Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: mjm@ahimsa.intel.COM Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: sports where men/women compete Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 00:17:23 GMT Lines: 46 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu >From: Marjorie Panditji In-Reply-To: <4108.670291834@zola.ics.uci.edu>; from "Cindy Tittle Moore" at Mar 29, 91 4:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1870 [This came up in response to my comment some time back that target shooting was the only sport in which men & women were not segregated. CTM] > That's what I heard. I can tell you right off that equestrian events > are segregated (presumably because of weight differences). I guess the lower class events I was in (at ages 10-14) do not count, but they were not segregated. I admit that this was at a pretty low level of competition. I also remember watching some events for the adults that were not segregated. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember details or even the names of the events. Another sport I can think of is horse racing. I'm sure that there are women jockeys. Any weight differences (whether it is men or women who weigh less) are made up by weights that the jockey has to carry (on the saddle? I'm not sure where). I know that there is a weigh-in before the race for all jockeys. I can't think of the names of any women jockeys, but I know I have read articles about them. And how about drag racing? I'm sure that the famous woman racer (forgot her name, but they made a movie about her) would consider that a sport. Hey, now that I think about it, the Iditarod, the famous dog sled race run in Alaska every year, has been won by Susan Butcher 5 times in a row (or is it 6? did she win this year?). I'm sure that if you restrict the sport to human powered only (no machines or animals involved) there would be fewer instances where men and women compete. But even with this restriction, I can think of one sport: rock climbing. I have watched a few of these events on cable and women and men competed equally. As a novice ex-rock climber, I used to hang out with other climbers in college. The novice women would often advance more quickly than the novice men because they had to learn to use balance and finesse instead of relying on upper body strength. -- Marjorie Panditji, Intel Corporation, (503) 696-2197 mjm@ahimsa.intel.com -or- uunet!intelhf!ahimsa!mjm