Why does the womens professional billiards association even exist?

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

Pool is a sport of finesse and brains.

Not strength or speed.

A sport where men and women really are equal.

So why is there a womens billiards association?

I don't get it.

[erooMynohtnA]

Because the male level of competition is predictably higher?

Besides, if that's not the case, there are associations for everything. Find some group, like male-to-female, obese Asian transexuals, and if there's more than two they'll probably have their own organization.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

Because the male level of competition is predictably higher

Lies.

[erooMynohtnA]

In a cursory search for mixed gender cue-sport competition, what I found was this: http://www.upatour.com/current-ranking.php

It is not exactly dominated by women.

Actually, now that I looked through it completely, I'm not sure that's a mixed gender list at all. I think there might just be some guys with feminine names on it.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

Then the real question is why men are much better at pool than women.

[telkanuru]

I thought it was purely to watch women with big breasts bend over...

[Mr Epee]

Then the real question is why men are much better at pool than women.

Contributing factors are a likely combination of socialization, and biological advantages related to perception of spacial relations, rotation, and motion.

... or what Telk said.

So either read this,

or look at this.

your choice.

[Inquartata]

Aaannd...cue (heh) the Cleavage thread...

[Sabresque]

i think low womens rankings probably has something to do with the fact that pool was traditionally a men's game and a lot of women just aren't trying it. Why they have a seperate league, who knows.

[Inquartata]

Because they can.

It means that more people get to hold office in organizations and engage in political and bureaucratic infighting. Human beings do love that stuff.

[noodle]

odds are it was not started because the sexes themselves were inherently inequal on skill levels, but inequal in treatment/events/coverage/whatever

[KD5MDK]

The average female member of the American Poolplayers Association is a skill level 3, while the average male member is a skill level 4. (SLs go up to 7).
I would predict that this is a historical artifact of men playing it longer and participating in the association for longer. Certainly in my experience the turnover of female members seems somewhat higher than men. I could also believe there may be some slight advantage in spatial visualisation, etc that is involved.

[piste off]

Contributing factors are a likely combination of socialization, and biological advantages related to perception of spacial relations, rotation, and motion.

... or what Telk said.

So either read this,

or look at this.

your choice.

She puts the 'Rack' in "Rack 'Em Up!"

R-

[Superscribe]

This is the problem when i hear groups proclaiming "women can do anything a men can do just as good or better"

Why did they have to add that last part in? Sure you may feel like you're discriminated against. Sure you might not have the same opportunity. I would have been happy being equal with you, but now because you tried to assert your superiority over me, i have to destroy you.

Just kidding.

I think

[tkexi991]

I've never seen a pool table in a sorority house. If you have, please send me the address - those girls have to be cool.

[latenight]

I've never seen a pool table in a sorority house. If you have, please send me the address - those girls have to be cool.

Me neither, but I have seen sorority girls on a pool table.

[Mergs]

Gotta go with Telk on this one!

[telkanuru]

Me neither, but I have seen sorority girls on a pool table.

I've never seen cheerleaders outside of a locker room.

Until recently, I just thought that's what they did...

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Besides, if that's not the case, there are associations for everything. Find some group, like male-to-female, obese Asian transexuals, and if there's more than two they'll probably have their own organization.

Ever heard of those strange descriptions of a person belong to groups A, B, C etc. simultaneously, a combination so strange so that one would never have thought it up had one not read it?

Well, some time ago, I was reading about Idaho on Wikipedia. there was a list of notable people from that state, among them:

A bisexual Guatemalan-american woman with dwarfism from Idaho, working as an XXX actress. How many of those can there be?


Happy Xmas!


Peter Gustafsson

[Black Jeebus]

To be fair— isn't every person in porn bisexual? There was a classified add for a local company here in town, and none of the guys were required to be gay or bisexual, but they did have to be willing to "finish" on other guys...