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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Sexist and 50/50 (Was: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.212715.1677@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:27:15 GMT
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- hillyard@msc.cornell.edu writes:
- >mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini):
-
- >Take tennis. Without segregation by sex there might be a handful of women
- >competing on the circuit--it would be no where near the 50-50 it is today.
-
- Very true.
-
- >I don't know what the final alt.feminism definition of sexism ended up
- >being :), but since Lendl is banned from trying to earn prize money in half
- >the tournaments because he's male, it probably qualifies.
-
- Most sports also segragate according to age, and professional/amateur status.
- Some segregate by weight (boxing and wrestling). Some sports have special
- events for wheelchair athletes (basketball, marathons). Do you think that
- all these distinctions are -isms? (ageism, weightism, etc.) Do you think
- that this segregation is unfair?
-
- rini
-
- (BTW, I thought that the pro-BB women's league broke up in 1981... did
- they get back together?)
-