I'm not a lady, I'm a woman. So shut the fuck up and lemme jump already.

Not that I'd ever manage to qualify for the Olympics---I've been on skis of various sorts maybe four times. However, not being in the Olympics is hardly stopping these women from jumping, and therefore all of the doctors' deplorable sexism is doing nothing but preventing them from getting recognized for it. This woman whose brother is training for the Olympics, is still doing exactly what the doctor said is "not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view." The Olympics could hardly count for the majority of these thousands-of-times-a-year jumps which form the whole of the doctor's criticism.

It's true! This is why women shouldn't be allowed to play any sports at all--their delicate womanliness might be damaged if they have to exert themselves. Quick, can we repeal Title IX?

Umm...so women are allowed to compete in moguls (lots of jumping), figure-skating (more jumping, plus lots of spins, and those skates are sharp), half-pipe snowboarding (the entire point is to jump and spin), speed-skating (high-speed crashes aren't uncommon, especially in short-track, plus like in figure-skating the skates are sharp), biathalon (guns), downhill skiing (more high-speed crashes, which almost invariable end in injury of some sort), hockey (speed, sticks, walls, puck, large people occasionally running into each other [even though checking isn't allowed in women's hockey, but that's another rant])...

But they're not allowed to do ski jumping because that's like jumping down from two meters 1000 times a year. Perhaps the guy didn't notice, but little kids jump from two meters up all the time, yet their organs come out just fine. To paraphrase one of the Wayans, homey don't buy that. Let 'em jump.

*sigh*
My friend actually sent me a link about this back at the end of January.

If you go here, you can listen to the NPR report on it. It's always fun to place actual voices with the douchebags saying that poor little women can't risk that kind of thing. 'Cause if we can't reproduce, what good are we??

OK, so "women's" gymnastics is OK in the summer Olympics (and I use the word "women" euphemistically here because competitive gymnasts are usually girls, not grown adult women), but ski-jumping's not?

So apparently, after too many ski-jump impacts, women's ovaries just fall right out? Wow, that's gruesome.

They should be allowed to compete if they want to. Uterine and bladder detachment is actually a risk of this or any other sport that has consistent impacts. The female attachments are less sturdy then the men's because the plumbing is all inside. A major impact can cause a uterine prolapse or damage to the pelvic floor.

The best person to weigh the risk to health is the competetor. If they want to, they should. Certain sports are inherently more risky to the male genetalia becasue they are exposed, but i have never seen nor heard of any one suggesting men should be banned from an activity for their own safety.

So, zooming down iced-over concrete at 80 mph head-first on a sled with no brake isn't too dangerous but ski jumping is? Puh-lease. If we're going to get a lame excuse, just tell us there aren't enough women doing the ski jump to justify it as a women's sport. Then we can go recruit more women ski jumpers and enter it into the Games.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that even an industrial-strength cup protects against all damage to guy parts in the case of, say, a serious luge crash (mmmm! Sharp runners!) or a bad ski crash, not to mention the painful possibilities of pommel horse or parallel bars in the summer Olympics.
Remember the "Agony of Defeat" guy? But I guess he wasn't in any pain afterwards, due to not having a uterus.

I grew up playing boys' hockey, so it was hard for me to make the transition to women's hockey when I reached high school. See, in women's hockey they do not allow checking (knocking somebody off the puck using your body). I spent a lot of time in the penalty box for what would have been perfectly fine if I'd been playing with guys. Apparently women are just too delicate for checking.

Pregnancy and childbirth, both the actual physical stresses of carrying and delivering a child and ligament-loosening effects progesterone, are the number one causes of uterine prolapse and bladder failure. But we ladies can handle that, right? Just not something really stressful like ski jumping. (Could the real concern by that the women would quickly dominate the sport?)

Hm. I'm only a boy, but I assumed that the real reason that girls would be disallowed from ski jumping is that they're smaller and lighter...

As a former scholastic team ski jumper, I can say that the shock of landing in a normal jump is very small. The hill is shaped to follow the flight of the jumper. In mid jump, when one sees the transition from landing hill to run out going by underneath the skiis, a trained jumper knows that it is time to come down. One does that by pulling up, and through increased drag endng lift, the jump ends rather quickly. I have outjumped the hill, and that is jarring, but the normal jump is not a violent event. When a jumper outjumps the hill, the jump is cut back so that this no longer is possible, and the jumpers rejump.

The partner story to this one was in the Scotsman last week: alternative therapist warns crop-tops in cold weather might lead to infertility, a story in a national newspaper that ended with the line 'there is no medical evidence to suggest that wearing crop-tops in cold weather can lead to fertility problems'.

Of course, just because something is completely untrue doesn't mean they couldn't print it..

Far as I know, nobody had to go to the hospital because of ski-jump injuries at this Olympics. At least one ice dancer did. So, if we're banning women from dangerous sports, we know where to start.

"It’s more appropriate for a lady to become a mommy than to become the best female ski-jumper in the world." (Written ironically)

Well, yes. I mean, yes, literally. Almost all women can become mommies, only a tiny number of women can become ski jumpers, and only one woman can be the best female ski jumper in the world. Ladies are more suited to be mommies than ski jumpers.

Frankly, though, I'm very surprised there's any ladies at all clamoring to be ski jumpers. How do they find the time between hiring nannies, directing servants to shine the Suit Coat of Arms, and screwing the head groundskeeper?

Anyway, the whole notion of protecting women from their own choices that might damage their ability to procreate is so in-your-face sexist, it's hard to imagine that anyone could espouse these views today. Yet, they do. It's commonplace. And you never fucking see a man excluded from some activity (or medical procedure) solely on the basis that it might damage his reproductive abilities.

I'd bet that a great many sport activities are harmful to testicles and sperm counts.