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I'm not the biggest fan of hoops but... look at Barbara Domingos' routine. Just look at it.
She did it AGAIN. WTAF is wrong with her??? She is being sued by this woman for cyber bullying and she decides to respond with....MORE cyber bullying.
Team Imane!! jK you are an insult to women and an insult to what it means to be decent.
Meanwhile
#really joanne??#you claim to be a feminist and yet you’re insisting that a woman divulge deeply personal information about her body to the public????#fucking weird and gross#‘i care about protecting women! so publish your medical records immediately so i can judge you!’#imane khelif#jk rowling#jkr#anti jk rowling#anti jkr#olympics#olympic games#olympics 2024#2024 olympics#sports#athletes#transphobia#intersexism#racism#bigotry#twitter
Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.
Time to support her, because even without the racism element I expect she will be getting some flak from Awful, Awful People.
This is the shit I was talking about when I said that EVERY SINGLE ONE of you who have been posting variations on "yasss girl, go Imane, get her ass" and "She's not a man, also biology is hella complicated and not black & white", had better SHOW THE FUCK UP for Valentina, with the exact same energy and strength.
Valentina is different than Serena Williams, and Caster Semenya, and Imane Khelif.
All four of these people I mentioned are women.
But for Valentina, you can't pull out the argument I heard a lot for the others, especially Caster and Imane. "She's not even trans anyway, they're just using a sexist and racist standard of what womanhood is 'supposed' to look like- see? Transphobia also hurts cis women!"
Because Valentina IS TRANS.
Yes, transphobia absolutely can and does end up hurting cis women. But let's not forget that it always hurts the intended targets more. And the intended targets are trans people.
Valentina IS trans, and y'all better support and affirm her womanhood with your whole chests, and the same ferocity you did for a cis woman.
Let’s check in more on her!
Oh hey…she’s not only a paralymian, she’s a FIFTY year old one! Defying preconceived notions of age!
She’s been dreaming of going to the Olympics since she was 7. She came out as in 2018 and is the first out trans woman to compete in the Paralympics.
When she transitioned, she lost about 11 secs of her usual aprint times, and asked about it she said,
❤️❤️ 🤣
Wishing her the best of luck at her events on 9/2 and 9/6!
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why is this the hottest thing i've ever seen
HE SHOWED UP WITH A DUEL DISK TODAY?????
AND ALL FIVE EXODIA PIECES
I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She's wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.
This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.
edit: this is not the olympics. I'm an idiot. it's the USA qualifiers for the olympics, but our boy Lyles has won every race so he's definitely going to be taking Exodia to the Olympics, and i for one cannot wait
Snoop Dogg watching the Skateboarding finals with an unidentified man
i think it's important not to act like the harassment imane khelif experienced is merely misdirected transmisogyny. it really can't be separated from the racism at play. transphobia was the cudgel she was beaten with for the crime of being visibly non white
racism wasn't just an incidental part of it. the reason it happened is because a white woman cried after being bested by a woman of color. imane khelif's racialized status is what made her so vulnerable to those attacks. the fact that she had the out of being cis did not save her from being dragged through the mud on international news
don't get it twisted, it's white supremacist patriarchy all the way down. it just happens that veiling your racism behind transphobic concern trolling over women's safety makes it go down easier in the mainstream right now, but it's the same shit ultimately. if you're a trans woman, if you're a woman of color, and god forbid if you're both (hi) you are a threat to patriarchal standards of womanhood, and you will be subject to the violence of the system trying to enforce itself
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10 pounds says terfs start arguing men have an unfair advantage in knitting next
I know im being "that guy" but he's crocheting. He is not knitting. He is holding a hook and crocheting. Look at the fabric. He is not knitting. Wtf has he got in his mouth tho...
I think it's a tapestry needle? Mother fucker might be that one person that sews in ends in as he goes.
That would make sense. Good for him!
The fact that a terf said “taking women jobs in the home” proves my point terfs are just the political branch of the trad wife movement
#oh btw that’s the insane terf lady who had nazis defending her at her events#and she refused to condemn them being there#she’s also best buds with jkr and the two of them often take turns kissing each other’s asses#tom daley#knitting#crocheting#art#sports#athletes#olympics#olympic games#olympics 2024#2024 olympics#kellie jay keene#posie parker#anti terf#anti radfem#no terfs on my turf#sexism#twitter
the-beacons-of-minas-tirith reblogged
So uh, women are like different shaped potatoes ✍️ and rocks edible? Yet to be determined.
#ma’am I think you’re the one who’s ‘bonkers’#transphobia is truly a brain disease. get well soon#imane khelif#jk rowling#jkr#anti jk rowling#anti jkr#transphobia#intersexism#bullying#bigotry#olympic games#olympics#olympics 2024#2024 olympics#athletes#sports#twitter#anti terf#anti radfem#no terfs on my turf
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Trump is named too. Nail all their asses to the wall.
Don’t you DARE hide these in the tags, @beaniebaneenie, they are accurate as FUCK.
2024 Paris Olympics 📸 Geoff Lowe
Source: instagram.com
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Watching breaking in the olympics has been awesome as a former hip hop dancer, but holy shit. For every person who doesn't know how breaking even works and doesn't think it's a sport, there's ten more who are excited about the men's competition, but absolutely ragging on the women's competitors. My head is actually spinning.
If you don't know about breaking, I need to explain some things:
- The breakers all know one another already, and all respect each other. This includes between the m&f categories. Nicka (silver medalist - women's) and Phil Wizard (gold medalist - men's) have literally competed as a duo.
- The breakers that you think "are better than everyone in the finals" already went through the qualifying trials. They also compete with all the medalists, they also tried out for the olympic teams. They did not make it.
- To that end, every battle is its own battle. They may have done poorly in the qualifying trials, but have beaten the now-gold medalists in other competitions. It's not like swimming where Katy Ledecky will pummel everyone else in the race unless she has an exceptionally off day.
- Related to point 2 - breaking was born in the Bronx. It was also born in the 1970s. Being mad that the demographics don't reflect who you think should be dancing, or being mad that the dance isn't "in touch with its roots" is like being mad that someone modified the recipe for ginger beef. Some of the guys who were competing today are old enough that they were dancing with the same people who invented the sport. I promise that they have crazy respect for how it began and all of its influences.
- Related to point 3 - breaking requires originality. It is a foundational element of the sport to evolve and be creative. It's a sport, but it's also an art form.
- Dancing for three rounds in three separate battles is a lot for any dancer. If you think some of them looked like shit toward the end (I disagree, but whatever) it's because they are tired. Not to mention there were heat warnings in Paris! They still have more athletic ability in their left pinky finger than I've ever had in my whole body - and I was someone who also did street dance!
- The music wasn't decided ahead of time, but the DJs were playing very very popular breaking songs. All of the competitors already know how they go, so if they were scoring low in musicality, it's not because they panicked not knowing the song.
- The athletes have sets made up already, they're not freestyling. They adapt them to the music, but unless they blank in the middle of the competition, they already know which skills they want to show off.
I really doubt that anyone on tumblr is going to care, but Instagram users can't read and YouTube is full of bots. I'm so excited that I got to watch my sport in the Olympics, but my lord people cannot behave.
I read an interview with Raygun (the Australian b-girl) the day before the event and she was never planning to win. She knew she didn't have the athleticism of her younger competitors and had to work around that fact. Which I feel like really changes the vibe of her performance? Like, she didn't do a bad job because she's cringe, she did a good job of the goal she actually had: a performance that represented Australia in memorable ways.
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#many such cases#a cis woman will get harassed for having a short haircut in the bathroom and get think pieces#when that’s just the common experience for trans folks#imane khelif#trans#transgender#transphobia#misogyny#racism#olympic games#Olympics#olympics 2024#2024 olympics#athletes#sports#comic#art
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates winning the gold medal after the Boxing Women's 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 09, 2024.
hang it at the louvre PLEASE.
alice bellandi after winning against israeli opponent in the judo match runs towards her girlfriend to cheer and kissed her in front of an homophobic italian politician, more specifically: the prime minister of Italy.
and her face is absolutely priceless.
Snoop Dogg watching the Skateboarding finals with an unidentified man
the-beacons-of-minas-tirith reblogged
yesterday my flatmate asked what my "olympics schedule" was in terms of what i was planning to watch and when and i was like i can't explain to you how much of a foreign concept that is to me. you don't have an "olympics schedule" in my household you watch whatever happens to be on tv whenever you have a minute of free time and get insanely invested in whatever sport you end up watching. maybe down the line you get so caught up in an event that you start going "i'm sorry i need to have the tv at 8:45pm next tuesday because i need to see the men's sport climbing finals or i'll kill myself" but it's something that has to happen organically you know. that's half the fun
related to this i saw people getting really mad in the bbc’s instagram comments because their feed wasn’t showing enough events where british athletes were competing and i was like oh you guys are actually watching just for team gb? that’s the boring way of doing it. if you end up catching an event where nobody from your country is competing you just pick a completely random athlete based off nothing but vibes and become so invested in their success that within ten minutes you are actively nauseous from stress