This is obviously because extreme sports are misogynist.
Is this the same kind of folks pushing for women in ground combat positions because women and men are equal?
1) Just guessing here, but I would suspect that the venues for these same sports in pre-Olympic competition are set up the same for both genders?
2) Can you imagine the cost to make duplicate facilities for both?
3) Are the women even complaining about this, or is this someone wanting to throw a new log onto the “war on women” fire?
Just askin’.
Women’s injury rates are higher in all sports, not just extreme sports, compared to men
Women’s basketball players have a higher incidence of ACL and other leg injuries...and numbers are similar in volleyball, softball, and every other sport
Wonder if this article is an underhanded attack on extreme sports women because, by and large, they are attractive and like men....they sure weren’t using Tinder to pick up other girls.
For years the Lesbian Left has started attacked certain womens sports, like gymnastics and figure skating, because the women are straight (only male skaters are gay) and their sports emphasize aspects of beauty. There is a large contingent of womens sports that want to keep it Lesbian only
But, but, but....women are equal to men, that's what all the feminists and women-in-combat supporters say!
Maybe the wimmen folk should be home knitting warm socks for the sportsmen. < /sarc>
The women are getting what they want
If they are maimed or die in the process, so be it.
Just an extention of the GOP’s War On Women.
The GOP must be in bed with Putin.
The winter Olympics is about various ways to move on ice or snow. You can skate and sometimes to music, board or ski, ride a sled, or push an object. Some people do silly things in the air and some people shoot at targets to enhance the experience. They keep trying to outdo one another with maneuvers that will eventually kill someone. And then they're surprised that people get hurt.
I have an idea. Why don't they leave all of those athletes off in Siberia with a GPS and guns or knives for hunting, let them choose skis or skates or sleds, and make it a survival game. Everyone who gets to Sochi alive gets a medal and an interview with the NBC interviewer of their choice.
“But most women grew up in a time when they view themselves as capable as men.”
There’s your trouble. Ideology clashing with biology.
Sounds like a bunch of girlie whining to me. If you can’t take the heat, etc. (And I am a woman.)
Women are built to breed.
Anybody who steps out of that architecture to do otherwise is doomed.
Equality. Women are equal until they demand unequal special treatment.
Note if a man brought this up saying we have to protect these little waify women from courses too difficult for them to handle,
guess how that would be taken.
Point is, men saying this would be slammed for paternalism and sexism. The other point is I thought women could do physical things equal or better than guys. These are the top female athletes in the world, no less.