Women can't compete in violent direct contact sports

[packman]

They just are too dainty and don't have enough of that "killer" instinct:

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From Women's World Cup

[Rex]

1. HA!

I will pay someone $100 dollars to tell that to this dainty lady! Only one rule - I have to be there to watch you say it.

[hifiguy]

14. Ronda would break your arm

Strictly for the fun of it if anyone wised off to her like that. She'd have 95% of men screaming for mama in about ten seconds.

[cali]

2. sure they can, but that changes if you throw in mixed gender in some sports

Seriously, a woman linebacker?

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Oh, definitely.

Most sports reward a combination of various physical attributes that are such that males will always have an advantage. That's just basic biology. It doesn't make me like the women's version of most of these sports any less, although to be honest, I'm really only a big fan of football (soccer), with a bit of a nod to motorsports and cycling.

[zappaman]

3. Tell that to my neighbor.

I wouldn't....

[zipplewrath]

4. They never met my sister

She's got 5 older brothers. You don't mess with my "little" sister. More than one boy in school learned that the hard way.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. Technically elbowing people in the face is not meant to be part of football...

You might want to use this illustration in a post entitled "Women can't compete in football, they turn it into a violent direct contact sport". Also, she looks like she may be about to commit a hand ball...

I think your point is better made by the photo of Ronda Rousey, who practices what is *meant* to be a violent direct contact sport, further down the thread.

[packman]

6. Your point is not my point

[snooper2]

7. you mean soccer

[malaise]

8. No it's football

We named it before American football existed.
You don't get to rename our sport.

Obama got that right in Europe last week.

[Orrex]

17. Then you don't get to rename aluminum, because we... Um.

Remind me where I was going with that again?

[alarimer]

19. It was the British who invented the word soccer.

Short for "Association football." It was not an American invention at all. Which was news to me.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/

[malaise]

20. I know

and I also know that it is only called soccer in the US.
It was to differentiate it from a variety of games played at elite schools and universities in the 19th century including the one at Rugby School called Rugby.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I refuse to pander to the whims of benighted colonials!

The word "football" clearly and unambiguously refers to a game played with a "ball" - a spherical object, controlled using the "feet".

The version of rugby popular in the United States of America should clearly be known as "hand-ellipsoid".

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. "pointyball" =P

I usually just say "American football" or "gridiron football" when speaking to people who would assume any use of "football" meant Association football (soccer). Just like I usually say "soccer" here in the US, just to save confusion.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Sure...but hard fouls happen all the time.

Definitely a contact sport. Just not the level of contact you get in rugby, American football, Hockey, or (obviously) MMA and boxing.

[hifiguy]

12. Ronda Rousey would like to have

a word with you.

[Lilith Rising]

15. Now add wheels to the mix!

[DanTex]

16. Sure, but can they dive and roll on the ground and fake injuries as well as men can?

I haven't seen the women master any of these moves:

[Bonx]

18. They obviously can compete with other women.