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Feminists. Since when did women not have the right to exercise?

Title IX came into effect in 1972.

So, it must mean on a national level not a school level. I was told by a feminist on here it came into effect so that women could have the right to exercise and play sports.

"Title IX is about women having the same opportunities as men to exercise and have an equal education - you must really hate women if you want to deny them that as a woman yourself! If women are restricted from exercising and getting a decent education it not only does not make women strong - but it makes women weak and unhealthy and society too and their women s babies will pay too - everyone will. What do you want for women - seriously? - that they are locked up in cages and kept ignorant? I can t imagine a woman as hateful and ignorant as that!

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  • 5 years ago

    Women just don't want to exercise. Men are the more self-disciplined gender in that regard and in many others. You don't need to play sports or lift weights to exercise. As a matter of fact, women who do these things are grossly unattractive. It's disgusting to see a woman who has the strength of a 10 year old boy strutting around calling herself an athlete and trying to look and act like a man. All men ask is that women not eat like a goddamn hippo every day and take care of themselves in the fitness department enough to maintain a healthy weight (115-120 lbs for an average height of 5'6 to 5'8). Taking care of her health is all it takes for a woman to look like a Victoria's Secret angel.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    title ix doesn't give either men or woman a right to exercise. It now has a three pronged compliance test in sports. To comply, most schools have cut men's sports denying males, not females the opportunity to exercise. Female dominated exercise programs such as aerobics do not fall under this compliance standard so females are not cut there. Females far out number males in those programs so overall there are more exercise spots for women than for men at most schools.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Women have ALWAYS had the RIGHT to exercise and/or participate in sports. They might have been limited from participating in male-dominant sports [for obvious reasons] but even then, they had their own leagues to participate and compete in. Title IX didn't give them the "right to exercise."

    Title IX is controversial for other reasons, because it's geared to cut funding and facilities in male-dominated sports ONLY because women aren't interested in sports. Title IX, because of the way it's designed, was implemented to give women sports facilities that were hitherto dominated by men, to provide a "safe space" for women. For example, swimming: more men than women were into this sport, and hence some women were supposedly feeling "dominated" or "intimidated" because there were men in the pool. Title IX specifies that women-only pools be established to encourage women swimmers, and on top of that, it mandates that women-only bathrooms and women-only lockers are setup in swimming pool facilities, not to mention there must be people [especially women] hired to look guard their facilities and locker rooms.

    All this is well and good, except, Title IX is draconian in how it's implemented. Because of it's 3-pronged compliance requirements, sports facilities for male-dominated sports are being shut down, or denied funds simply because there aren't enough women in such sports. On top of that, women-only sports are not affected at all. This is discrimination, and sexist bias, and this is the problem that non-feminists are complaining about.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    There is no such thing as a right to exercise, for either gender. Because anyone can go do exercise any time they want.

    Title IX is just says that any school program cannot discriminate based on gender.

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  • Bob B
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Clearly this law was about the "right to exercise". It was, however, about the right to engage in competitive supports and have their achievements recognised in the same was as men did. I'm not particularly fussed about competitive sports myself, but they are a big part of modern culture and attract considerable attention, so I completely understand what both genders would want equal rights to compete.

  • 5 years ago

    Title IX was needed because without it, women could not live up to their physical potential. For most of history, women were barred from tasks that required physical capabilities and were not recognized as equally capable to men, physically. Men may have slightly more upper body strength than women (and be able to pee in the woods rather than waiting for a bathroom), but women have vastly more lower body strength and flexibility. Thanks to feminism, women are beginning to use their physical potential.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Feminists are basically trolling humanity now with their hateful rhetoric and double standards, no one could actually be that ignorant and bigoted.

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