Gender equity!? Barriers for women's steeple set at men's height!!!

great wrote:

This is fascinating. Only Coburn noticed it and gestured to the officials but after 2 laps it's still at wrong height.

hahahahaha AT LAST!!!!!! :D

Ask Nicole Bush how she feels about that.

Great thread title. Very clever.

https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/1004794141635559424

Emma Coburn tells norwegian television that her husband had to go to the officials to make them change it.

It's like the guys race having a 42" steeple hurdle.

If Coburn only cared about the win, and not her time, I bet it would have been to her advantage to leave it at 36" - given her height and technique.

Equality until hard work starts

How is this gender equity when the average American woman is 6" shorter than the average American male? (Same difference as the difference in steeple barrier heights.)

Les wrote:

How is this gender equity when the average American woman is 6" shorter than the average American male? (Same difference as the difference in steeple barrier heights.)

Because this is Letsrun dot com where it's been normalized to make jokes about inequality when men have obvious advantages over women. This website finds it funny or would say that it's just a small joke when in reality it's problematic to start a thread with this title in the first place.

Les wrote:

How is this gender equity when the average American woman is 6" shorter than the average American male? (Same difference as the difference in steeple barrier heights.)

Emma Coburn - 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)

Paul Kipsiele Koech (3rd fastest man ever) - 5 ft 6.5 in (170 cm)

The barriers should be the same height for men and women.

It is more of a function of velocity. Women's barriers should be 10% or 3.6" shorter (call it 32") instead of 30".

Kind of weird how in a metric sport, hurdle/barrier heights are in imperial units (inches).

Women are lighter on average so it is easier to lift less body mass over a given steeple barrier which compensates for the slight height difference. Try strapping a few pounds to your back and then try the steeple if you think this is not true. Besides track and field especially distance running should be just one category with no division in the sexes. That is the only true form of gender equality.

NERunner053 wrote:

Les wrote:

How is this gender equity when the average American woman is 6" shorter than the average American male? (Same difference as the difference in steeple barrier heights.)

Because this is Letsrun dot com where it's been normalized to make jokes about inequality when men have obvious advantages over women. This website finds it funny or would say that it's just a small joke when in reality it's problematic to start a thread with this title in the first place.

+1. Too many LetsRun posters are entirely comfortable with casual bigotry of all kinds. This isn’t me calling all people who make (or tolerate) these posts awful people, but rather just pointing out that the climate on these boards pretty tough for people from many non-dominant groups.

rthetyj wrote:

The barriers should be the same height for men and women.

Look at the percentage difference between record times in the mens 3k vs the mens 3k steeple and womens 3k and womens 3k steeple and then make your judgement. The women's barriers are at a reasonable height. Coburn is also a 90%+ height female whereas the Kenyan you mentioned is a 20% or so male in terms of height.

NERunner053 wrote:

Les wrote:

How is this gender equity when the average American woman is 6" shorter than the average American male? (Same difference as the difference in steeple barrier heights.)

Because this is Letsrun dot com where it's been normalized to make jokes about inequality when men have obvious advantages over women. This website finds it funny or would say that it's just a small joke when in reality it's problematic to start a thread with this title in the first place.

EVERYONE ON LETSRUN NEEDS TO READ THIS.

joedirt wrote:

rthetyj wrote:

The barriers should be the same height for men and women.

Look at the percentage difference between record times in the mens 3k vs the mens 3k steeple and womens 3k and womens 3k steeple and then make your judgement. The women's barriers are at a reasonable height. Coburn is also a 90%+ height female whereas the Kenyan you mentioned is a 20% or so male in terms of height.

And yet he is 3rd all-time...

Of course they should be the same height. In fact its sexist to have men and women segregated

So many great SJW buzzwords in this thread:

[x] "equity"

[x] "normalized"

[x] "problematic"

[x] "casual bigotry"

[x] "dominant groups"

Should be one of those bingo games

letsrun chauvinists wrote:

NERunner053 wrote:

Because this is Letsrun dot com where it's been normalized to make jokes about inequality when men have obvious advantages over women. This website finds it funny or would say that it's just a small joke when in reality it's problematic to start a thread with this title in the first place.

EVERYONE ON LETSRUN NEEDS TO READ THIS.

What are the obvious advantages men have over women?