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

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!

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

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

MANIFEST

MANIFEST

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They are horrible people. But trust me, we do not want the precident set by prosecuting speech like this. "Oh, they said something mean about us" is never a thing that doesn't end up hurting the poor and disadvantaged. It is apallingly easy to fuck up someone's life by just opening a terrible slander/libel suit, even meritless.

Also, America has some of the best (if not the best) free speech laws in the world and we need to tell England to fuck right off with telling us what we can say.

Civil liberties are meaningless unless they also protect people we find detestable. Because I basically guarantee that all of you are detestable to somebody.

But the issue here isn't that they said something mean. It's that they said something libellous.

You can call somebody an asshole. But if, say, you publicly declare in the press that someone is a murderer, you had damn better be able to prove it.

(That's the whole reason journalists always say "the alleged criminal allegedly did" even when everybody knows he is guilty)

Now, obviously there is nothing wrong with being trans.

But

a)that athlete is Algerian, one of the most homephobic countries in the world, where homosexuality is criminalised and the punishment is years in jail. Accusing her of being trans very legitimately puts her life in very serious danger.

b)given the rules of the competition, she'd get disqualified and lose her medal.

I have a question here. Does @necarion think Paris is in England?

The charges are happening under French law. French libel law is NOT like US libel law. (Most of the world's libel laws are broader than the US - they have sharper limits on what's allowed to be said in public.)

Odds of getting prison sentences are low.

Odds of enforcing prison sentences are even lower. Neither the UK nor the US is going to ship these people off to France to go to prison.

I have no idea what the odds of a fine are, but that would be easier to enforce. Especially against Musk, since Xitter does business in France.

So uh, women are like different shaped potatoes ✍️ and rocks edible? Yet to be determined.

Good.

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

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:

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.

she ✌️

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