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Here's that blood on the hands I'm always talking about could also go in the GOP thread, but as I/plenty of other people have said, the assaults on trans people and abortion are really one coordinated assault by the same people: would-be theocratic fascists and their allies (whether...

Solid thread

yeah the best way to respond to this nonsense is with the ridicule and scorn it deserves and I appreciate people not wanting to get off-topic. I agree it's a tangent, but the connection, as I said, is a misogynistic impulse to control what womanhood means and police cis and trans women's bodies.

yeah pretty much, Victorian nonsense

to be just uninterested in any particular sport, sure, we all have different interests but the idea that women's weightlifting is "bizarre" is pretty hilarious. we're talking about a sport dominated by parts of the world - Eastern Europe, Central Asia, etc - that are hardly known for being...

nb that TERFs are an obvious exception here, which is one of the many reasons it's so sad to see them ally with people who are often stridently anti-feminist

all I can say is scratch a transphobe and you're likely to find a misogynist as well, the cultural worldviews go hand-in-hand it's an obviously nonsensical position that denies women the agency to choose to experience the full range of human emotion and experience it's basically the same...

Surely there is some element of that for some people tho it's hard to say how much There is definitely a thriving of publicly homophobic and/or transphobic dudes out here on the DL. Almost always trying to bottom, too - not that that matters but it's so common that it's basically a stereotype...

Pinhead, unlike Ron DeSantis, has basic empathy and a (pretty rigorous) code of ethics

I know you weren't, bud I was talking about the legions of troglodyte keyboard warriors on Twitter etc Aren't you a huge track and field guy iirc? And specifically a big Yelena Isinbayeva fan? Or am I misremembering

Also, side note: it's always hilarious to see random men criticizing women's sports when those same men would get absolutely destroyed by the athletes that they're criticizing.

Having said that, women's sports are just like men's in the sense that they vary from compelling to unwatchable. In a couple of the sports I follow, cycling and weightlifting, I'd contend the women are at least as entertaining as the men. Women's cycling is usually more chaotic and full of...

First, I'd dispute calling it a "debate". It's a quote unquote debate in the same sense that the anti-gay campaigns of the 70s (Anita Bryant et al) or Southern attempts to block desegregation and civil rights were "debates". And the strategists coordinating the attack, by + large, don't care...

The fact that it's impossible to tell whether this comment is ironic or serious pretty much sums up the cynicism of right-wing use of women's sports to attack trans people

Being completely bewildered by the fact that the UK somehow still has a useless, parasitical monarchy is one of the few issues that unites the entire dissensus political spectrum Every time I hear about austerity and things like people starving/freezing to death in their homes bc they can't...

Yes, elite adult and college athletes are the one area in the current assault on trans people where, unlike access to gender-affirming care or drag shows or etc, there are valid, good faith arguments to be made against participation by people who've gone thru male puberty, especially for...

This is the essence of why intersectionality and solidarity are important. Trans people are more likely than almost any other demographic to struggle with poverty, and trans POC especially. The same forces attacking trans people are, by and large, the ones attacking reproductive rights, gutting...

Quick updates for anyone keeping track -multiple states, Missouri (via an order from its AG classifying all gender-affirming care as "experimental", rather than an actual new law) and Florida most prominently, have moved or are moving toward trying to ban or severely restrict gender-affirming...

I like plenty of quote unquote "good" and/or "authentic" dance music too, and so do many of those other nominally non-dance music people. I like it for basically the same reasons I like The Rhythm of the Night. That song has a particular emotional resonance, but so do other things sometimes...

That's a fine take too, art is subjective etc, that's why it was a question rather than a decree For me, Nightcrawlers is whatever, Rozalla pretty good, Candi Staton ofc great altho it's hard to compare bc Young Hearts Run Free is of an entirely different era The other pop house anthem for me...