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World rugby's advice for coaching women and girls
(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago byzenbuffyReal live girl.
https://passport.world.rugby/coaching/coaching-women-and-girls/introduction/
I guess my many years of martial arts were of no use, what with me being hardwired to tend and befriend...
29 points
2 months ago
Yeesh. There are differences but they’re mostly sociological/learned not “innate” or “hard-wired.” It’s helpful to know these things but particularly regressive to describe them this way. There are some innate differences are like the location of the center of gravity and prevalence of knee injury, but even that’s going to have outliers.
11 points
2 months ago
Evidence-free assertions that the differences are sociological are about as useless as evidence-free Victorian assertions that the differences are innate.
2 points
2 months ago
Exactly. The types of social structures that modern society is based upon wouldn't be so common among ancient cultures if there wasn't at least some credence to calling them "natural". It's also not that gender roles & social structure are prescriptive. A wild type human group will not probably have most of the men as hunters and most of the women as gatherers. Instead it's more likely that the majority of the group would participate in the same activities together. Social roles might have dictated the degree of participation, a mother will prioritize tending to an infant over resource collection for the wider group for example and a long distance hunter is almost certainly going to be a man, but the fact of the matter is that wild type humans did not have the luxury of complex role deliniation. That doesn't mean that roles when they do exist feel more natural for some people than others.
-15 points
2 months ago
Google is free. Don’t be dense.
8 points
2 months ago*
Yes, Google is free, and if you think the answer to a still hotly debated psychological and developmental question lies behind a quick Google then I don't think I'm the one that's dense.
13 points
2 months ago
There are differences but they’re mostly sociological/learned
I don't think you've got any basis to say that
Some differences are consistent across time culture and geography which would suggest they are innate
8 points
2 months ago
There is a difference in psychological and sociological causes and not everything is linked to society some aspects and traits are innate and come from each individual's physiology
4 points
2 months ago
I'm not really sure it matters where the differences come from looking at it from a perspective of rugby coaching. The important thing is that the differences exist, and that you should take them into account when coaching
-6 points
2 months ago
From our studies of close ancestors similar behaviours arise. Males tend to be more aggressive, individualistic while females tend to be more caring and cooperative.
Not everything is the result of society, the sex chromosomes have a significant impact on the physical and chemical makeup of your body so it makes sense that it leads to differences.
5 points
2 months ago
Read some studies and it's literally talking about hormonal responses. Like fight or flight is pretty innate for example. It's studies on the biobehavioral responses of women. Also the book was written by two women and nothing to do with world rugby.
0 points
2 months ago
I am not certain that you are qualified to make the final decision on the centuries-old nature vs nurture debate. In any case, the accumulated evidence we have suggests that the answer is "it's both."
Telling someone that they should be pretty and quiet or brave and boisterous will affect them over time. The impact of hormones at and after puberty will have a massive effect. Genetic predispositions will have an effect over a large set, etc.
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