Sports

Make the debate about social justice

Don't argue what's "more fun" or "more fair"

Sports are about the people (whether it be spectators or organisations or athletes)!

Pro sports commodifies body

Financially inaccessible + college scholarships exploit this

Limited safety protections + limited recourse in contracts that have been signed

Consent and liability are hard to clearly attribute (whose fault is it that Bob got hurt?)

Limited transferable skills

Pros face bias with opportunity and sponsors

Contract pay is limited by team and league investors

Press coverage + fans are highly prejudiced

Bioessentialism erases advantages of female anatomy and causes transmisogyny

Places states in measured competition, stoking rivalry in controlled environment

Victors, hosts, and protestors have magnified audience

Links to development through tourism, environmentalism, human rights, labour, etc.

Liberalism

• Sports encourages peace and cooperation

• Sports can model better behaviour

Constructivism

• IR is "gamified"

• Wars are spectated like a sport

• Relations projected on sports matches

Feminism

• Sports centres on masculinity through physical prowess and competition

• Gender separation imposes western heterosexism

• Equal opportunity is centred

Extreme misogyny limits wilingness of female players to enter the pro scene, to stream, or to reveal identity

Women often in "support roles"

Sports law has not yet caught up to protect pro e-sport player rights

Considering E-Sports as a sport in the first place