The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports
The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports
theintercept.com
The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports
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These people think she's not fuckable so therefore she's not a woman, and furthermore think women's sports are worthless unless they see the athletes as fuckable. That's it. It's patriarchy with a new coat of paint.
The two genders: male and fuckable
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Have some Lemmy Gold.
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You wouldn't fuck a couch, would you?
Oh, you would? Then mind your own business.
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Hey, don't kink shame.
Couches literally have more cushion for the pushin'
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I think it's because they think the trans woman still has biologically male factors that make the competition not a competition.
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There is no trans woman in this case. A female boxer, born and raised as a woman, is being attacked and called a man. What OP is saying is that it's basically because they don't see her as attractive, and that's definitely a major component of it.
What it comes down to is that they're so obsessed with the idea of trans women that they start seeing them everywhere, and it usually comes down to someone not being quite feminine enough in some way, though there have been cases of people trying to claim some of the most conventionally attractive women in the world were secretly trans.
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They think she's not fuckable and therefore she's not a woman. All the proof I need is the literal fact that she's not trans.
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that's the pretense, yes.
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Ive always had this feeling, increasingly validated lately, that there's some weird push to invalidate all women that the right doesn't find fuckable.
There's all this coming after women for having T, and before the Olympics there's been a rise in this "if you think this woman is attractive (generic female athlete), you're GAY" Content.
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It's really obvious when they're having a go at cisgender white women about makeup or certain clothes or haircuts or body types. You always see the same comments explaining to women that they ackshually prefer 'natural looks' or less revealing clothing or long hair or 'something to hold on to'.
It's all through a lens of 'why do you make choices about yourself that don't improve your appeal to me, someone who wants to fuck you'.
That there are women that completely reject all those notions or don't seek their opinions (women who are trans, women who aren't hetero, women who reject traditional feminine looks, women who excel in their careers or physical sports) simply doesn't compute with these people's view of what women are.
The more malicious parts of that mindset lead to that push you're talking about. We as women are still just something that needs to validate its existence. Any deviation from that is viewed as something that should never have existed at all.
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There should be a campaign to purge the right from, well, everything.
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Hmmm... like an Anti-Rightist campaign?
First, we seize their means
Then, then we cap them in the knees
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there is, it's just not going very well.
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Mock them more.
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There were many throughout the years but they always end in authoritarianism, censorship, corruption, surveillance, povery, hunger, death and eventual collapse.
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Tell me again why'd you left Reddit and went to here then?
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liberalism.jpg
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Meanwhile, in reality and not the land of hilarious cope, this is what actually happens when you get rid of the right wingers:
The tapeworm says youll die without it, capitalists and rractionaries say the same. Society does not need a bunch of scared, bigoted adult children who never learned to share and who form lynch mobs at the drop of a hat:
Bonus food fact: the communists are better nourished
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They just hate women and more so if they aren't white women.
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What a shit website. Demands I sign up to read lol, uhh no? Ublock, you failed me.
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The worst thing to do is to pretend there is no issue. There is an issue, it's an issue people get easily upset about. There has to be a precise way how to deal with it so there is no room for it being a political issue.
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The right is ruining women sports... No wonder the left is so disconnected from reality with this astral plane traversing level of projection.
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You didn't even address the argument on Imane Khalef, ye sack of shite
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What argument? Most of the article says "Everyone who disagrees with me is a far right gender fascist and also for some reason racist and I'm right because science (I didn't care to link to) says so, trust me bro."
The only half viable arguments provided (and I'm really reaching here) can be easily debunked.
She was assigned female at birth.
Sex is assigned at birth based on external characteristics aka primary reproductive organs, you can't tell someone has internal testes, xy chromosomes or abnormally high testosterone levels just by looking at them.
She is eligible according to the Olympic rules.
The Olympic rules that were changed recently by removing the requirements for testosterone level within a certain range, the same reason why she was deemed illegible to compete by International Boxing Association just a year earlier, who is way more qualified to set fair and safe boxing rules then the International Olympic Committee by their own admission (PDF warning). Clearly we can't say that it's 100% fair and safe for her opponents.
She has lost before
I'm a guy and I'm 99% sure I would loose to a pro female boxer in the same weight class, because I have 0 training or experience, but I'm also 99% sure I would do way better than a girl with 0 training or experience. Loosing doesn't mean you don't have an unfair advantage.
Even using the lefts' own logic, if sex is a spectrum and she as someone who's intersex is somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, isn't it unfair and unsafe for either her or her rivals to fight each other when they're so far apart on the thing that's so detrimental to defining ones' physical capabilities?
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