Women in Sport

[Steve]

Just to follow on a little bit from another thread, I would ask a simple question about women in certain sports.

Why are they no good (in relative terms) at Snooker?

Now I accept that there have been some very successful female players like Alison Fisher, but they have reached anywhere near the household-name status of players like Ronnie O'Sullivan and Steven Hendry. But, what is it about Snooker that demands a man's phisique or psychie?

Playing snooker does not require physical strength or stamina, so there is no reason why women shouldn't be as good as men at it, so why is the sport dominated by men?

There are other sports that could easily follow the same argument, and some that could easily turn the table (synchronised swimming?).

Why isn't there an equal number of female heli pilots to men at the top of our game?

[Stuart]

Sexism.

Why is that the female human body is actually better suited to flying fast fighter jets yet for years is was considered a male arena.

Because the old farts in the MOD couldn't see the truth for the shit they spat out.

I would look to the big sponsors......I would think that a woman F1 driver would also beat the pants off some of the big names. By why are they not thier - again see the sponors.

Money talks and too many of the big boys are too much up thier own arse to see that by bringing the gender wall down they would actually reap far greater rewards.

[Stuart]

I will also add I've been driven round donnington park by a pro female driver and I hold my hands up and say she can drive far better than me by miles.

[Biggles]

Well without this getting out of control....there have been female f1 drivers....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...la_One_drivers

The reason behind female fighter pilots is purely down to going through all the training ie cost etc then going and deciding they want to have a family!!!

Think of it from an employers point of view...if you were gonna spend thousands upon thousands on training then on completion your employee tells you that they are pregnant.

[Twister]

*yawn* why are we even talking about it?

Women are different to men, men are different to women, it's a fact, live with it, get used to it!

[Stuart]

*yawn* why are we even talking about it?

Women are different to men, men are different to women, it's a fact, live with it, get used to it!

ditto....couldn't agree any more

[Biggles]

*yawn* why are we even talking about it?

Women are different to men, men are different to women, it's a fact, live with it, get used to it!

Are you sure????? LOL

[Cralis]

About th fighter pilots. I believe they can handle much higher G-Forces to men, because of their smaller bodies... I don't think that means they will be better pilots. It's a size thing.

We had a woman driver in our version of Touring Cars here in SA a while back. Drove a pink car. Was cool, but she never did anything...

She had to have a much larger pit area to park.

[Arky]

She had to have a much larger pit area to park.

LMFAO


HEHE made me laff

[SteveH39]

women....kitchen...dinner.....NOW!

Make baby, look after baby, kitchen ..... dinner.... NOW!

what else ?

[Helicopter Girl]

Hi

Swings and roundabouts, where all good at doing something,, i have not got a HGV Licence but i have driven artics back on the farm with 26 ton of corn in,, I do not need a big parking space...LOL..... Michelle.x

[Helicopter Girl]

Mmmmmmmmm

Bog Off,, Bog Off,, Bog Off ,, Bog Off,, Old Fart

[Cralis]

Oh oh...
Sorry, never knew ladies frequented these parts....

[Randall]

Lol my mother is also a Class 1 HGV driver and drives alot of low loaders with massive loads that need escort trucks etc but you would not think it looking at her or talking to her.

Snooker is better played by some one who understands physics and impact on spheres and physics is a male orientated subject, Im not saying that women dont understand it but more men than women do seem to understand physics, Again when it comes to flight understanding the physics of flight will help a pilot no end !

Just my thoughts

[Smoothound]

Because the old farts in the MOD couldn't see the truth for the shit they spat out.

Ah! Another acronym...could easily be replaced with BMFA to go off on a tangent