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Was this woke?
What did the Nazis feel so threatened by?
Nah bro you're ing stupid just like you conflating issues you bleeding heart retrard. What meds are you on tbh? I bet 90%+ of you dip s here are on meds.
Was this woke?
What did the Nazis feel so threatened by?
Fox News fatwas against schools and hospitals
anti-trans laws are a solution in search of a problem
Just the latest non-issue in the ongoing Republican culture war. Easier for stupid people to argue about than economics.
I mean how are kids supposed to enjoy the library with drag queens reading books to them there?
it's not a nonissue for people accused of corrupting kids by demagogues and violent bigots, for merely being present in public.
anti-trans laws hurt people and wreck families, they aren't just some culture war bagatelle.
book banning and muzzling public employees go somewhat beyond preaching to the partisan choir imho.
I'm not saying trans rights is a non-issue, I'm saying trans athletes infiltrating women's sports is a non-issue.
the tweet was focused on a recently introduced national "don't say gay" bill that defines trans people as pornographic and would make their mere presence in public a fireable offense.
we've gone way beyond policing girls' athletics.
Republican demagogues stoking political violence, just another day ending in the letter "y."
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Whatever happened to respecting the discretion of families to decide what's best for their own kids?
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88...pdf#navpanes=0
this wouldn't be a thing without the full-bore Republican persecution mania about gays and trans.
the magnitude of supposed problem is minuscule, the punitive threat to actual gays and trans is becoming widespread.
This is why I think liberals should cede some ground in the sports part of the debate. Conservatives are disproportionately focusing on trans athletes because it's the one area where the trans person arguably has an advantage, and it prevents them from having to discuss transgenderism in other contexts like teen suicide where they may not get as much head-nodding from the plebs. This makes it easier to persecute all trans people regardless of their participation in sports.
It's not unreasonable IMO to say you can't participate in women's sports if you were born male. Be who you want to be, but maybe choose one of many other hobbies.
yeah, I can see that on the college level, but that noise too.
let the NCAA figure it out, why does Texas need a law?
They don't. But if it temporarily placates the rabid horde at the expense of a couple students not being able to run track, I'd rather let them have that than wage a larger battle that causes more casualties.
rather speculative, I don't see the fervor being temporarily placated. is that happening somewhere?
Do you see progress from efforts supporting trans girls playing in girls sports?
I don't recall a whole lot of anti-trans fervor (and certainly not nearly as much legislation) prior to the entry of some trans students into girls sports in the past decade or so.
There's a fundamental concept called "Pick your battles." A lot of liberals have forgotten this and it's frankly leading to more regression than otherwise.
Last edited by Adam Lambert; 03-02-2023 at 05:56 PM.
It's only a discrete and separable battle if firewalled from everything else. I don't think it is.
The basic question is whether certain people get normal rights of association and expression, or get treated like second class citizens. I tend to doubt "letting this one slide" will prevent acrimony or further official repression by Republicans of gay and trans people. I think it's ok to oppose these things serially, More than one conceptual battle can fought at once, particularly if the cases belong to the same political universe.
Last edited by Winehole23; 03-02-2023 at 06:21 PM.
Girls beat boys?
Not fair.
Boys get the championship trophy while rec league officials ponder some suitable way to recognize the winners.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/hoov...ont-count.htmlA group of fifth grade Hoover girls forced to play boys in a recreational youth league were not recognized as champions despite winning the league le when the trophy was instead awarded to the boys who lost the game, according to parents.
The girls, who played in a compe ive girls’ league for three years representing Spain Park, were told they could not continue to use Hoover gyms for their practices unless they joined the city’s youth recreational league and play with boys, according to Jayme Mashayekh, whose daughter was on the winning team.
The girls were “middle of the pack” and lost tough games during the youth rec league season, according to Mashayekh.
“Playing the boys was a challenge they rose to meet,” she said. “It made them better players and a better team.”
In a Facebook post that went viral, Mashayekh said the girls were told before the le game that they could play in the championship “but if they won they wouldn’t be allowed to have the trophy.”
On Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, the City of Hoover and the Hoover Parks and Recreation Board became aware of concerns about a recent youth basketball tournament. We are currently working to provide proper recognition to all the teams that were successful in that tournament.
The weaker sex
https://hannahcopley.wordpress.com/2...nt-4-the-800m/Today we’re going to think about the 800m – one of the most surprisingly controversial events in women’s track and field. Did you know that after the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, women were not able to compete in the 800m until 1960? It is astonishing to think that the consequences of one race would go on to block women’s access to any Olympic compe ion longer than 200m for the next 32 years. And yet it was completely mis-reported. As Roger Robinson sets out in his Runners World article on the race and its aftermath:
It’s one of those stories that gets told over and over. When the women’s 800 meters was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at Amsterdam in 1928, several runners collapsed at the finish. Shocked at the public spectacle of women in such distress, the all-male Olympic establishment cut the event.
Some eyewitness versions give even more dramatic accounts.
“Below us on the cinder path were 11 wretched women, 5 of whom dropped out before the finish, while 5 collapsed after reaching the tape,” wrote John Tunis of the New York Evening Post.
Other newspapers preached that women would be desexed and their reproductive capability impaired by such “terrible exhaustion.” England’s Daily Mail affirmed that women who raced longer than 200 meters would age prematurely.
ROGER ROBINSON, “ELEVEN WRETCHED WOMEN”
Except that none of this was true.
In fact, of the nine (not twelve) women who reached the final, all completed the race, with Lina (Karoline) Radke-Batschauer (Germany), Kinue Hitomi (Japan)and Inga Gentzel (Sweden) all coming in under the previous World Record.
Knut Rockne lied
https://thegrowtheq.com/the-unfortun...er-of-a-story/Knut Rockne, yes the famed football coach, reported for the Pittsburgh Press that five women collapsed, and that, “It was not a very edifying spectacle to see a group of fine girls running themselves into a state of exhaustion.” John Tunis reported for the New York Evening Post, “Below us on the cinder path were 11 wretched women, 5 of whom dropped out before the finish, while 5 collapsed after reaching the tape.”
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