Joyful
10mo ago
The IOC didn't test him. The IBA did. They are trying very hard to not get sued for revealing sensitive medical information.
Neither of the XY competitors even pretend to live as women.
Joyful
11mo ago
Because a man punching a woman shouldn't be an Olympic sport. Its much more visceral than the three XY males that took the medals in one event during the 2016 olympics.
Images like this are powerful.
https://twitter.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1820091385199865963
The fact that he groped his first opponent after the match was terrible too.
Too many people didn't care about "just" the women losing out on scholarships, victories, and fame. Too many people don't seem to care about the injuries suffered by teenaged girls playing soccer, rugby or volleyball with much stronger males. But here we have a dude punching a woman in the face so finally more people are saying "you know what, maybe thats not fair".
Joyful
2yr ago
I find the idea of women's sports chuckle-worthy, about the same tier of interest as the Little Leagues. Aww, you poor things, incapable of standing up in absolute terms, let's make a nice carveout for you so that you can say you tried.
Antagonistic, uncharitable and unkind.
Joyful
1mo ago
Looking at the people on the conservative side, the loudest champions of a traditional moral order seem to be grifters, or at least hypocrites where they say one thing, and do another in their personal lives.
This is boo outgroup.
I'd say the loudest social media voices right now are Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro. Who specifically do you mean are hypocrites and grifters?
Hypocrisy has always been a lazy accusation. Better to be a person who believes there should be a standard and personally fails to meet it than someone who rejects all standards.
Joyful
1yr ago
Lacking experience is a pretty big lacking. I would add lacking experience AND JUDGEMENT, though (see anyone that takes on 6 figures of debt for an art history degree). The real question is was it easier for a 16 year old to be an adult in previous centuries because mostly you were able to learn all the things growing up in your village that you needed to know as an adult then? Is it only modern complex society that requires more time to learn enough to not fuck up?
Joyful
1mo ago
Wow is about half women, although the raiding scene used to be more like 25% (I haven't raided since 2016, no idea about now).
Joyful
1mo ago
Played a shaman in hardcore to 8 last week, put my nose out of joint, now I'm leveling up a ret paladin of all things in cata because I like MOP so I might want to play when that comes out. No interest in actually playing the cata dungeons or raids.
I dislike that they don't have bc and wrath servers, I don't like vanilla as much. I guess I have a private server to turn to if I need a wrath fix but I couldn't get their BC version working when I tried last year.
Joyful
1mo ago
If I remember correctly, magnitude is actually half of reality, not more than reality. (its been at least 15 years since I read the abstracts of the research from the 60s? 70s?).
For example, if the average person guesses that a black man is twice as likely to go to jail as a white man (stereotype), the reality would be that he was 4 times as likely. The gist was that we actually understereotype, that a pattern has to be really obvious to become a stereotype. But this research became taboo a long time ago and I haven't seen anything recent.
Joyful
1yr ago
Clarification: In this metaphor is a woman having your child the chef and you are the... eater of the baby?
Joyful
1yr ago
Its not an amazing poem but definitely a poem, clearly understood as such.
I have some nitpicks, the last stanza is terrible and there are some poor other lines, I don't like "while gaudier prints took on the grime and stains of daily wear" not sure how I'd rewrite it (remove the "on" or a more dramatic surgery).
Yes, older poetry has structure and rhythm as well as words, and it is fine to prefer a clear rhyme, a clever structure to this, but modern poetry is still poetry. More about mood and image than language play.
Joyful
10mo ago
The simple cheating case which sex testing exists to catch (a non-intersex cis man entering a female event) has never happened in the Olympics - and as far as I am aware it hasn't happened in international-level athletics either.
Trans identified males (non-intersex) taking over female sports has been happening at all levels of competition (including international) for several years now.
Documents the phenomenon closely, with citations.
Number of Female Athletes 717 Number of Medals* 1055 Number of Competitions 522 Number of Sports 37
Joyful
1yr ago
I found this extremely refreshing. The central example of rape is "woman was minding her own business when someone broke into her house and forced her". It is incredible how little of what gets called "rape" actually fits that category, and can be better described as "woman cruising for a dicking regrets the dicking come next morning". It is the worst argument in the world, enshrined into our legal code.
I find this a deeply icky way to generalize date rape involving intoxicants or sex with young teenagers.
Joyful
1mo ago
Puberty blockers cause permanent brain development problems as well as stunting sexual maturity at what tanner stage 2? They aren't harmless.
Joyful
1yr ago
I find your comment confusing. You disliked sexy teenage movies because you were a teenager not having sex?
Joyful
2yr ago
t just has to be plausibly deniable so that the girl can tell herself (and her friends, and her family, and her boyfriend/husband...) that she really didn't mean to sleep with the guy, but it "just happened". It's a way to get past her anti-slut defense.
It's not an anti-slut defense. It's a reasonable out "if I change my mind once we are alone" defense. Even with people I know well and have had sex with before (exes) I don't like the pressure of inviting someone over for sex explicitly. Because sometimes you change your mind, and you feel pressured by your earlier offer/commitment. Much less with a stranger. (I've never found myself in this situation with a stranger).
Joyful
2yr ago
MtFs commit crimes at the same rate as other men (and sex crimes at 5-6 times the rate).
I'd rather be in a sketchy womens bathroom with any randomly chosen male rather than one that deliberately wanted to be there.
Joyful
2yr ago
I prefer genderspecial. Probably because I've lost all patience with being expected to play along with the games of random people I don't know or barely know but who demand I agree to pretend I believe their version of reality on pain of social ostracism.
Joyful
1mo ago
To the contrary we don't diagnose teenagers with personality disorders because all teenagers have personality disorders. BPD manifests early and mellows (not that I would date anyone of any age with it).
Modern society creates anxiety in males and females, its theoretically manageable and curable.
Is there a reason you choose to use the pronoun she for a male pedophile?
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