Question: Should female athletes be allowed to compete in male professional sports?
Primary Issue: (as affirmative action would approach this situation)
That it is said to be sexually discriminatory not to allow females to compete in male pro-sports.
Critical Consideration Points:
– Male pro-sports such as hockey, football and wrestling are full body contact sports. There is a definite ethical concern in supporting (or even allowing) co-ed full body contact sports.
– A great majority of pro-sports are male dominated due not only to historical determinants such as more male athletes but also audience considerations (such as male hockey tends to be a little faster with a bit more physical action, etc
). Also, that until fairly recently, that a great majority of corporate structure (thus team ownership and team management) tended to be predominantly male influenced (thus allowing for female athletes in male sports being ignored if not otherwise really awkward).
– That all female sports leagues do not seem to entice the same audience engagement (although this evaluation is not necessarily fair due to conceivabilities such as NHL did not have the audience it has today when it was starting out).
– The reason that many sports (both professional and amateur) have categorical separation (including biological sex, weight classes and even age classes) is that the very nature of sports being sporting basically requires some level of physical based classification in order to ensure that sufficient fairness is available within competition as well as to prevent free-for-all situations and highly unsporting conceivabilities.
THREE STEPS TO OUTLINING THE “NANG KERNEL”:
The primary locus or focus about what the specific, literal issues by relation technically (actually) are.
1: The “nang factor”:
1. It is unfair to females (especially interested in competition sports that they are unable to play at a professional level merely due to societal constraints.
– In response to this, affirmative action has tried to place females on male teams which is inappropriate for several reasons.
– Another response to this consideration has been to make female only pro-sports leagues which have not done well economically.
2. It would be appropriate to have females competing in pro-ports leagues somehow.
– Females (however) cannot play contact sports at a professional level with males as it is inappropriate.
– Female only pro-sports leagues have not retained the audience required for salary and profit.
2: Crux of this “nang”:
Females ought to be able to play in professional level competition sports; females can not appropriately play in body contact sports with males at a professional level and something needs to happen to validate enough interest in female pro-sports to generate enough internal economy to validate the process.
As you can clearly see, the specifically focused kernel of the nang as (easily) two or three different angles in terms of a locus of focal points which (each) can be related to individually in such a way as to validate a specifically appropriate, well focused solution that matches the complexity of the problem instead of just delivering a contrarian position.
3: Resolution Points:
1. There should be some kind of process or function that allows females to play in pro-sports
2. This process or function can not allow females to compete with males in contact sports at a professional level.
3. Something has to validate that the players receive salaries and to validate that the league in which the females are playing is economically feasible.