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Why is Women's Darts so poor?
I have been a Darts fan all my life and am not too bad a player myself. I am just watching the womens Darts final, and as with previous years the quality of Womens Darts is not good. They can throw the odd good leg, but typically struggle to finish a leg in under 20 darts, which is about the level of an average player in my local Men's league. I can see no reason why Women should not be as good as Men at Darts, so I struggle to understand why professionally their game is behind the Men's. It's not just slighy behind, it is an absolute mile behind.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why Women cannot play Darts as well as men?
Well, Trina Gulliver has just won the title for about the 10th time, but I am not joking when I say that I would be fairly confident of beating her.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why Women cannot play Darts as well as men?
Well, Trina Gulliver has just won the title for about the 10th time, but I am not joking when I say that I would be fairly confident of beating her.
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I know a lot of women who compete and beat the men regularly but women will never be able to compete with main on an even basis. Women have monthly and hormone problems that men don't. Women have to come home from work, cook hubby his dinner, put the kids to bed and then go out to play darts. They don't have the killer instinct needed either or don't feel the need to be as obnoxious as some of the top professional men players. Trust me, I know a few having played county darts for over twenty years.
Idly flicking through the Freeview channels a few days ago I came across one entitled 'Darts' and paused to view. I nearly fell off my chair with laughter. Not the darts, the competitors. Here were two women playing, rather badly compared with the men players I have seen. If you had given a blank sheet of paper to someone with the most febrile imagination and asked him to draw what a chav should really look like, he would be hard beat to come up with anything to beat these two. Huge earrings, bare arms, ill-fitting tops, tattoos galore and faces you could chop sticks on. OP is right when he uses the term "Women's" rather than "Ladies'"
I don't want to risk the wrath of the ladies here but there are very few, if any, games or sports where women can compete on an equal footing with men. If there were then we would see women competing against men at tennis, athletics, snooker, football etc.
Leaving aside the physical differences, it's always been accepted that women do not have the same spatial awareness as men. That's why they have more problems parking a car or squeezing one through a gap. For that reason they find it harder to track and intercept a ball which is why women's football is awkward to watch as the players have less ball control and tend to flap at crosses. For that same reason women are terrible at ball games such as snooker. They just can't judge the speeds and angles. I think darts is just another example of women not being able to judge angles and weights as well as men. A good woman will always beat a bad man of course, but the top men will invariably beat the top women.
Please don't anyone accuse me of bigotry. The results speak for themselves. Women never compete against men.
Leaving aside the physical differences, it's always been accepted that women do not have the same spatial awareness as men. That's why they have more problems parking a car or squeezing one through a gap. For that reason they find it harder to track and intercept a ball which is why women's football is awkward to watch as the players have less ball control and tend to flap at crosses. For that same reason women are terrible at ball games such as snooker. They just can't judge the speeds and angles. I think darts is just another example of women not being able to judge angles and weights as well as men. A good woman will always beat a bad man of course, but the top men will invariably beat the top women.
Please don't anyone accuse me of bigotry. The results speak for themselves. Women never compete against men.
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