Phelps should expect logical and emotion-free responses from this.
You mean like how some cis women are just stronger than other cis women and that gives them an advantage in sports? Or like how everyone at this level uses PEDs and the question is not how strong can you get but how well can you hide your usage?
Does Phelps have an unfair advantage because his arms are longer than average, giving him a more powerful stroke in the water? Is this a logical response or not?
is Phelps an authority on the subject? He is an athlete at Olympics level. Is that any form of credentials though? Is he sitting on the Olympics ethics board? Has he read the literature, talked to the interested parties? Is it unemotional enough to point that out?
Is it unfair that he keeps winning gold medals in swimming, and should he take a backseat to let worse athletes win some too? Should he start chemically limiting himself, or just sit out on some events?
People somehow have a very strong understanding of what is “fair” and “unfair” in sports like it is something that god whispered in their ears.
Taking soccer as an example, people have been complaining for the last decade how teams like Manchester City, PSG and now Newcastle using nothing but their owner’s capital to congregate a team of elite players is “unfair”. Meanwhile all the top teams in all the top leagues have done nothing but build capital that they were able to accrue because of their early success from times when the playing field was relatively more level and use this capital to choke out the smaller teams leading to an extremely stratified hierarchy.
Is it “fair” to give big teams who are already rich a larger portion of the TV revenue than the smaller teams? Somehow it is.
You mean like how some cis women are just stronger than other cis women and that gives them an advantage in sports? Or like how everyone at this level uses PEDs and the question is not how strong can you get but how well can you hide your usage?
Does Phelps have an unfair advantage because his arms are longer than average, giving him a more powerful stroke in the water? Is this a logical response or not?
is Phelps an authority on the subject? He is an athlete at Olympics level. Is that any form of credentials though? Is he sitting on the Olympics ethics board? Has he read the literature, talked to the interested parties? Is it unemotional enough to point that out?
Is it unfair that he keeps winning gold medals in swimming, and should he take a backseat to let worse athletes win some too? Should he start chemically limiting himself, or just sit out on some events?
also there are no scientific evidence this really happens, it’s just terfs being terfs
People somehow have a very strong understanding of what is “fair” and “unfair” in sports like it is something that god whispered in their ears.
Taking soccer as an example, people have been complaining for the last decade how teams like Manchester City, PSG and now Newcastle using nothing but their owner’s capital to congregate a team of elite players is “unfair”. Meanwhile all the top teams in all the top leagues have done nothing but build capital that they were able to accrue because of their early success from times when the playing field was relatively more level and use this capital to choke out the smaller teams leading to an extremely stratified hierarchy.
Is it “fair” to give big teams who are already rich a larger portion of the TV revenue than the smaller teams? Somehow it is.
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