Why are Somali girls/women non athletic generally speaking?

[Gaarasho]

Genuinely

 

[Moon-]

i think bc of culture we don’t really have sports culture for girls but my cousins parents are really big on sports they’re family put them in so many diff clubs/sports it’s rlly depends some ppl are diff

 

[Aseer]

Let me correct that for you.

*Why are Diaspora Somalis non athletic generally speaking?*

 

[Torti]

Let me correct that for you.

*Why are Diaspora Somalis non athletic generally speaking?*

This is really the only region in Somalia where Somalis are athletic in terms of fast twitch imo. Majority of the good middle distance 400-1500 runners I know in Diaspora have family links here.

 

[The truth seeker]

Let me correct that for you.

*Why are Diaspora Somalis non athletic generally speaking?*

Somali girls back home are ethier super skinny or obese there is no middle ground

The Somali girls in the diaspora are attractive when there young but they lose the body the minute they have a kid due to the fact that they don’t work out

 

[yeawhynot]

you say that as if the men are atheltic. and also is there not a literal boxing champion from the uk whos a somali woman. thats more than any male has ever accopmlished

 

[The truth seeker]

Genuinely

Somali culture in general promotes laziness and despises manual labour that rubs off on our women to

If a woman works out and eats healthy she can maintain an attractive body until she’s 35 rather than looking 50 at 30 like many Somali girls

 

[The truth seeker]

you say that as if the men are atheltic. and also is there not a literal boxing champion from the uk whos a somali woman. thats more than any male has ever accopmlished

Somali males in the diaspora are athletic and play basketball and other sports all the time we will have a Somali in the NBA soon enough

Somali women on average don’t play sports or work out it’s just the truth let’s not bring gender war nonsense into this thread

 

[Devilsadvocate]

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[The truth seeker]

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There are gyms all over my city Somalis just need to stop being lazy and actually start doing a little something called hard work

 

[gasara]

Most of the girls I know played soccer, basketball, badminton, tennis, and volleyball to name a few. I played soccer in a league since I was small and my parents made me go to the park and practice regularly. For basketball I know some girls who played competitively they were so good. But I think what happens is University happens and people have less time to play in leagues.

 

[Cartan Boos]

Somalis are their weird obsession of generalising

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

We like to eat predisone and turn to ballons and bleach, that's our sport

Realistically I've seen many sporty Sisters on social media. The do mostly soccer and basketball, weight lifting and pilates.

On the other hand farahs just do soccer.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

jamad hosts basketball camps all over North America mainly the states we will see the impact of that soon hopefully with Somali girl athletics

 

[Juliet]

Thrice weekly gym girlie and avid swimmer. Who's we?

 

[Aseer]

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This is really the only region in Somalia where Somalis are athletic in terms of fast twitch imo. Majority of the good middle distance 400-1500 runners I know in Diaspora have family links here.

Tell me your from Sanaag without telling me you are from Sanaag.

Somali girls back home are ethier super skinny or obese there is no middle ground

The Somali girls in the diaspora are attractive when there young but they lose the body the minute they have a kid due to the fact that they don’t work out

Nah those are reer magaal and thats a stereotype the gabdho back home eat healthy and look healthy same for the men, its a bonus if they are maryooley.

 

[Devilsadvocate]

Somali girls back home are ethier super skinny or obese there is no middle ground

The Somali girls in the diaspora are attractive when there young but they lose the body the minute they have a kid due to the fact that they don’t work out

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I’m not down playing the effects of childbirth on women I’m simply advising Somali women eat healthier and work out more it’ll increase there life span and allow them to enjoy a whole host of other health benefits

 

[Idilinaa]

I believe its because sports aren't promoted/supported as much for women as it is for men.

It does not mean Somali women are incapable of being athletic, when the Somali government back in the 70s/80s invested into women's sports , they were regularly competing at high levels with women from other countries and was getting scholarship offers in prestigious American universities to join their sports teams as star athletes

I remember reading what the Kacaan government did was invest heavily into women and mens sports, as a way to bring somalis together across regional and clan lines. They had stadiums and sports team across all the major towns and organized inter-regional games between various sports teams. Stuff like that will foster civic pride and cohesion.

Example:

Donate to Send the Somali Womens Basketball Team to the Arab Games by Su’ad Galow

Dear Friends, To donate Click Here I’m a Somali American born in Sool and raised in Mogadishu. I began playing basketball at the age of 7 and credit the sport with providing me with an education, r…

www.ceegaag.com

In the 1980s, I was captain and player on the Somali Women’s National Basketball Team. Our strong government supported us with the freedom to play and that led me to earn a scholarship at University of District of Columbia in America. In 1991, soon after I arrived in America, civil war broke out and prevented me from returning to Somalia until 2009.

But we are starting to see it change now in the last few years. There is more of them being active, partaking in running activities, sports and hiking in the mountains in Somalia etc

The female Somali runners aiming to break more than records

‘Run and beat the boys with the skinny legs!’ urges a woman decked in a brown jilbab. Abdi Latif Dahir meets the women competing to push cultural boundaries in male-dominated Somaliland

www.independent.co.uk

More women running shows that life, slowly, is changing

‘I Feel Strong and Free’: Running Takes Hold Among Women in Somaliland (Published 2020)

In a traditional, conservative society, more female athletes are participating in an annual running event, a sign life may be changing here for women.

www.nytimes.com

Somaliland’s sportswomen are breaking tape – and barriers

Somaliland’s women are building gyms, joining leagues, and running races, showing their neighbors they can be both devout Muslims and athletes.

www.csmonitor.com

But something is quietly shifting. Across the capital of Somaliland, a self-declared nation in the Horn of Africa, women are increasingly demanding space to move. They are building gyms and starting sports leagues, going on predawn runs at the edge of the city and to evening Zumba classes. And by doing so, they are proving that there is no contradiction in being a Somali, a devout Muslim, and a woman athlete, all at once.

 

[Abu Hesi]

too many carbs and lack of movement/exercise, at least some women gained that weight due to pregnancy laakiin faraxs have no excuse.