I'm so fucking tired of this discourse, besides the very obvious transphobia that the Brits love, at this point it's thinly veiled sexism that the only women competing should be visibly stereotypically feminine. Which you know, runs counter to the required muscle mass to compete in these sports. Then you've got the factor that the women targeted in these tirades are often times POC so it's checking even more bigotry boxes.
With their collapsing economy and lack of import in global politics, the purpose of TERF island appears to be acting as a bigotry factory exporting their shit takes to the rest of the world.
George Foreman won Olympic gold in 1968, he was so absurdly strong that even in his literal 40s, coming out of retirement to box again mainly because he was absolutely broke, while having the physique of Homer Simpson, he still punched so hard that opponents that actually BEAT HIM would start asking their corner during the breaks between rounds to please check that all of their teeth were still attached, and his comeback career was still almost unanimously treated as a total farce.
This shit is so fucking dumb in comparison, yeah of course she hits hard, shes an Olympic boxer. She beat rural Algerian misogyny to make it this far and now this fascist culture war bullshit is trying to ruin her life.
We are going to be witnessing new levels of rage-posting as transphobes confront the undeniable scientific fact that biological sex is also a spectrum.
Get ready for conservatives to start demanding genetic sequencing for girls' high school sports, they now will be claiming that genital inspections don't go far enough.
She's a God damn boxer competing in the Olympics! Of course they're punching eachother in the face, that's the point of the whole thing. They signed up for it!
In the same time they're claiming Algeria is woke and sent a trans woman, they also claim Algerians are backwards who beat up women.
This is actually pretty standard TERF shit. They believe that trans women are men, and that men are inherently violent against women. In this way, sending a trans athlete and beating a woman are manifestations of the same violence.
Holy Fuck the transphobic tirades that came out of this is extremely irritating and has me fully convinced people are extremely cooked from the reactionary news juice. It's legitimately depressing and I think the onion has a point.
I'm glad young me knew the Harry Pothead books were stupid shit for babies when I saw the movie as a pre-teen. Saved me having to be disappointed by this massive fucker of a TERF.
Genuinely Twitter reactionaries would believe anything. Transphobes are incapable of dealing with the actual material complexities of sex and their brain disintegrates when there is any deviation from the rigid binary they learned from children’s films.
The issue for the Italian boxer was apparently an equipment malfunction (boxers wear helmets in the olympics), not that the Algerian boxer was far too strong.
Kind of mad how far this terf shit has spun out of control in recent years. She was at the last olympics and nobody gave a shit then. Now we have major politicians and the official team Italy account fearmongering and all the legacy media I’ve seen are doing the JAQ shite.
The coverage of this is so fucked. I can't even find a clip of the fight because all the search engines are clogged with TERF frenzy articles and videos
I feel like I'm out of touch for just calling my trans comrades comrades and having it be that simple.
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But secretly I have a complex about the audience being upset when the athlete that was supposed to win loses. One of my most memorable wins in BJJ was when I was losing against an opponent who had their spouse and child there cheering for them, but then I got them with a wrist lock in the last minute and got to savor the surprise on their faces. More than winning, I enjoy being the reason that my opponent doesn't win. I relish when they try bully tactics on me and they don't work. If someone cried when I punched them in the face and then everybody got butthurt I would find it sweeter than the medal.
The discourse about this on chud twitter is insane. Full on ergot poisoning levels of derangement. They’re even going after that one cis rugby player who afaik is just very athletically built and has no chromosomal or genetic abnormalities.
So what does she just have PCOS? Is she intersex? I don't get it. There is nothing in what I can find that she's trans, but she apparently has high blood concentration of testosterone (unlikely this would even be the case if she was on HRT).
wanna bet the italian will go on a chud grifting career after this? this whole stunt by her seems like the start of a grifting career, she looked like she never boxed before wtf is she doing up there.
It's so obvious when you look at these TERFs that chromosomes, hormones, height, bone density or whatever else they come up with are all just a psuedoscientific smokescreen. The only thing that matters is exactly the same thing that has always mattered in misogyny - gatekeeping who is and who isn't considered a woman. If you're tall, if you've got broad shoulders, if you've got naturally high testosterone it doesn't matter what you were assigned at birth, to them you are not a woman.