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Men being slightly stronger on average than women has a LOT to do with culture.
When I was a kid, girls weren't even allowed to do the same calisthenics in school. There was severe social opprobrium for women doing strength training, learning martial arts, etc.
This is one of the things about the patriarchy, the things it enforces are seen as natural. Women are put in clothes that limit their mobility, beauty standards demand frailness, etc.
Imagine believing this in 2026. There’s a reason most sports are separated by gender and it certainly isn’t “culture”.
The fact that there are things called "sports" and "genders" is cultural my peer.
No, those are words for things that occur in nature, across many animal species.
If they were a law of nature, society wouldn't have to punish people who "do sports and/or gender wrong"
Then what about animals’ genders and sports? Are they not natural?
What sports and genders do animals do? Give examples.
That animals have genders I don’t think is something that can be denied.
Many animals (for example smarter birds, such as crows and magpies) perform “for-fun physical activities” such as sliding and flipping, often in group. According to most dictionaries, that counts as a sport.
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