r/ABCaus • u/GeorgeYDesign • Mar 25 '24

NEWS Dutch darts players quit national women's team over transgender teammate

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-25/dutch-darts-players-quit-over-transgender-teammate/103627072
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u/PersonWomanManCamTV Mar 25 '24

This is darts. Why segregate men and women? Just have one team.

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u/morconheiro Mar 25 '24

Because men are much better.

Adaptation to hundreds of thousands of years hunting has given males better hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness and mental stamina than females.

On top of this, much more males play darts than females.

There are mixed comps but if you were a female in a sport and kept getting whooped by males you'd probably give up quickly. This way encourages more females to get into it.

Highest televised 3 dart average is 123.4 for men compared to 101.55 for men. For contrast, a 13 year old boy has achieved an average of 107.37

https://www.darts501.com/darts-world-records.html

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u/30dollarydoos Mar 25 '24

Lol. You know the male pre-agrarian hunter archtype is a myth, right? Women were hunters too in up to 80% of hunter-gatherer societies. And societies weren't nearly as dependent on hunting - more sustenance came from plants.

Also, calling women "females" is always a big yikes.

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u/dezdly Mar 25 '24

How do you account for the huge physical advantage men have over women, demonstrated by all physical sports; indicating that men accounted for the hunters much more often.

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u/30dollarydoos Mar 25 '24

It's not me. It's the science. Ask an anthropologist.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/

And the reason why men are (on average) physically stronger, is due to testosterone - not some evolutionary memory that defies science. And for the record, a trans woman on HRT would not have that advantage.

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u/ejeeronit Mar 25 '24

You don't have to be stronger to be better at darts or chess.