Peoplekind wrote:
J.T. wrote:
Tuohy’s performance is proof that there should not be separate boy and girl categories. That arbitrary separation was put in place by the patriarchy in order to keep women down.
There should only be one category. Peoplekind.
I'll take the likely troll bait.
Tuohy is such an outlier, clearly an amazing runner, that'd it'd be unfair to her to not get the glory of crushing the girls field, and would relegate girls running to most of the time never making Varsity. Lookit any of the NxN caliber teams that run - hell, Loudouns fr/so boys placed their scoring fr/so 5 ahead of their #1 Varsity girl this weekend.
Running as "people" would, however, remove the problem of 'boys who want to be girls (which is fine) but then want to compete as girls (which is unfair to cis-girls ).'
She is an outlier, because girls have been told that they are too slow to compete against boys.
Hasay was the inspiration for Cain, Cain was the inspiration for Efraimson, who was the the inspiration for Rainsberger/Murphy/Aragon, who then inspired Oakley. Now we have Tuohy.
If girls ran against boys and believed that they could compete, they would be much better.
Cain/Efraimson/Rainsberger/Murphy... is not coincidental. It’s very much psychological. Who knows how many more Tuohys are out there.