I keep hearing about this, and must be missing something. Why is a woman beating a man of such significance? Isn't it just one talented player beating another? No one was interested in darts before; why ought the sex of the winner to change that?
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Nah it's not. It's someone winning at a sport.
It's nice to see some semblance of equality finally arrive where, unlike athletics or boxing, there is no reasonable basis to separate genders.
If nothing else, her results are a useful data point; that making a sport mixed really does equalise the standard for both genders (assuming it's not a sport dependent on physical size and strength.)
This should encourage similar sports to do the same.
Professional darts historically is a sport for beer-bellied balding blokes. Not just men, but generally a specific category of men.
Imagine you're watching the football World Cup, and suddenly there's this fat bloke in his 50's, and he's actually _good_.
It's that. The whole world turning upside down. A completely different type of character.
Why not follow up on that thread?
What you're missing is all of the context around this, both historical and current, which advance the idea that women ought not to even have the opportunity to compete in darts with men. More generally, women have very often been denied opportunities afforded to men across the board, based simply on their gender.
(Personally, I don't have a special interest in women's issues, but I do have an interest in fairness and justice and basic human rights. From that perspective, breaking down a bullshit barrier keeping a group down based on superficial traits is awesome.)
Oof. If I ever write a book about logical fallacies, I'll put these words right next to the strawman one.
When I came into this thread, prior to reading the comments, my first thought was to be curious as to why women wouldn't be just as good at darts as men are. After all, no physical advantage typical of men is needed to win at darts. Strength is irrelevant here. So is reaction time.
Have women in particular been denied the opportunity to play competitive darts? Don't generalize it, just think about the darts field. If that is true, then you can say you've made an argument in good faith.
Context is just a set of commonly understood facts and arguments that aren’t stated under the assumption the audience is either already aware or can become so without too much trouble.
I'm not sure how I can be more clear.
About your plot related comment you probably won't get in from you the elite of the elite of programmers/designers/whatever. But if you still want to make a point try to formulate a mathematical statement so we don;t debate language or assumptions.
I can't parse this sentence.