Run for gender equality!

That's why it's a bad idea to do a "gender equality" athletic competition for money. You always just end up proving that athletic men are more physically capable than athletic women. It's 1 of the only 2 things where the biological gender differences are not equal. In evey other aspect of life, gender differences aren't relevant and everyone can be equal.

The other one is singing, right?
- Haha! Yeah that's the one.
  I mean, if you ignore the fact the guys can have very high voices, and girls can have very low ones, and that voice training is a thing that anyone can do, and HRT actually has a pretty big affect on voice...
  But yeah, let's go with that >.>

I mean factor 2 is a bit much but if you want everyone to finish roughly in the same time frame distribution, you either have to do a shorter route or have the women start earlier. Otherwise you will have a decent time gap between male and female race finishers, which looks even worse if u ask me.

Gender equality is usually not about physical performance because everyone knows that there is a gap there that wont go away anytime soon. Its about socioeconomic factors like pay, medical issues, etc

But why have routes based on gender? They could just have had two routes to choose from and let it be up to the individual.
- That’s the way it should have been done. I can fun a 5K in about 40min. I know plenty of woman who kick my ass up and down the street based on that time.
- Because there's a cash prize involved. Many male runners could easily snag the prize that's supposed to encourage women to also participate in sport.
  Yes, you can find plenty logical flaws in this system. But it's a matter of perfect being the enemy of good.
  The hope is that it's better for gender equality to also offer prize money for the fastest of some rather arbitrary group ("women"), because then they have any chance of winning at all.
  The downside is that it leads to all kinds of conflicts, because what in the absolute flying fuck is a woman?
- I mean factor 2 is a bit much but if you want everyone to finish roughly in the same time frame distribution, you either have to do a shorter route or have the women start earlier.
I don’t see the issue in letting everyone run the same 10 km at the same time. A man will probably finish first, so what? Equality is not about being the same, it’s about being equal. You can easily have separate results for men and women. In fact, that’s pretty standard for these kinds of amateur races in my experience. You can also have multiple start times based on self reported running speeds. Also pretty common and avoids slow people being in the way of fast people.
Women are not inherently less physically adept 🤲🤦🏽‍♀️
- Are u one of those "statistics and math are sexist and racist" people? Ask any athletic trans person that is on HRT, they will tell you how much of a difference it makes. Of course there are more and less athletic people and training can get you really far, but there are limits to how far that will take you.

I have never liked the term gender equality. It's too simplified.

Is that what we want not better described by something like "gender freedom" or "gender fairness"

Each to his own desires and pursuit of their own abilities.

There is always "egalitarian", but of you use that people may leap down your throat.

LOL