oh and they get a higher handicap too! compared to mens..
why is that?
2007-12-28 14:22:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Men who whine about women in sports are usually upset because THEY are not very good at a sport themselves and are struggling to make the grade that other men around them seem to be better at. They become very unstable and anxious when others rising up in skills approximate their skill level. The problem with those kind of nervous nellies is that they have problems with insecurity. Rather than compete with others, they should focus on competing with just themselves and improving their own game rather than comparing themselves and basing their sense of worth on other people's journeys of competence.
As for handicaps, when I play golf, frequently, the handicaps seem to fall on older men with back or cardiac problems. Handicaps are good sportsmanship. They are an attempt to allow people of various physical states to play the same game together. Not all women need handicaps in amatuer golf. Handicaps routinely allotted to women are related to size and other physiological differences that enable women to play for goals that are different than the goals men are able, as a general average, to reach for. The skills, intelligence and character that goes into golf are enjoyed by people of all sizes, ages and physical limits. What is a limit for a parakeet to fly is not the same limit for a falcon to fly. But, they most certainly can both fly in their own ways and one is not better or "superior" than the other.
Didn't racists get into all this whining stuff back about allowing Blacks to play? It's a character disorder not to enjoy sports and to appreciate efforts made to enable everyone to reach for their own limits and potentials. Although men and women are not "alike", they are equal in the right to achieve whatever their potential is. What would be almost as weird as whiners who resent handicaps would be women demanding that golf courses be designed for their physiology. Come to think of it, why ARE golf courses designed only for male physiology?
It's like when one of my brothers was in middle school. He was over 6'4" at 12 years old. The connected desks and seats combos in his classroom were way too small for him. He was miserable, looked like a gorilla on a tricycle. The school snottily said, hard cheese. The "standard" size desk for students in that grade level were so and so. He'd have to make do. Well, after a quick call from our attorney, they had no problem whatsoever finding him a desk to accomodate HIS physiological needs. He might not have been "alike" the other students. But, he sure as heck had an equal right to an education and comfortable seating. People have to be REALLY stupid to mix up "alike" and "equal". And, people have to be really missing a picket in their clapboard fences to think a classroom, a golf game or a society is supposed to be designed to accomodate only the physiology of one sex. There's no "hard cheese" about it. Not since women got the right to vote.
So, how IS your golf game? Having problems?
2007-12-28 15:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
For those who think strength is tantamount to golf have apparently never played it. The strongest player is often NOT the best.
Golf requires skill, not strength. No matter how far the ball goes, if it doesn't go in the right direction or has the wrong spin, it will cost the player extra strokes to get back to the point they were aiming at.
Women get the special treatment in golf like they do everything else in society simply because they cannot compete with men without artificial aids, laws, rules and regulations.
2007-12-29 02:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by Phil #3 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, I don't understand the logic behind that. Even if they are generally worse than men in golf, they are ALL generally worse than them. So what if the winner of a tourney is above par? she's still the winner. Giving them a par extra, only lets a woman be able to flaunt that she competed the course in less strokes (FALSE) than a man when she didn't (I guess that is all what they want).
But it backfires, because the man can say "yeah, but i get one stroke less than you on par (IE: I'm a MAN), so if you do the maths, im better. Do you really want to be worse than a man because he's a man? (im talking about pro competitors here, I suck at golf and im ok with it).
Tracey: your concepts of a well adjusted men and a dysfunctional one are irrelevant. Men get to decide what men are, not a woman.
2007-12-29 03:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by Optimus Prime 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's an example of sexism that is favourable to us like on the Titanic. Yep, I'm just a poor defnesless woman... women and children on the lifeboats first!!!
It's probably men that created the rule of this in golf, thinking that because women are generally built smaller and thought to be less strong they would need to be nearer?
2007-12-29 01:04:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you really need someone to explain this to you or are you just being facetious? If you have ever watched men and women play golf at all, then you know the answer. Women don't have the upper body strength that men have (or should have) and our drives are not as long .... period.
A gentleman would not question nor be offended by this practice. So be nice, please, and give the ladies a little slack and consideration.
2007-12-28 15:56:52 · answer #5 · answered by thinker02 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"So be nice, please, and give the ladies a little slack and consideration."
Even though women can do anything a man can do. And they just want equal treatment.
LOL, this is too easy...
EDIT "Tracey: your concepts of a well adjusted men and a dysfunctional one are irrelevant. Men get to decide what men are, not a woman."
Absolutely right, Optimus Prime, well said.
Also, if golfers with low upper body strength, short arms etc. should get special consideration, isn't it sexist to offer it only to females with such a disadvantage? Why not offer the same consideration to males with poor upper body strength? Why doesn't NOW protest this practice as subtle sexism? Because they're hypocrites, that's why. To them, sexism that benefits women isn't sexism at all.
2007-12-29 01:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because (as many have mentioned here) women are generally weaker in physical strength than men. Personally I prefer to drive the cart. At least then I am less likely to be hit by flying golf clubs thrown purposely by frustrated men.
2007-12-28 15:57:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
In most cases, men are physically stronger than women. But I am sure that if you ask your golfing buddies, they will allow you to tee from the women's box and give you the women's par and handicap.
Good luck!
2007-12-28 15:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't know because I don't play golf. I live less than a mile from a golf course and have yet to set foot on it.
2007-12-28 17:41:14 · answer #9 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shorter arms.
What fun...it's so easy to separate the well adjusted men from the dysfunctional head case males on here just by reading the answers.
2007-12-29 01:25:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because their male playing partners aren't stupid. Use your imagination.
2015-02-28 07:21:05 · answer #11 · answered by Hollywood 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋