"...there's no question there, Ruth, and I have addressed this issue just above with some very recent history (e.g., NO girls at all playing football, let alone rugby, when I was a kid - I'm 43); so I'll try some Shakespeare, instead:

"Liberty, as surfeit, is the father of much fast" (from Measure to Measure)."


So you are saying, WAV, that you would actively prevent women playing these sports? How?

I wonder if you've ever read The Handmaid's Tale...it strikes me as exactly the sort of theocratic, insular, paternalistic society you aspire to. It is also recognised, by most sane people, as a dystopia in which women are utterly disenfranchised.

Can I ask, seriously, why you think that women who are living happy, fulfilled, independent lives with good careers, fulfilling personal relationships and flourishing families, would ever take any notice of your rules? So keep spouting your wacky opinions, but you have to realise that this is all they will ever be. Meanwhile, women will keep raising their kids going to work and lifting 25kg bags of coal and playing tennis and generally living their lives, without taking a blind bit of notice of you.