Last night I was watching the women compete in the vault exercise and watched as one gymnast stopped her run and returned for a second try. I was surprised to hear that females are allowed to stop in their run, but males are not. Why?
The Olympic rules state that a female gymnast can stop or break a run before touching the springboard without a deduction as long as they return to the end of the runway within thirty seconds. However, a male gymnast will receive a score of 0 if they do not vault once they start running.
I cannot see any justification for the differentiation (and more favorable rule for females). I am not rushing to file a discrimination lawsuit, but does anyone have a reason other than tradition or arbitrary treatment?
idealist707, That is the rub. My mantra, as a libertarian, is we need to penetrate the duopoly. That scares the lemmings and entrenches the status quo. What’s a free thinker to do? Maybe I’m just out of my league. Let’s ask Blouise.
I think the more important question would be “who cares?” every sport has its stupid rules & this is just one more. Why do men perform on the parallel bars & rings while women perform on the uneven bars and beam? Its something to do I suppose.
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id707
do they use daylight savings time in europe?
Woosty,
“idealist, women stand the consequences even when they don’t say yes…..so do men. It is the consequences that are different in so many ways….”
YES.
And it is indeed worth a lifetime, several if possible, studying these consequences. I listen to your voices and learn so very little. Soul enrichment all of it.
After this comes simplicities from me: both sides are scarcely aware, etc.
Only said in tribute to women. What we may learn if we try will help us all.
We being we men.
Nick Spinelli,
I can not know—but it concerns us all.
Is Obama:
—-a liar
—-a figurehead
—-a totally corrupt politician, bought like the rest?
Does it matter? We can not trust him. And maybe he will do us less harm than Romney.
The wonder is what the Time article says: 52% favor pot legalization or rather decriminalization of it.
What a wondrous thing that is. The people have turned there back, apparently, on all pressures applied by the war on drugs. Let us go forward on that front, a point well-made by the Time article with 10 half page points on why we should.
The BIG idea is that this illuminates our possibility to go forward on other issues. Not by national organized rebellion, we need no MLKjr, we can do it ourselves.
We can say no to war. And no to many other things.
And in the end they will have to let us have our way.
As yet we are not serfs.
Nor in Ft Leavenworth.
Woosty,
Thank you for demonstrating once again that you can go a layer deeper. So encouraging to have a fellow speleologist on my journeys. Particularly, one who has such an acute eye and mind.
Lead on! I glsdly follow those who will lead.
idealist707, The NORML California branch put out a powerful advertisement showing an interview w/ Obama the candidate saying while he was not going to expend political capital on legalizing cannabis, he certainly would not use the limited resources of the Justice Dept. to prosecute in states where it’s legal. Then he did just that in 2011. What a liar.
“Once she has said yes, she stands the consequences.” idealist707
idealist, women stand the consequences even when they don’t say yes…..so do men. It is the consequences that are different in so many ways….
From Time. Just so you know.
“For the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use: 56%, according to the most recent Rasmussen poll. Support for legalization has been growing steadily since the 1990s; in 1994, just 25% were in favor.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/14/10-reasons-to-revisit-marijuana-policy-now/?iid=hl-article-special-reports-widget#americans-increasingly-favor-reform#ixzz22nZYrBgQ
Okay, how about this one for justice:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184288/Lawyer-shoots-dead-sister-honour-killing-middle-Pakistan-courtroom.html#ixzz22nFADdAa
Lawyer shoots dead his own sister in ‘honour killing’ in packed courtroom ‘because he was opposed to her marriage’
“A woman scorned…..”(or denied)!
I think it is a question of weaker over body strength and injury problems—-just guessing.
Besides we know that Nature is cruel to women.
Once she has said yes, she stands the consequences.
Men just walk. Ho hum, where is something new happening.
JT:
Wow! First you question the propriety of dressage and now a woman’s prerogative to — as Dredd says — “change her mind.”
I’ll make up the guest room for you once Leslie hears about all this.
Stupid rule. It should be the same for both males and females.
Women have the right to change their minds.
OS how sweet is that? ((*_*))
os, you’re a gem.
This issue is not on my radar however equality is equality…….. I had countless women work for me over the years and this was the policy which worked the best for my company and certainly made my life easier….. lol
bettykath,
You are right. Women are special, just ask this dad who was married 55 years to the same beautiful and intelligent woman, and who has two daughters. Did I mention that I did my damnedest to spoil all three of them?
women are special.
It’s seems to be an imaginary rule…… It didn’t happen the way you think you saw it…… Got it….. You’re just supposed to look the other way….. Maybe that road trip did more to your eyes than you know…..