I don't quite understand the whole thing but I think each event makes its own rules. So, a marquee event like swimming won't be ruined, But women's boxing, which is already kind of freaky and niche, is.
Something like that. Boxing strikes me as being a particularly bad sport for trans. I would think it would dangerous for a woman to try boxing with a man.
We’ve already been down this road back in 2014, when trans-woman UFC fighter Fallon Fox gave Tamikka Brents a concussion, orbital bone fracture and injuries requiring seven staples to her head in the first round. Brents stated “I’ve fought a lot of women and I’ve never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night…I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right.”
Man. A man beat Tamikka Brents. People are so stupid and willingly blind that they believe a man and woman of the same height and weight would be equally strong and powerful. I think it was Mary Harrington who says people believe this because because girls and boys don't roughhouse or engage in physical play much anymore.
The Olympics keeps talking about throwing out men's boxing (boxing is declining in popularity, it's crooked, and Olympic boxers and their corner crews tend to be not quite right in the head, causing a long history of anarchy in the ring after bad decisions). But instead, they added women's boxing.
Personally I think it would be sad if they got rid of men's boxing because I have fond memories of past winners (Ali when he was Clay) but in this day & age if you have men's boxing you gotta have women's boxing... so yeah, get rid of it.
Will they ever have men's rhythmic gymnastics? Why not?
Is there a men's synchronized swimming? With their greater lung capacity it would be a gas!
> [Thomas] likes watching women athletes change in their locker room
I would say more that he, as well as other fetishists of his stripe, enjoy undressing in front of woman and subjecting them to their mental illness rather than enjoying watching the other women dress, but perhaps I am making a distinction without difference.
So, when a Woman gets killed/maimed/paralyzed by a Man pretending to be a Woman in one of the contact/collision sports, the wordsmiths, presumably, have already written out the talking points for the the Media folks. Minutes count, so to speak.
Just thinking out loud here, this is just so irrational, I can't imagine how they will slither their way out of this obviously avoidable mess.
But, as has been observed elsewhere, we are not naturally Rational, rather Rationalizing.
He didn’t get banned by the Olympics people themselves. On another site there was some headlines about two trans boxers.
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/boxers-who-failed-gender-tests-at-world-championships-cleared-to-compete-at-olympics
Here’s a news story on Lia Thomas
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna156808
I don't quite understand the whole thing but I think each event makes its own rules. So, a marquee event like swimming won't be ruined, But women's boxing, which is already kind of freaky and niche, is.
Something like that. Boxing strikes me as being a particularly bad sport for trans. I would think it would dangerous for a woman to try boxing with a man.
That would put an end to this nonsense very quickly.
We’ve already been down this road back in 2014, when trans-woman UFC fighter Fallon Fox gave Tamikka Brents a concussion, orbital bone fracture and injuries requiring seven staples to her head in the first round. Brents stated “I’ve fought a lot of women and I’ve never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night…I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right.”
Wow. It shouldn’t be allowed.
Man. A man beat Tamikka Brents. People are so stupid and willingly blind that they believe a man and woman of the same height and weight would be equally strong and powerful. I think it was Mary Harrington who says people believe this because because girls and boys don't roughhouse or engage in physical play much anymore.
The Olympics keeps talking about throwing out men's boxing (boxing is declining in popularity, it's crooked, and Olympic boxers and their corner crews tend to be not quite right in the head, causing a long history of anarchy in the ring after bad decisions). But instead, they added women's boxing.
/facepalm/
Personally I think it would be sad if they got rid of men's boxing because I have fond memories of past winners (Ali when he was Clay) but in this day & age if you have men's boxing you gotta have women's boxing... so yeah, get rid of it.
Will they ever have men's rhythmic gymnastics? Why not?
Is there a men's synchronized swimming? With their greater lung capacity it would be a gas!
I'd favor inventing more women's only dance-like sports in which women are better than men.
I certainly don't miss shim.
I thought you were making a mistake but then I got the joke.
The Olympics will undoubtedly be much improved by the coming wave of purpose-built sports androids who identify as humans.
> [Thomas] likes watching women athletes change in their locker room
I would say more that he, as well as other fetishists of his stripe, enjoy undressing in front of woman and subjecting them to their mental illness rather than enjoying watching the other women dress, but perhaps I am making a distinction without difference.
What's the policy for what gets published on your blog vs getting published on your substack?
So, when a Woman gets killed/maimed/paralyzed by a Man pretending to be a Woman in one of the contact/collision sports, the wordsmiths, presumably, have already written out the talking points for the the Media folks. Minutes count, so to speak.
Just thinking out loud here, this is just so irrational, I can't imagine how they will slither their way out of this obviously avoidable mess.
But, as has been observed elsewhere, we are not naturally Rational, rather Rationalizing.