While I sat on the sidelines of todays co-ed ultimate games, Dan’s team in particular, I realized that a co-ed ultimate game is actually a good microcosm for how our world works.
Each team plays with seven players on the field, and at least two have to be female. And 99 percent of the time it is exactly that number, because there are less women playing co-ed than men. The women also tend to be shorter and not as strong physically than the men.
But the women are just as competitive, and the ratio of good skills players is about the same for men and women. So you’ve got these people running around, and the women aren’t thrown to as much, but they’re trying just as hard if not harder to receive and pass and score, and yet they still don’t control the game or the flow nearly as much as the men do. . . they are reduced to second-class players in a lot of ways because the men are dominating the field.
Just some observations..
Becca
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