darakan@lemm.eeM to Animation@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 months agoDisney reportedly pulls Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode over trans athlete storywww.polygon.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down13cross-posted to: transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zoneshowsandmovies@lemm.eetelevision@lemmit.online
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkDisney reportedly pulls Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode over trans athlete storywww.polygon.comdarakan@lemm.eeM to Animation@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zoneshowsandmovies@lemm.eetelevision@lemmit.online
minus-squareknightly [none/use any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·3 months agoCounterpoint: competitive sports should never have been gender-segregated in the first place.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoIf that happened, then 99% of women couldn’t ever play most competitive sports. There would only be men in sports.
minus-squareknightly [none/use any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThat seems to be the case already given the viewership disparity for womens’ sports.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoDisparity for sure, but it’s still popular enough to have some fans and it also gets a lot of girls into college.
Counterpoint: competitive sports should never have been gender-segregated in the first place.
If that happened, then 99% of women couldn’t ever play most competitive sports. There would only be men in sports.
That seems to be the case already given the viewership disparity for womens’ sports.
Disparity for sure, but it’s still popular enough to have some fans and it also gets a lot of girls into college.