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Originally Posted by Mr V
Certainly there would be an uproar over that.
However the fact is that in many teams pit and drive crews are often dominated by males, not necessarily males only but often mainly males.
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Relevance? In my mind both types of events are equally sexist. If you are telling someone they can't participate based on some criteria they were born with it is disgusting to me. What's next? Only students of Asian heritage are allowed to compete at an event?
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Originally Posted by Mr V
These girls only events encourage them to take on those roles w/o the worry of "not being as good at it as the boys" and not feeling that they have to "fight" to get the right to participate in those area.
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As opposed to in the real world where they will have to "fight" to get the right to participate in those areas. We're not doing anyone favors setting up little playgrounds where everyone gets to feel special.
Of course, as a white male I
don't know anything about this topic...