Any Olympic Games with the Russians competing.
Gender test for any first place over $199......
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You better hope he doesn't read this. That was such a hurtful thing to say.
It doesn't require a ton of strength to play pool, but that doesn't mean that having more strength won't help. It's like driving a porsche versus a vw bug. The bug is going to be taxed going sixty, but the porsche will barely be breathing. More strength is helpful throughout the spectrum.
Next there is simply the talent pool. I think we can all agree that waaaay more men play pool than women. Thus, there is a much greater chance that the best natural male talent is playing than there is that the best female talent is playing. There are likely many women who have never played more than a handful of games who would have been amazing players. The same can be said for men, but to a lesser extent.
Then you add in the fact that men generally have better straight-on vision while women have better peripheral vision. This comes from when the men hunted and the women gathered. This is a likely reason that skills diminish at middle age. I have had perfect vision all my life, but my eyes have started focusing slower.
There really are huge differences between the sexes that skew the performance level. I thoroughly believe that a woman like Karen Corr who is close to able to stand with the top men is an anomaly we likely won't see again in the next 20 years.
All I know is that I would make one ugly woman.
Don't be so hard on yourself. I'd f*ck you.
That's racially insensitive!
Depending upon who is conducting the test this could be a big boost for pool.
Test Me! Test Me!
Themselves. It's no one else's business.
I appreciate how passionate you are about this, but it can't be like that. There are many people that are looking for ways to exploit things. There has to be some form of regulation.
Better be on the look out for these drag hustlers, coming to a women's tournament soon
They'd all get it...
That's been proven somewhere? Must have missed the article or research on this one. I don't care one way or the other, but is this a "fact" or one lone opinion from a pool guy on the internet ?
Cello is full of it. There is very little overall difference of intelligence in men and women.
Men do tend to have much higher spatial intelligence which measures the ability to visualize shapes, angles, and patterns.
Hmmmm
I get the exploitation point and I do not disagree. I just don't think demonizing or humiliating a person, just to find out if they are biologically as they claim, is the best approach. It's a lady's tourney so let the ladies figure it out and decide what they will. That's all I am saying.
I agree completely. That tour has nothing to do with me, so I would expect the ladies organization to handle things appropriately. I just can't stand people who hide behind sensitive issues for personal gain.
Nah, the differences are very small, and distributional, i.e., tons of men have worse spatial abilities than tons of women, even if the average male scores are slightly higher than the average female score.
The only large gender differences in behavior are in sexuality (men are total sluts) and aggression, which are both linked to testosterone.
Maybe any pool-playing gender differences are related to aggression, in terms of competitiveness, rather any kind of innate skill.
And you disagree with someone allowed to compete as a male if they were born female? Should we pull down the pants of every winner of every tournament, just to be sure?
If you don't think checking the winner's gender (trans or no) isn't humiliating, then I don't even know what to tell you. If someone pulls down my pants, they're gonna do more than look at it.
Perfectly said.