politics
Friday, August 9, 2024
Spooky would be a good choice for vice president under kamala haris
Saturday, August 10, 2024
I feel like everyone would be sated, if some doctor came out and said "yeah he has a penis"
all the genetics shit and arguing XY vs XXY vs XXXY or w/e
intersex shit is essentially 1:1000000, the odds that one of them is deranged enough to want to become an Olympic boxer is such a corner case that I don't think there reasonably would have been rules around it
I think the boxer has a penis
I think they're from Algeria? I really haven't followed and don't really care about women's olympic boxing ngl
it feels weird to have someone with a penis box in the womens' league
and I don't think that's crazy
but people are coming up with the most retarded arguments
because they want a scientific basis for their gut feeling
and THAT's where people get retarded
there's value in having separate womens and mens leagues, and I feel like most honest people will agree with that
but then we have a (not insignificant) number of women who have weird genetic anomolies that make them outliers
in a way that's too similar for the psuedoscientific reasons we claim there are deltas between the two sexes
The only mixed sport is equestrian
unless I'm missing one
no really, other than mixed tennis doubles
Equestrian is the only sport I think where men and women compete on even grounds
idk if there are mixed ping pong doubles
for shooting specifically, very possible
men dominate bowling
since ball rpm matters a lot
ok, Loveland is right
Women actually have a statistical edge in shooting, but it's close enough that they could be mixed
but there are just so many more men, it made sense to have a women's league as well
it's an issue because we've distilled pop science into "man == testosterone, women == estrogen "
which is barely true
and regulated the amount of test that women can have to compete
doping is such a meme too
because you find whatever metabolite gives you an edge that's not banned
and when it does get banned in response, you just switch to another
but I do think this current issue
the boxer has a penis
and I think that's why people are a bit extra incensed
I'm not saying male, it probably is long odds XXY or XXXY
and they have either both sex organs or have ill-formed ones
but how do you square weird edge cases like that
it's unfair to make them say "I'm a genetic freak of nature and am neither gender"