. But overall hurdle events are my favorite.
I really wanted to do sprints in track. I was really fast and think I would have done really well in it. But my coach said it would mess up my long distance because you use the muscles differently, and since cross was my main thing, I settled with mid distance. Ahhh... I miss high school so much... I think I'm one of the few people who loved high school lol. And sports was the main reason why.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 1:44 pm
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(March 1, 2018 at 1:20 pm)SaStrike Wrote: (March 1, 2018 at 1:03 pm)Shell B Wrote: Yes, I am using it correctly. Since when is a gender only considered athletic dependent upon how many sports there are for that gender in the Olympics? Is that easier to understand?
You can't measure the overall athleticism of a gender on sports. Athleticism is a set of characteristics that a person can have even if they've never played a sport in their lives.
Not what I originally posted, I posted that both genders in the same events of the Olympics have different levels (male being much higher level) for example quicker sprinting times and higher jumping lengths. Not that there are more male than female events. Now if the levels of athletic ability are different in the exact same Olympic events, it means males are more athletic than females.
It seems what I'm conveying is being completely lost. I'm giving up.
(March 1, 2018 at 1:38 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I don't have enough information to make an informed decision on this issue.
I think sometimes that is the wisest stance
Yeah, I'll talk about it and ask questions, but I definitely don't have a side in this debate.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm
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Hehehe, I get ya Shell....i think. We're all born with the potential for athleticism because it's innate to our species regardless of gender. Any comments regarding the "relative athleticism" of gender are and can only be limited to the small subset that competes in some specific game with specific conditions and necessarrily excludes anyone ho doesn;t compete or any other metrics of determing athleticism either in general or in relation to gender disparity (real or imagined).
It would be like saying..because bobby fisher was good and most of the pro chess circuit is male..."males are better at chess". That's ludicrous, the data set, even accepted without qualm on it;s own grounds, is insufficient to make such a binding general declaration.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 2:05 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Hehehe, I get ya Shell....i think. We're all born with the potential for athleticism because it's innate to our species regardless of gender. Any comments regarding the "relative athleticism" of gender are and can only be limited to the small subset that competes in some specific game with specific conditions and necessarrily excludes anyone ho doesn;t compete or any other metrics of determing athleticism either in general or in relation to gender disparity (real or imagined).
It would be like saying..because bobby fisher was good and most of the pro chess circuit is male..."males are better at chess". That's ludicrous, the data set, even accepted without qualm on it;s own grounds, is insufficient to make such a binding general declaration. Not to mention the fact that in fact their are women who can mop the floor with even the best chess players
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 2:08 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Hehehe, I get ya Shell....i think. We're all born with the potential for athleticism because it's innate to our species regardless of gender. Any comments regarding the "relative athleticism" of gender are and can only be limited to the small subset that competes in some specific game with specific conditions and necessarrily excludes anyone ho doesn;t compete or any other metrics of determing athleticism either in general or in relation to gender disparity (real or imagined).
It would be like saying..because bobby fisher was good and most of the pro chess circuit is male..."males are better at chess". That's ludicrous, the data set, even accepted without qualm on it;s own grounds, is insufficient to make such a binding general declaration.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 2:09 pm
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If there were a puppy clubbing circuit in the us, I'd be a ringer...I'd even wager that I'd be better than most females at puppyclubbing. To declare me, as a male - or males in general by reference to me "more athletic" on those grounds would make me giggle while I was clubbing puppies.
I'm just better at clubbing puppies because I know that their flesh is delicious and unspoiled by work. I doubt I'd play unless we got to eat them. The presence of penis is conspicuously absent in any explanation of why I can club puppies like a boss. I'm just a fundamentally hangry person. I come by it natural, my grandmother is fucking -evil-.
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2018 at 2:19 pm by SaStrike.)
(March 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Hehehe, I get ya Shell....i think. We're all born with the potential for athleticism because it's innate to our species regardless of gender. Any comments regarding the "relative athleticism" of gender are and can only be limited to the small subset that competes in some specific game with specific conditions and necessarrily excludes anyone ho doesn;t compete or any other metrics of determing athleticism either in general or in relation to gender disparity (real or imagined).
It would be like saying..because bobby fisher was good and most of the pro chess circuit is male..."males are better at chess". That's ludicrous, the data set, even accepted without qualm on it;s own grounds, is insufficient to make such a binding general declaration.
You are roasting her? Because chess is considered athletic...
Anyway it was about sports so why bring unmentioned mystery athleticism in?
Thread was literally about sporting competitiveness!
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RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 1, 2018 at 2:20 pm
I didn't bring the term athleticism into it. Athleticism is perfectly well-defined. You know, like contingent is well-defined.
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