"let's gender desegregate sports and make it all into one league so it's skill based instead of gender based!!!"
hey. so i know the vast majority of people on tumblr haven't kicked a ball since 7th grade PE class but i can guarantee you if we got rid of women's leagues and put everyone together there would be very, very few women in sports. There would be no women in basketball, football, and track. and this isn't "misogynistic" of me to say. let's just look at the stats.
in texas, the 2025 400m record for high school boys is 47.30 seconds. meanwhile, the women's world record in the 400m was set in 1985 by Marita Koch, at a time of 47.60 seconds.
there have been a total of just 38 dunks in the entire history of the WNBA. since the 1996-97 NBA season, there have been over 210,000 dunks recorded, with the record going to dwight howard at 2950. Both leagues have the same hoop heights.
i've seen people say that katie ledecky is faster than michael phelps and this is evidence that women can compete with men on a professional level. it is true that ledecky is faster than phelps in the 400, 800, and 1500m freestyle. however, the last time michael phelps competed in these three events was when he was 15 years old. in fact, if you were to place katie ledecky in the men's league for the 800m (in which she has set a world record!) she would be 21 seconds slower than the man in 25th place!
it's not misogynistic to believe that sexual dimorphism exists.
