• knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s not entirely true.

    Some sports did allow women to participate, but only until a woman embarassed a man by winning. Then they’d be banned until women set up their own leagues.

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      1 year ago

      When did that occur and in what sport? That seems like an interesting event in sports history, I would be interested to read about it.

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          11 months ago

          I meant when and in what sport “a woman embarrassed a man by winning” leading to gender segregation of the sport. Olympic shotgun skeet seems like an example, but that’s a pretty esoteric “sport,” so using that as an example to generalize about sports more broadly seems poorly conceived.

          As I noted below, most major sports leagues in the US don’t have and, with the exception of baseball, never had rules about gender segregation. Women have always been eligible to play in the NBA, NHL, NFL, etc.

          Are you talking about a specific country or something?