Pedersen Arve Vorland, Aksdal Ingvild Merete, Stalsberg Ragna
Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 9;10:762. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00762. eCollection 2019.
Spectators frequently harass female soccer players, and women's soccer is frequently compared negatively to men's soccer by writers who make the comparison without the backing of any data and without taking into account anthropometric and physiological differences between the sexes. This affects female soccer players' self-confidence negatively and contributes to an undeservedly negative image of women's soccer. In the present paper, we argue that most differences between men's and women's soccer can be explained by women having to adapt to rules and regulations that are suited for men and their physical attributes. Thus, games are much more demanding for women. Furthermore, we argue that if men had to play with a degree of adaptation similar to that which women do today, they would have to alter their style of play radically. As support for our argument, we scale game demands for male and female soccer players according to anthropometric and physiological differences in order to highlight the differences, and use these to predict what would be the most appropriate adaptations. Finally, we show that our predictions are largely supported by the scarce pool of comparable data across the sexes.
观众经常骚扰女足运动员，而且一些作家在没有任何数据支持且未考虑男女之间人体测量学和生理学差异的情况下，频繁将女足与男足进行负面比较。这对女足运动员的自信心产生了负面影响，并导致女足形象无端受损。在本文中，我们认为男女足球之间的大多数差异可以解释为女性不得不适应适合男性及其身体特征的规则和规定。因此，比赛对女性的要求更高。此外，我们认为，如果男性必须像如今女性那样进行一定程度的适应，他们将不得不从根本上改变自己的比赛风格。作为对我们论点的支持，我们根据人体测量学和生理学差异来衡量男女足球运动员的比赛要求，以突出差异，并利用这些差异来预测最适当的适应方式。最后，我们表明，我们的预测在很大程度上得到了稀缺的跨性别可比数据的支持。
