I'm not particularly a fan of Piers but it's a fair question ......

[Brigadier]

There are categories for those who are too small or not good enough in some sports. Boxing, rowing, judo all have weight categories. Weight lifting has competitions where your body weight is a factor as well, probably loads more. Edit: football with under 21s or sports with veterans categories.

I like the idea of having category upon category upon category, with ever-tighter restrictions for each.
So much so, in fact, that I would be the only person who could qualify for one of them. Call it the "Brigadier" category

I could set world records, advertise Muller yoghurts, deny knowledge of how such-and-such drug got into my wee; that sort of thing

 

[Brigadier]

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[IT Minion]

So, we don't need separate women's events in those cases.


Piers had one.


That's the point. It's not fair.

Banning people just because they are {whatever} is discrimination.

People complaining about discrimination ( in a technical sense of the word) are idiots. Why should we even discriminate against people who won or lose a race, or even if they take part.

Identifying if a bottle is bleach or Fanta is discrimination and very useful as a survival mechanism. Discrimination without a good reason isn't.

Morgan is a classic example of the sort of person who will go on a rant about discrimination, trying to conflate the stupidity of objecting to all discrimination with objecting to unfair discrimination.

 

[IT Minion]

Bet his voice ain't up to much these days, having been deceased now for over 12 years, he almost certainly is a rotten singer now.

I will grant you I haven't been keeping up with the changes in the world of Opera and ice-cream marketing. Even more unfair if he wins though.

 

[EFLImpudence]

People complaining about discrimination ( in a technical sense of the word) are idiots. Why should we even discriminate against people who won or lose a race, or even if they take part.

What?

Identifying if a bottle is bleach or Fanta is discrimination and very useful as a survival mechanism.

Not if you are using the technical sense.

Discrimination without a good reason isn't.

It was the good reason that was being discussed.

Morgan is a classic example of the sort of person who will go on a rant about discrimination, trying to conflate the stupidity of objecting to all discrimination with objecting to unfair discrimination.

He wasn't.

 

[IT Minion]

So, we don't need separate women's events in those cases.

Just to drill into this point, in some sports I believe the categorisation is just based on height or weight or experience. Sailing for example.

Let's not forget that sports and wider society used to be a pretty crappy place for women and still is some of the time. In those cases if women wanted to take part at all then separate competitions were needed. In other cases men wouldn't / won't let Women compete with them.

There's still sports that don't allow women to take part in the same courses or competitions as men for no clear reason. Running was one example where Women weren't allowed to run the Marathon because, well, because!

Theres a lot of details in this topic.

 

[IT Minion]

He wasn't.

How odd, normally he's a blowhard who tries to make everything all about him. I can't watch the video so can't comment.

 

[EFLImpudence]

He was saying that he does not think transgender men should compete in women's sport because it is unfair on the natural women.

Nandy would not say what she thought - until a commission had constructed some rules.

 

[IT Minion]

He was saying that he does not think transgender men should compete in women's sport because it is unfair on the natural women.

Nandy would not say what she thought - until a commission had constructed some rules.

It could be unfair, but depending on the details it might not be and there's a lot of details.

I'd want to wait for the commission to come to a conclusion rather than pretend I know what the answer might be off the top of my head. I agree with Nandy. He seems to have come to a conclusion without needing to know those details, but I might be being unfair.

 

[Bodd]

Russian field athletes (shot putt, Javelin and discus) failed the basic urine test mainly because they couldn’t get their cocks in the bottle.

That raises the point -

Very clever... I see what you did then

 

[Vinty]

it was a loaded question.

Piers tries to bring all his guests down like that.....he tries to get them down a rabbit hole.

Piers Morgan is the Jeremy Kyle of journalism.
Nothing more than an overpaid media troll.
He turns serious news into a form of entertainment.
His latest contribution to the Coronavirus discussion generated over a 1000 complaints to OfCom when he mocked the Chinese.

 

[Notch7]

Again then, why go on?

What point are you making?

Are you saying guests should only go on if tgey are prepared to fall for Piers childish games. He is a man child, he throws his toys out if his box if his pathetic attempts to put people down fail.

Lisa Nandy beat him, good for her.

 

[Brigadier]

What point are you making?

Because (as you acknowledged yourself) it is akin to "feeding the troll".
Why give the k##t the airtime?

(That said, PM is just an extreme version of so many of the "interviewers" nowadays; little substance, full of sensationalism).

 

[Vinty]

These days news is available 24/7 from multiple sources.
It seems to be more about chasing ratings rather than content.

 

[Notch7]

Because (as you acknowledged yourself) it is akin to "feeding the troll"

unfortunately people like Lisa Nandy need to be on shows like GMTV because that is what people watch.

Morgan cynically chooses subjects designed to get people fired up -the gender issue being one of them, Meghan is another.

he is actually very immature -he cant cope with people that beat him.