https://www.foxnews.com/us/usa-today-transgender-athlete-op-ed-chelsea-mitchell

Man this makes my blood boil

posted by Spock

https://www.foxnews.com/us/usa-today-transgender-athlete-op-ed-chelsea-mitchell

Man this makes my blood boil

If biological girls can and did compete in boys wrestling, then there should be nothing wrong with transgender males competing against other biological males.

I can't remember what the Olympic committees have said about this.  I do know, at that level, athletes will do crazy things to compete.  Remember a survey years ago, not long after the Ben Johnson scandal, and something like 75% of athletes would take a supplement with a significant risk of DEATH in 10 years if it helped them win. 

posted by gut

If biological girls can and did compete in boys wrestling, then there should be nothing wrong with transgender males competing against other biological males.

I can't remember what the Olympic committees have said about this.  I do know, at that level, athletes will do crazy things to compete.  Remember a survey years ago, not long after the Ben Johnson scandal, and something like 75% of athletes would take a supplement with a significant risk of DEATH in 10 years if it helped them win. 

Girls wrestled with boys because their was no sanctioned girls wrestling.  That changes next year with OHSAA sanctioned girls wrestling season.  We will see if a boy decides to cross over and wrestle with them.

posted by gut

If biological girls can and did compete in boys wrestling, then there should be nothing wrong with transgender males competing against other biological males.

I can't remember what the Olympic committees have said about this.  I do know, at that level, athletes will do crazy things to compete.  Remember a survey years ago, not long after the Ben Johnson scandal, and something like 75% of athletes would take a supplement with a significant risk of DEATH in 10 years if it helped them win. 

Your first argument doesn’t does not make sense, but I can’t tell if you’re serious. As for the olympics, there is a weight lifter that I think they’re letting compete (I forget what country). I will be rooting for him, so that women start getting angry at such a stupid idea. 

Pretty fucked. Same reason pronouns are dumb Ptown. They relish in this dumb shit.

This is really stupid. I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings that some people are not attracted to fat people. Plenty of people are, hence preference. It is not "fat-phobic" to have a preference on the body type of the opposite sex. You are doing yourself zero favors with this video and come off as an entitled asshole. Nobody owes you a date.

nothing more cringe than people who are too fat to understand how free markets work pic.twitter.com/cj5wNmyVFZ

— Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer) May 27, 2021

The kicker is, she's not unattractive. But she's absolutely insane. The eyes do not lie.

"You're fat-phobic!"

"No, I just don't want to pay your dinner bills.". 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

"You're fat-phobic!"

"No, I just don't want to pay your dinner bills.". 

She looks like the women who come to my shoe store.

You take her to the buffet.

posted by Al Bundy

She looks like the women who come to my shoe store.

You take her to the buffet.

Being fat and obese is a choice.  Not liking her for her choices is like not liking the local heroin dealer.

COVID has created such a weird loser fetish. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/post-pandemic-dont-want-to-reenter-society/619045/

posted by like_that

COVID has created such a weird loser fetish. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/post-pandemic-dont-want-to-reenter-society/619045/

Damn the writer needs therapy not a pen. Moving to Texas I can tell you Covid is over in Dallas. We went to a food hall on Friday and it was shoulder to shoulder standing room only packed with people eating and drinking. Not one mask anywhere in the place it was refres

It’s June, so all the brands are adding pride flags to their social media avatars. Except for their Middle East affiliate accounts. Clockwork. 

posted by justincredible

It’s June, so all the brands are adding pride flags to their social media avatars. Except for their Middle East affiliate accounts. Clockwork. 

I wonder why they aren't putting flags up on their Middle East Social Media accounts?

posted by jmog

I wonder why they aren't putting flags up on their Middle East Social Media accounts?

Cowardice. 

Beyond belief:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rhode-island-mother-lawsuit-critical-race-theory-requests

posted by jmog

I wonder why they aren't putting flags up on their Middle East Social Media accounts?

According to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Religion of Peace countries don't have homosexuals. 

The wokeness is never going to stop until people stop giving in to stupid things like CRT and made up pronouns. 

Pentagon says diversity training essential in 'defending the nation' https://t.co/KQ4e7VnQhV pic.twitter.com/v76pm9Xsyz

— New York Post (@nypost) June 2, 2021

Not sure Skittles thought this one through...

posted by QuakerOats

Beyond belief:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rhode-island-mother-lawsuit-critical-race-theory-requests

She called the principal and was told that they don't refer to "kids as boys and girls." 

"I was also told that they refrain from using gendered terminology in general terms of anti-racism. I was told that kids in kindergarten are asked what could have been done differently at Thanksgiving, and this struck me as a way to shame children for their American heritage," Solas said. 

posted by gut

Believing that changing the English language to coddle and enable 0.03% of the population, many of whom probably have a mental illness, is not only stupid but potentially really stupid?  

Hardly "get off my lawn" type stuff.  Get out of DC and re-discover what normal, rational logic looks like.

Or how about a more libertarian interpretation: Pretending to address an issue by changing or banning words isn't only pointless, it's likely to end-up worse than doing absolutely nothing.

Serious question: Have you actually had a conversation with someone who is Trans/ bi etc.? It sounds like you have not. If I am assuming, then correct me. If you have, you would realize how narrow and wrong that post is. 

I have worked with, and have friends that are trans. I would not classify them as having a mental illness, not at all. They are serious professionals that are engineers/ architects. I think you are just superimposing what you see and read online to the real world. 

I think a lot of posters do that here. Look at something online and think that represents the majority of that community. 

As for the get out of DC, I did. Been just north of Columbus 6 months now. But, even then, my interactions with people in the community has actually been around the country, including Charlotte, Orlando, Richmond, and elsewhere. 

All of this leads me back to my original post in the whole pronouns/ labels thing and it is the golden rule: Treat people the way you want to be treated. I have learned in business and my personal life, that holds true. If someone wants to be a different label, then I respect that and will honor that. Sounds like you should do the same. I also have another rule I live by that I think you should follow: Don't be a dick. 

posted by justincredible

Not sure Skittles thought this one through...

That does make me laugh. What person in marketing thought that would be a great idea? 

posted by iclfan2

The wokeness is never going to stop until people stop giving in to stupid things like CRT and made up pronouns. 

Pentagon says diversity training essential in 'defending the nation' https://t.co/KQ4e7VnQhV pic.twitter.com/v76pm9Xsyz

— New York Post (@nypost) June 2, 2021

Oh come on. You are going to post the story that mentions the Crenshaw woke military page and not mention the hilarious posts? The Starship Troopers ones had me rolling. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/06/03/dan-crenshaw-woke-military/