suffra jets wrote:
A couple things wrote:To start with, if we made college sports co-ed there would be next to zero women playing college sports. You might get a freakishly gifted female soccer player or tennis player or something, but in track and field and other objective Olympic sports there would be no women participating. So that needs to be taken off the table.
In track and field, loads of people train hard and compete and know that they will not make it to the Olypmics. Look at all the 29 minute or 28 minute 10k runners from Kenya or the US for example. Just because someone has no chance of making it to the Olympics does not mean that they would not particiapte in the sport.
Having open or co ed sports would be more reflective of the equal rights we have in most other areas in today's society (equal rights for jobs, voting etc ..).
You're wrong. Coed sports would mean exactly that almost no women would be able to participate because they would not make the team. Especially team sports. In a few individual sports they could still run or swim in low key meets but even in those sports they would almost never make the varsity (top 7 in CC, top 2 or 3 per event in track). I guess in your world, going to practice is good enough for women?