call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.
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Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.
Mongolian wrestling pulled the same stunt way back when. A woman beat the crap out of them so they changed the outfit to a chest-baring vest to ensure only men were participating.
Sports are segregated because there’s a substantial number of men who can’t face a woman being better than them at anything, and react to that internal conflict with violence. Women get treated as punching bags, and it gets worse when they’re good at the sport.
Hopefully at least baby steps are being made in the right direction
Yuko Fujii is the first woman to become head coach of the Brazilian men’s national judo team.
Let me see if I’m understanding the Brexit scenarios correctly. There are essentially 4:
1. Brexit happens as planned, it’s calamitous, the UK dissolves because no one wants to starve to death because of England’s bad decisions.
2. They find a way to do a “soft Brexit” whereby the UK stays in the eurozone but has no representation in the EU parliament, essentially becoming an EU vassal state that’s in some ways less sovereign than it was before, but they get to avoid food and medicine rationing.
3. They rip up the whole thing because it was never technically binding, there’s a mass outcry, the legitimacy of the government takes a hit, but life goes on.
4. They do a kind of pocket veto because they can technically prolong this forever. They hope that everyone will just sort of forget it’s happening, and in 200 years the fact that the UK is still trying to leave the EU on paper becomes one of those quirky historical factoids.
And, not to belabor this again, but they’re only in this mess because David Cameron wanted an official dick measuring for himself and pensioners got convinced by words on the side of a bus? I know I keep asking that, and I keep getting the same answer, but I just need to hear it reaffirmed every time, because I don’t totally process that this isn’t the product of a war or something.
“When they were little girls, they decided that they would be best friends forever. A whale never forgets a promise.” -Anneliese Juergensen
i have now died. of joy.
I don’t think I’ve seen art of an old mermaid (mermatron? mergranny?) before.
I love it!
Oh look it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen
This is really amazing but I have to say, I read “mermatron” not as “mer-matron,” but as “merma-tron“ and I was just like MERMATRON. AUTOWHALES. SWIM OUT. and I’m ruined my brain is ruined I’m so sorry
The most commonly accepted age range that I have seen for Millennials is, in fact, Chris Evans to Tom Holland. (1981 to 1996)
At this point, the Millennials are, for the most part, no longer the kids on your lawn; they’re your slightly-younger friends also complaining about the kids on the lawn.
The Holland-Evans Range sounds vaguely astronomical. I like it
