ABSTRACT
Claudio Tamburrini and Torbjörn Tännsjö begin their radical and radically inegalitarian chapter in this volume with the claim that ‘sexual discrimination is a widespread and recalcitrant phenomenon. However, in Western societies, explicit sexual discrimination, when exposed, is seldom defended straightforwardly’ (p. 181). They suggest that the fact that there are ‘women’s’ sports and ‘male’ sports is one of the ways in which sexual discrimination is ‘defended straightforwardly’. They argue that, if we believe in equality, we should also believe that men and women should ‘compete against one another on equal terms on sport arenas’ (p. 181).
