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Football, the equal opportunity sport

meee93 said:
It's not too sensitive to be discussed, you just need to have an open mind to being accepting that you can be in the wrong about something or to be not fully understanding a topic. If you don't enter a conversation with that mind set then you are discussing in bad faith. Humans are always learning, embrace it. Being wrong is good for growth.
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Enshrine this. ^

Risking and failing, being wrong and realizing it, both are integral to an improved life and an improved world.

Or:

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.”
― E.B. White

So to answer your question Nick, you are bringing sexuality into sport. And when dealing strictly with men's and women's sport, as we are, it is irrelevant. There are some athletes that are better than others. If you want to read something about this in the business arena I direct you to Jordan Peterson's identification of traits that make people successful in business. I would imagine they are fairly similar to sport. He spends a lot of time with women executives coaching them in this area for further success.

There is a movement to equality still in progress as far as compensation and prominence is concerned. All companies and sports are facing this and moving to address it. Hence the women's website is integrated into the overall club website so things are equal.

Really, you could equate the professionalization of rugby to the professionalization of women's soccer (and any other women's sport that is starting to generate its own revenues). Do you honestly think Levy would bother if it wasn't profitable to have a women's team?

So there you have it, a response based on what is happening without the irrelevance of a player's sexuality being brought into the discussion.
 
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