Men win 2nd-5th place at Nike Women's Half Marathon SF (Page 3)

Maybe they could burn their bras or something?

Yes, exactly.  White males don't get to discuss the issue unless they are discussing how to be less discriminatory toward others.  It's the whole reason white males are not included, by law, as a class of people who can be discriminated against.

It's my pigtails isn't it?

I'll open more cans here..

imho, women's only races are like athena/clydsdale catagories.

The industry does this because they realize there is a certain demographic that wants these catagories to participate. 

Yes, ponytails are a good reason to run these,.......

Seriously Chris?  That's the best you could do?

Yes, is there a particular problem with the post you'd like to discuss?

Oh.....................NO!!!!!!!!!!! 

Nope.

sweet.

Whew!

HA!!  Yeah, that didn't come out right, I guess I was laughing too hard.  I'm showing my age, but back in the days of Affirmative Action there was frequently two or even more sets of standards for hiring, at least in the govt. sector, in order to insure that AA worked and minorities and members of other legally defined "classes" were hired.  Lots of white males whined about it and called it "reverse discrimination" or something equally laughable. 

I just think it's funny when white guys start hollering about discrimination by women, minorities, etc.......looking back over our history it's hard to call foul.

Discrimination...sexism...you guys are way off the mark.

The reason for "women only races" is plain and simple. Marketing. In a market where every weekend you can find 5k, HM, marathons, Sprint Tris, etc., the race companies need to stand out somehow. And thus "women only" races. Pure and simple: Marketing. Because of discrimination issues, the organizers open the registration to all, and this might shock you, could not care less who sign up as long as people sign up.

Somebody mentioned "male only" races or "white Baptist" only races. Trust me, if that would make people sign up to the race, we would have them. Anything that will make the race stand out (in a positive way), will be done "white Buddhist" only races, "black Pagan" only races, "purple with polka dots Jewish" only races. 

I do agree that complaining about women oriented prizes and activities in a "women only" race is stupid and asinine.

My wife works for the government.  She has an employee who is very intelligent, reliable, and hard working, does an excellent job overall, and performs well above and beyond expectations.  Based on job performance, she has determined that this person has earned a promotion and/or raise.  Based on that information alone, they should receive the promotion/raise.  Unfortunately for this employee they were born a white male.  She has been trying to reward this guy for his past and ongoing performance for nearly 18 months, but she isn't permitted to because of his gender and ethnicity.

HR consistently pressures her to make management decisions based on gender and ethnicity rather than basing them on skills and job performance of her staff or any other relevant factors.  Isn't that the very definition of discrimination?

Please explain to me why that's acceptable, how the guy in this example isn't being discriminated against, and why he deserves to be punished for the sins of people who lived in the past and quite possibly have no ancestral connection to him whatsoever?

No matter how hard I try, I haven't been able to get my mind around this.