Why do we still commonly sexually segregate sports teams?

Question

While it's generally well-accepted that many more men will be interested and competent in most sports than women, each level of sports (amateur, high school, college, and professional) still contains its share of female athletes who are competitive with the top men.

So why aren't more professional teams co-ed? Isn't sexual segregation of sports based on the fact that more men are competitive than women like racial segregation of basketball because more of the most competent players are black rather than white? Do we just segregate them because it's the way it's always been done, and no one has bothered to change it? Or is there some valid, non-bigoted reason for still having men's leagues and women's leagues with no overlap?

Answer 1

Who said forcing sexes together is a good thing?  I think sport is thankfully one of the last places feminism hasn't stuck its meddling, standard-lowering nose into.

Answer 2

Because some semblance of common sense still exists.

It's based off of the fact that men are larger and more muscular than women. I doubt a co-ed NFL or NHL would work too well.

Not even going into the legal issues, like potential law suites.

Answer 3

Dude, have you ever played a co-ed sport? I've played rec baseball with some pretty competitive dudes for a while now...let's just say I think we all agree that segregated sports works for us.

:D

Answer 4

Guys would be too big strong fast ect for women to compete.

Seriously, that's just the way it is. It's the same reason men don't pop out the kids.

Answer 5

True equality wouldn't have seperate leagues. I believe if you make the team you make the team gender nonwithstanding. Let the chips lay where they fall. If your team is 99 percent or 1 percent either gender so be it. Equality is just that.

50 percent of the population is women yet why are womens sports a ratings failure. I don't know. I know there are women who could easily compete. So why don't they. Why have a seperate league.

Another thing that irks me is like the woman who made it a big deal that she almost made it in the PGA had she it wouldn't have been a problem. Yet can a guy join the LPGA, nope.

What blows my mind is non physical 'sports' there is a womens poker tour? Yet the standard tour is both as it should be. Equal, not equal and seperate.  

Answer 6

Do you know how many slam dunks have been made in the WNBA? 2!! I know this because it made the news that a woman made a slam dunk! Even the top players in the WNBA couldn't beat out the bench warmers in the NBA

How about football? They don't even have a serious Women's version of the sport to draw women athletes from, ITs not a social Construct, its biology

Answer 7

On a professional level it would probably be okay for co-ed teams, but I've played with guys, and they always assume (at first) that they are better than me.  Since guys are generally larger, and taller, they often have an advantage.  However, they are not always better.  There's nothing comparable to that huge male ego.

Answer 8

Overlapping would NEVER work.. I've played Coed softball for church league and that hardly works. Guys should play with Guys an Girls with Girls. Guys are stronger than girls, and wayyy more competitive!

Answer 9

NO

guys are naturally better than girls at sports

i think its great at the rec level (as i participate in soccer at this level)

but most sports, minus golf (which isn't a sport in my book) i don't see being very interested having a co ed, such as football, soccer, basketball, and it defintely won't make baseball interesting to me

i am sorry, but pro sports would just not be interesting

Answer 10

Men and women can't be competitive playing together at most sports, especially at higher levels.  This is why Annika Sorenstam, arguably the greatest female golfer that ever lived, couldn't make the cut against the men at Colonial a few years ago.  Does that mean she's a bad player?  Of course not.  It just means that the top women just can't compete with the top men, generally speaking.

Answer 11

It's really more a matter of public safety rather than artificial discriminatory practice.

Answer 12

Some guys are that aggressive they wont have a problem hitting a girl

Some guys are built like tanks that would squash a women flat

I would think the amount of sexual abuse would increase due to some guys being very dodgy getting a quick feel

Answer 13

As for high school and middle school and below, idk. Generally men and women are equal then at sports. Pro sports definitely should be separated, but college maybe in some departments of sports such as soccer, track, b-ball etc. could be together, too, could be coed because it's not really until pro sports that you really start to see much of a difference between men and women in sports.

I agree, too, with m g.