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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Polak, men do not have an advantage in sport. They have an advantage in select sports where upper body strength is a primary tool but otherwise men and women can physically compete at the same level.
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I await the day when the champion of the Men's World Cup of football plays the champion of the Women's World Cup of football. I expect it will be a gripping sporting contest.
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Originally Posted by ernie
Why? I suppose I give people far too much credit. It's a topic that has been explored in a significant way over all forms of media. And I'm not talking about whether you accept such rule changes or even the person themselves but people should know by now that gender and sexual orientation are not the same.
Sex, gender, and sexual orientation are all different things.
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Expecting anything that has only been on the public radar for a few years to be common knowledge
is expecting too much. Especially when that subject:
A) Is unintuitive and complex (and yes, this stuff is unintuitive and complex).
B) Affects only a very small number of people.
Quantitative easing has been prominently in the news for several years now. President Obama mentions it in speeches. It affects us all. And yet I'd guess a great many decent, intelligent people don't understand what it really is, or how it differs from qualitative easing. Personally, I'm not going to hold it against them, or assume they're being disingenuous and harbouring some kind of agenda if they profess to being a bit fuzzy on the subject.