Thread: Equitable?
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Old 03-01-2005, 12:16 PM   #19
Pauliina Lievonen
 
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Re: Equitable?

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Christopher Li wrote:
So you would advocate inviting instructors based upon their gender?

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Chris
Let's make a little thought experiment: Let's pretend there actually are excellent female instructors in the world, who go unrecognized, because they're female. Just humor me for a moment. In this case, since they aren't recognized as the excellent aikidoka they are, they wouldn't get invited based on their skills. Right?

Now whether or not one chooses to believe this is the case at this moment in the aikido world, is really the question I think. Apparently most people responding to this thread so far believe this not to be the case - there are only a couple female instructors invited, because there are so few that are good enough to choose from in the first place.

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