Men's curling is BOOOOOOOOORING

[Speaker to Animals]

Of course, curling is boring- it's literally sweeping the ice with brooms. But the real question is why are men's and women's curling even separate? Are their not co-ed teams in the Olympics?

There is co-ed too.

They are separate so that women can get some medals.

Eh. Winter Olympics don't have as much for women to show off. If any of you bozos tried to do this shit, you'd hit snap city in about 1 second.

[K@th]

I shit you not, gymnastics was my best chapter in high school gym class. We had to do a chapter in everything - like square dancing, fencing, football, gymnastics, weight lifting...

Also decent at volleyball, but I digress.

[Speaker to Animals]

Female gymnasts are absolutely incredible.

My best performance in gym class was long distance running. But my body type changed. I still run 5k 3-4 times per week, but not fast at all.

[Speaker to Animals]

Ballet dancers are pretty incredible too.

[Penner]

Of course, curling is boring- it's literally sweeping the ice with brooms. But the real question is why are men's and women's curling even separate? Are their not co-ed teams in the Olympics?

There was mixed doubles a few days ago.

There are reasons why they are separate. Clubby posted an article a few posts back. Interesting read, they aren't exactly sure, but there are differences in the way the sexes play.

I read that the Olympics are the only place to have a men only and a female only competition. The lower levels seem to be only co-ed:

Unlike many Olympic events, which use the equivalent of ladies’ tees—asking women to jump off smaller hills or skate shorter distances—male and female curlers send the same stones down the same sheet to the same house. (And they score at about the same rate. As of Thursday evening, the men and the women had each played 23 games. An average of 12.56 points were scored in the men’s games, while the women’s average was 13.08 points.)

Co-ed curling is common at the club level, but I could find few examples of elite men’s and women’s teams facing off outside of made-for-TV-type competitions. So while Internet commenters might claim that men’s superior strength means they’d always triumph in a curling battle of the sexes, there’s no entry in the record books that could confirm or deny that theory. Besides, some of the women competing in the Ice Cube this week are full-time curlers whose training regime includes a lot of strength work. According to the AP, 23-year-old Eve Muirhead, the British team captain, “spends as much time lifting weights as she does throwing rocks.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_ci ... women.html


I mean the author of the article still thinks that men only and female only teams are still a good thing but if they are using stones of the same weight then what is the point?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Women are stupid.

[Speaker to Animals]

We watch women's curling literally for the ass. That's it. I don't even have any idea how that game is even played.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I enjoy the game, no matter who's playing. Not sure I'd watch it outside of the Olympics, but it's very entertaining.

[Speaker to Animals]

It actually looks fun to play.

[SuburbanFarmer]

It actually looks fun to play.

Yeah, I'd love to try it some day.