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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.

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug. 

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

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Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

bringing this back in light of the blatant racism and misogynoir in the olympics

Make up your fucking mind.

Are incels dangerous lunatics who need to be quelled at all costs, or harmless societal bottom rungs you can intentionally aggravate and fuck over out of sheer spite with impunity?

imagine thinking you’re at the “bottom rung of society” just because you refuse to improve your personality enough to get your dick wet. 

Dude could literally hire a hooker if he wanted there’s no excuse just stop being gross @ incels

As someone who used to be a “hooker”, I promise that incels treat sex workers just as awful as you’d imagine they’d treat any women they’d date!!! because the mindset that one requires to consider themselves an “incel” usually is accompanied by personality traits that women generally dont like! Like violent misogyny, dehumanization, selfishness in sex, and insecurity that manifests as a desire for domination–which is rarely supplemented with aftercare!  

Also, they largely fucking loathe sex workers, because they view us as ultimate sluts who should be punished for taking advantage of lonely men who deserve not to pay us.

Sex workers are not a cure for incels, we are a bandaid on a gaping wound, my friend!

Yeah sorry I shouldn’t have said it like that, or at all, my bad.

It’s okay, I’m not offended or upset with you at all. I’m frustrated with them.  Honestly this is the first thing anyone thinks when they hear incels complaining because it appears to make sense as a solution. Incels complain about not getting sex like it’s the root of the issue. They frame their plight as external rejection based and redirect all inquiries into their character towards blame of (non-sex working) women. It is absolutely reasonable to be like “well if you can’t convince someone, paying someone should be okay with you.” 

The twist isn’t that you’re wrong, because you’re not. Its that, because the root of the problem incels have is internal instead of external, the solution of providing paid sex doesn’t solve their problem. And even when given the opportunity, they slander it and reject it.

And that’s what the most frustrating thing of all: That they hate us. But they desire us. That they don’t respect us. But they demand our attention. That they devalue our desired labor. But they desire that labor. They want it all for free, and barring that? by force.  In the words of my boyfriend: “They don’t have girlfriends because they don’t deserve them. Look at what they’re saying. Would you leave a woman you cared about with a man who says and thinks things like this?”

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so the message I'm getting is that there aren't nearly enough gays in rogue one

Why it’s so hard for men to see misogyny (via ethiopienne)

BOOOM.  Read this if you are a dude, please.

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Yesssssss.

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Its hard for men to understand why women dont get loud & angry because they havent spent their entire lives being reprimanded whenever they take up too much space. (via pluralfloral)

fadewithfury replied to your post:Was there a point to Missy’s ‘welcome package?’ At first I thought there was a download of information in the kiss but (maybe I cringed too long and missed it) was it just Missy being awful and trying to get under the Doctor’s skin just to creep him out? For a second I was hopeful that she was a robot (wouldn’t the doctor notice that after all) but the end just had to ruin that and prove that everyone was right that she was the Master.

the fact that people are heralding this as a progressive step forward for the show is what is really doing my head in, in general. there’s this real tone of “appreciate what you’re given!” to so many posts i’ve seen, as well as this truly bizarre attitude of “well, Moffat never had the CHANCE to make the male Master kiss him!” as if it wasn’t Moffat’s explicit choice to cast the Master as a woman and his explicit choice to make her then assault the Doctor for laughs

lol actually so many defenses of Moffat boil down to this impression that fiction descends from the ether fully-formed and Moffat is merely the dutiful transcriber

and i’m REALLY tired of people implying i’m a bad feminist for not rolling out the red carpet now that moffat has “paved the way” for the Doctor to regenerate into a body with boobs and immediately adopt a hyperfeminine persona because women