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Can mens sport be referred to as mens sport from now on?

  • 04-06-2021 5:49pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,762 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    National sporting bodies in this country have stopped referring to womens teams as being womens teams and instead referring to them as just the Irish Rugby team, Irish Soccer team etc so that they are valued as equal to the mens. This is getting incredibly confusing and a bloody pain in the hole when you hear events annoounced you don't know who is playing.

    Can we instead offload the term Irish team to the women and instead refer to all sport involving men as the Irish Mens team?

    Glad to get that off my chest :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Fils


    Have you any thing else to be thinking about on a bank holiday weekend besides that scour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    You should be able to tell when the players are male or female when the event starts .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,301 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    So what you're saying is...
    If I take my 16st 6'5" 41yo retired second row self upto my local ladies team?
    It'd would have to be Shannon unfortunately as I don't think Thomond have a ladies team :( but I'd learn to cope with the change, in both my team and my gender...
    And it's not like I'd be joining St Mary's! :eek: that's a step too far like!

    But anyway I can wander over to Shannon RFC identify as a woman, play a few games and then get picked for the 2022 6 nations and dominate the Sasnach?
    And get that IRFU cap I always felt I deserved?

    Well call me mrsBanie01 as I'm off to earn the plaudits my penis obviously denied me :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭Government buildings


    What will happen in the future is that you won't have men's teams or women's teams.

    For reasons of equality, all teams will have to consist of both men and women.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    What will happen in the future is that you won't have men's teams or women's teams.

    For reasons of equality, all teams will have to consist of both men and women.

    Do most sports actually exclude women from competing with men? I think I read somewhere before that women are more than welcome to compete against men in athletics and the gender exclusion only prevents men from entering ladies events. Could well be BS but made sense to me at the time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,799 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    There's no rule that says your goal kicker cannot be a donkey....
    12-12-gus.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It's all well till you hear the transwomens team are playing,
    Not the men's ,or women's but the men who self identify as womens team


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,018 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    National sporting bodies in this country have stopped referring to womens teams as being womens teams and instead referring to them as just the Irish Rugby team, Irish Soccer team etc so that they are valued as equal to the mens. This is getting incredibly confusing and a bloody pain in the hole when you hear events annoounced you don't know who is playing.

    I agree on the grounds that I object to the incorrect use of 'The'

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,616 ✭✭✭grogi


    You should be able to tell when the players are male or female when the event starts .

    Unless team from East Germany plays...


  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Ezekiel Tight Comic


    Gatling wrote: »
    It's all well till you hear the transwomens team are playing,
    Not the men's ,or women's but the men who self identify as womens team

    The men whose brain more resemble the female brain.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭Government buildings


    Mens' teams vs transwomens' teams would be a fair contest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭85603




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,381 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    This thread is not for AH op. Closed


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