Photo credit: Traci Bunkers
This weekend I ran a half marathon that was geared towards women. It was actually sort of nice to be in an all-women event, I don’t know how else to describe it other than it felt really relaxed.
How do you feel about gender specific events?
It’s not really an issue for me (a nonparticipant). Having said that, I think Title IX was a really great thing, levelling the playing field (sorry about the sports metaphor) for women’s sports in schools.
For instance, did anybody except l’Empress, John, and me watch the exciting WNBA final game last night?
I only watched part of it; I was rooting for Minnesota and saw that they just didn’t have it. So I switched to “Call the Midwives.” (Is that gender specific?
I always wanted to do some things that girls didn’t do, not because they were hard but because “girls don’t do that.” I did when I could and tried to teach my kids that way. Strangely enough, they sort of reverted. My son (not my daughters) is the mechanical one, though both girls are better at fixing anything than my son-in-law. My boy is also an extremely conscientious parent, who has full care of his daughters when his wife is traveling on business.
Yes, boys can run faster than girls and throw farther. They are also a lot less careful of getting injured. But nothing in our family was gender-specific except child-bearing.
I was in gender-specific sports for years. That was fine.
I don’t do sports, so it is not an issue for me, but I think I would prefer all-girls’ events, if I were to participate.
I don’t like gender specific sports. I enjoy a good game of non gender specific touch football…….or wrestling.