We have guests staying over, so yesterday I watched several episodes of a reality TV show where teams of regular people compete in physical activities, such as climbing, obstacle courses, jumping, etc.
The show routinely pits all-male teams against all-female ones. Every single time, women lose most abjectly. They don’t just lose, they are creamed. It’s painful to watch.
Anybody can predict this will happen because there are male and female sports for a reason. But everybody on the show behaves like this competition makes sense and enacts surprise every time women lose by a trillion points. I even had to explain to Klara why the result is predetermined. And that at her age, girls’ teams do often win against boys’ teams, which will end by 8th grade. And that this is OK because different bodies are made for different reasons.
somehow this is better to me than all the phony fiction TV shows and movies that show women easily defeating men. 🙄
Amanda
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I agree. We’ve had several decades of shows portraying tiny women beating up huge men, and it’s got to stop because it retrains our brain in a way that can get us into grave danger.
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