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""Ski jumping is just too dangerous for women. Don't forget, [the landing] it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters to the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."

Sometimes it comes up in conversation when I do something like claim that something is 'female only' and my boyfriend takes issue with it being a type of reverse sexism, that girls having time alone will not fix anything or be an answer. What I always maintain, while knowing that is the case, is that you guys have NO IDEA WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A GIRL. I wish I could explain just how different my life is because I was born with certain chromosomes, so you would undertsand how it feels to live like this, the tiny little things you never even have to notice that boil my blood, the way that our world is still run by men, the way we can never escape their decisions and have to live by their rules every single day, except for those moments we can say 'ha! you like this? you want to do this? well tough, YOU'RE NOT INVITED'.

Petty maybe, but from what I have learned in this life, you never truely know how something feels until you've experienced it yourself. And the reaction I always get from men about the miniscule number of times they are excluded is like it is the most immense human rights violation they have ever experienced. That is when I realise, it is and that is why it's important to feel it so you have some slight notion of the endless frustration and tiny little irritants that we feel every single day.

This anger all stemmed from this article, I'll finish with a final quote:

"Tiresome is the word. Many American women over the age of 45 can remember when girls who wanted to play Little League baseball were told the same excuses. The women's marathon wasn't added to the Summer Olympics until 1984 because it was supposedly bad for their health."