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[QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2462806, member: 6819"]
I have no problem [B]msf22b [/B]with what you said and how you phrased it.  What you said was your opinion.  The problem is, to me, societal body types and prejudicies have no relevance in sports.  Sports is a society apart.  Yes, women have been stigmatized and body shamed unmercifully in western society.  It's been criminal.  But that has little to nothing to do with IBW's and DWR's for maximum efficiency in sports.  These have to do with the impact ratio's on body frames and weight bearing joints which can hinder high performance and which can create further health issues down the road.  Some of them serious.

If we were talking about weight lifting you could have easily said such a person needs to gain weight and no one would have batted an eye.  Yet when someone questions whether someone needs to lose weight in a sport where there is high impact on a persons joints and vertebrae, where speed and quickness are the tender most desired, I believe you are intitled to that opinion.  We cannot, in my opinion, ask that everyone treat women athletes the same as men, but in this one area we incline or turn our heads.  To me this, though mild, is a form of hypocrisy.
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