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Toilets: because women don't want to disrobe/defecate in places where men will (at best) hit on them
Sports: because women would be excluded from competition in all but a handful of sports like target shooting and long-distance swimming
In short, because there are real physical and mental differences between male and female that necessitate segregation at times if "equality of opportunity" is a goal. Mixed-sex sports means almost no women get to be professional athletes. Mixed-sex toilets (unless single stall) mean women in practice will never leave the house without a chaperone. "Whites only" is not about giving whites equal opportunities but excluding blacks from opportunities/public life, and giving them inferior alternatives. "Use the (inferior) black fountain" is not the same as "use the (perfectly fine) male toilet".
If you mean in general, all societies have deemed various places the proper/improper place of one sex or another, whether it be kitchens, the outdoors, the sporting field, the birthing room, the tabernacle, etc. We have decided that the public world at large must be open to women, so we have created female-only toilets so they may go about in public.
The sport example is terrible. Olympic swimming excludes pretty much all black people due to genetic factors, but we don't have an equivalent Olympic category for just "black people" with the same level of prestige as the open competition, but for some reason women get their own league...
If true, I would imagine there certainly could be genetic factors. Similar to how pretty much every single 100 meter gold medalist in the past 30 years has been of recent African ancestry.
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Lung volume for instance, Phelps was exceptional partly because of his exceptional lung volume and upper body shape.
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There are bone density differences between the races, so yeah bouancy may well differ because of genetics.
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Black people tend to have longer limbs and shorter torsos compared to white people, and having a long torso is beneficial for swimmers because you have less drag in the water. Michael Phelps is a good example of a swimmer with an extremely long torso.
https://www.usaswimming.org/meet-the-team/u.s.-olympic-team
There are still a number of black swimmers on the US team, so it's obviously not insurmountable.
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Perhaps Burdensome is channeling Al Campanis
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Someone should probably alert Cullen Jones to this development. I nominate you.
I did not know this. Apparently black successful olympic swimmers do exist, but equally there's this really tall Chinese basketball dude while I'd say that on average the Chinese are not the best suited for Basketball due to their smaller heights.
Anyways: we don't have a special Olympic category for short (under 5'6") male rowers (lightweight rowing exists but those people are still 6'+) while we do for women. Shortness is almost as genetically determined as being female.
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Nowhere did I say Olympic. I'm sure there are national and below swimming competitions where black people could be reasonably competitive (assuming your claim is actually true, I have no idea, I assumed black people not being able to swim was just a meme). There is almost nowhere at the high school level and above where women can compete against boys, let alone men. There are also plenty of other sports where black men do fine/great (running, weightlifting, many team sports), whereas, again, there are maybe two or three things nobody really gives a shit about where women are even vaguely competitive with men. Black people are doing fine overall in the realm of sports even if they're disadvantaged in some, but without segregation the number of female athletes past elementary school would be very close to 0.
The claim is false, and i suspect that the meme is driven (at least in part) by number of inner-city kids who join the Navy or Marine Corps and end up spending their first couple weeks of boot camp in remedial swim instruction because they've never been in water deeper than their waist. Go to an actual swim meet and you'll see a fair number of black and mixed guys competing just as you do in pretty much every athletic event.
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