I think the upsetting thing about this is that sports are supposed to be the ultimate meritocracy. In sports, and really any competition, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you came from. The only thing that matters is what you do during the sporting event (game, match, meet, race, lift, etc.) And so success in sports is so easily, so purely defined: you won or you lost.
Shit like this isn’t supposed to happen in sports. You are not supposed to be rewarded for failure. Save the participation trophies for children, and get them the fuck out of the goddamn Olympics. I don’t care that this person is trans. The only reason this person made the news, and was subsequently given this award, is because of who she is. Again, that’s not what sports are about. This person lost at the Olympics in an extremely thorough and embarrassing fashion. If this person had any self-respect they’d turn down the award or give it to someone else.
Individual male sports are meritocracy. Team sports allow room for affirmative action picks and for women sports are not exactly about merit, if it was a meritocracy then they would be competing along side men.
Meritocracy would be the best win no matter any other factors. Fact is that if they did that then very few women would be competing. In order to give women place at the table we created the women sport categories.
That is special treatment, not meritocracy.
Case in point, for esports, chess, racing and math you have mixed gender competitions and women competition, there is no men only competition.
I think the upsetting thing about this is that sports are supposed to be the ultimate meritocracy. In sports, and really any competition, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you came from. The only thing that matters is what you do during the sporting event (game, match, meet, race, lift, etc.) And so success in sports is so easily, so purely defined: you won or you lost.
Shit like this isn’t supposed to happen in sports. You are not supposed to be rewarded for failure. Save the participation trophies for children, and get them the fuck out of the goddamn Olympics. I don’t care that this person is trans. The only reason this person made the news, and was subsequently given this award, is because of who she is. Again, that’s not what sports are about. This person lost at the Olympics in an extremely thorough and embarrassing fashion. If this person had any self-respect they’d turn down the award or give it to someone else.
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Dangit, I was trying to avoid using any pronouns at all.
Just use "it".
It's all-inclusive.
Individual male sports are meritocracy. Team sports allow room for affirmative action picks and for women sports are not exactly about merit, if it was a meritocracy then they would be competing along side men.
Meritocracy would be the best win no matter any other factors. Fact is that if they did that then very few women would be competing. In order to give women place at the table we created the women sport categories. That is special treatment, not meritocracy.
Case in point, for esports, chess, racing and math you have mixed gender competitions and women competition, there is no men only competition.