Summary: Female Athletes

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Most compelling evidence shows, there are definitive biological differences between the sexes, and society claims that female athletes should never be able to play on male’s contact sports teams. Notably, women are physically built differently than men and in many ways, a women is not considered to be as strong as men. According to our class studies, comparing a male and female who each weigh the same amount, two hundred and fifty pounds, the women would not be able to perform the same tasks as a man on a professional football team. In the event, there was a female in the NFL and she took a hard tackle during a game, the likely hood of her being severely hurt is extremely high. Not to mention, even men get hurt throughout the games and

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