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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone told one of your son’s female classmates that she throws just like a boy, it would be understood to be a compliment. If someone told one of your son’s male classmates that he throws just like a girl, it would be understood to be an insult. That’s the thinking behind these pro-girl t-shirts. It’s not okay to insult boys because they’re as awesome as girls are, and neither sex should be thought of as inferior, but there was a time when adult women couldn’t own land, couldn’t vote, and were considered to be the property of their husbands. There are still places in the world today where women aren’t allowed to drive, girls are much less likely to attend school, and females have to be accompanied by a male whenever they leave their home.[/quote]

That is because boys, thanks to muscle mass and testosterone, throw faster and stronger on average than girls. So of course a girl “throwing like a boy” is a compliment. It means she is throwing faster and stronger. Because, in average, boys throw faster and stronger. It’s not ideological or mysterious it’s just biology. [/quote]

Uh, no. Those t-shirts say things like “you wish you could throw like a girl.” And it has zero to do with comparisons to boys with more mass and testosterone (which has little to do with throwing a ball WTAF) and everything to do with shared experience of being underestimated or dismissed when in fact girls can make damn fine athletes. Ever seen Jenny Finch strike out Pujols?[/quote]

Men throw faster than women on average - that’s just a fact. [/quote]

But women with throwing experience throw just as well and hard as men. So looking at “on average” only reinforces the notion that doing more to get more girls throwing experience would close the gap.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657012/

“… females with throwing experience reached similar performance as males.”
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The study did not find that women throw just as hard and as well as men at all!

The study was using an online computer game therefore it removed all anatomical and physiological differences (that was one of the goals of the study!). It was a computer set up in a busy museum with an audience during some of the trials. Each participant did 100 throws in the online game. There were gender differences in all areas in participants over 20, those under 20 with throwing experiences had fewer gender differences - but maybe they are just better at online games.... The only metric that did not have a gender difference was the rhythm metric and getting into a throwing rhythm. [/quote]

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