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Comet Melanie Mae – that’s what it says here – is in no way high-maintenance:
My gender changes depending on the day, or week, or even depending on the hour. It also means the pronouns I’m comfortable with can change too.
To avoid a pronoun gaffe, and crushing underfoot the meek and marginalised, you must first check the colour-coded bracelets.
Pink means she/her; yellow means they/them; and blue means he/him.
And because this arrangement isn’t sufficiently complicated, or enough of an imposition on your time and sanity, said bracelets can be combined. It’s fully customisable. So do pay attention.
See also Laurie Penny and her ongoing project of self-description.
Via here.
Y’all are aware that to some degree this has been covered ground? Per wiki:
Watching the US Olympics swimming qualifying last week, Katie Ledecky would have placed in the mid-teens/low 20’s time wise against the men. That said, where I see this going is ultimately the breakdown of performance enhancing drug/hormone rules for both men and women in the future. I think the number of men…”men” looking to transition for athletic advantage will be small. I’m definitely opposed but outside of contact sports it will be harder and harder to stop this in a society, world really, that is spinning off its rails with technology it doesn’t have the maturity not philosophical understanding of the implications for implementing it. People will simply put their heads down and accept whatever random walk reasoning that their betters hand down to them. It’s actually been going on quite some time, we all just try to pretend otherwise.
I’ve become disillusioned about women’s weightlifting.
I think the number of men…”men” looking to transition for athletic advantage will be small.
But it doesn’t take many. Three per sport will ensure that no woman ever wins an Olympic sport again.
I think it will take more than three per sport. At the high ends of these sports, the best women are better than the vast majority of men. Again, most men…”men” are not going to go in that direction. Especially as the lines blur on the rules, the lawyers get in there and abuse the language, and men (and women) will be free to pollute their bodies to their heart’s desire. This will kill sports as we know it. For both men and women.
Hubbard has very little chance of winning a medal even if the stronger countries have been handicapped by only being allowed a single entry in each weight class.
His/her best lifts are around 15kg below the top women (don’t be misled by the silver medal in the 2019 world championships against a laughably depleted field). He/she is reminiscent of the situation in American collegiate sport where mediocre young men, unable to make the grade against their own sex, identify as female to obtain valuable scholarships thereby depriving actual young women. It’s all rather pathetic.
In other sporting news I suppose going full woke and killing your dog with your vegan voodoo bullshit is sapping Sir Hamilton and totally-not-part-of-the-Nazi-war-machine-anymore Mercedes’ ability to win Formula 1 races.
I do wonder how British fans feel about watching their knighted hero gallivant around the world, advocating for American organizations best known for violence and embezzlement, while the good citizens of the UK are forced by their Conservative government to save the NHS and flatten the curve by submitting to imprisonment until Rapture, apparently. Don’t fret, mighty England: it says “We Race As One” right there on the steering wheel, so they’re just like you!
I see Daniel’s holiday was shorter than expected.
Let’s just say I’ve attained some clarity.
[dons fedora and constantly-shifting mask]
Sir Hamilton is part of a growing trend exemplified by the England football team, cricket team, rugby team and doubtless soon by our Olympic competitors whereby self-aggrandising kneeling and virtue signalling is followed by markedly declining performances. .
b) scientists behind it wanting world domination to bring about a utopia
And remember how, in Stephen King’s The Stand, the STEM people all gravitated towards Las Vegas’ totalitarian regime? I used to scoff. Not any more.
I think the number of men…”men” looking to transition for athletic advantage will be small
Except that in many sport jurisdictions, no “proof” of transistioning is required. Mere declaration that one is now a “girl” is sufficient. And the Olympics standard of 12 months of a certain testosterone level is a bad joke.
So there will always be enough males who want the notoriety and cash more than the embarrassment of declaring themselves “female”.
Meanwhile, in Oakland, CA.
self-aggrandising kneeling and virtue signalling is followed by markedly declining performances…
The second part is only important if you still think they represent you, but in the first part they’ve made it clear that they don’t represent you.
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/logic.html
Has anyone here ever met one of these pronoun people? If so, did you get the pronouns du jour right and, if not, what was your punishment?
Meanwhile, in Oakland, CA.
Today’s word is degenerate.
Darleen: That’s a great cartoon. Michael Ramirez is, in my eyes, the inheritor of the mantle of Jeff MacNelly.
Today’s word is degenerate.
This, this, a thousand times this.
Whoever said “all cultures are equal” was a fool. Or worse.
It sounds like she’s a woman, always changing her mind and clothes.
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
though they’re disapproving,
Don’t try to understand them,
Just rope and throw and brand ’em,
Whoever said “all cultures are equal” was a fool. Or worse.
I’d go with “worse”. It’s the sort of thing a person might come up with if that person were trying to undermine the dominant culture so that it could be replaced with something more glorious. A Glorious Cultural Revolution, so to speak.
Now many of the people who nod along with the idea are probably just idiots, but those people would be considered “useful” in the eyes of the sort of person who would coin the phrase to begin with…
Just a normal day in New York City
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
though they’re disapproving,
Don’t try to understand them,
Just rope and throw and brand ’em,
Fortissimo Sostenuto
RAWHIIIIIDE!
Something sweet for a change.
Today’s word is degenerate.
Plural, degenerates.
From Chicago another mostly peaceful Juneteenth.
Puerto Rican flag, Confederate battle flag, meh, they both have stars, so same-same, amirite? A typical bluecheck’s reaction.
From Chicago another mostly peaceful Juneteenth.
It will soon be a felony to point out murderous black racism.
From Chicago another mostly peaceful Juneteenth.
“…use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.”
–John Derbyshire
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.”
Problem is this was near Humboldt Park which is a mostly yte and Puerto Rican neighborhood, and the flag was out for a Puerto Rican festival.
Problem is this was near Humboldt Park which is a mostly yte and Puerto Rican neighborhood…
Humboldt Park is about 40% black and 50% Hispanic and only about 5% white..
…and the flag was out for a Puerto Rican festival.
Exactly. Lots of blacks hate Hispanics*, especially those who are proud of their heritage.
More of Derbyshire’s version of The Talk:
“(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks…
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.”
* If truth be told, they hate everybody, and especially those who are more successful and intelligent than them.
Humboldt Park is about 40% black and 50% Hispanic and only about 5% white..
Old 2015 data, I believe; as it says further down, the area is
being over run by hipstersbeing gentrified.This says 50% Hispanic, 23% wypipo, another source has 57/8 (2014-2018 “sample”), another 55/18. Regardless, also based on personal experience (2002), blacks are a minority there, so why this happened there remains a bit of a mystery.
The last neighborhood I lived in was evenly divided between black, white, and Mexican. We all got along fine. The Mexicans were not too sociable with gabachos of any color, but they were polite and were helpful if you had a problem. This was well before Woke. Post hoc blah blah, but I can’t help but think Woke propaganda is the root problem.
Now I live in a 90/10 white/black area. We too all get along fine.
blacks are a minority there, so why this happened there remains a bit of a mystery
23% is a substantial minority, though. And as I noted before, “friction” between blacks and Hispanics is substantial. Furthermore, Humboldt Park is part of Chicago’s high-crime West Side, although the homicide rate is higher in Garfield Park to its immediate South. It’s only prudent to avoid driving through such neighborhoods, especially at night.
so why this happened there remains a bit of a mystery.
Perhaps because black ghetto rats hate people of other races celebrating their culture? We may learn more about this particular crime in the next few days.
This, this, a thousand times this.
Perhaps the woke hashtag “do better” would be appropriate.
Comparing Ledecky’s times with the Men on the basis of the 1500m is misleading. 1500m is very specific and requires very fast times to be competitive on the world stage. Most swimmers, once they have established they aren’t going to regularly swim close to 15 minutes, aren’t going to keep putting in the very hard work required to maintain the top speeds. The mens’ qualifying is therefore made up of the four or five with an actual chance, a bunch of boys, and some guys who are still doing it for fitness.
If 1500 were a more attractive event, Ledecky would rank about the same against the men as she does in the 400m: 50+ Further, there are a LOT of male swimmers between 3:51 and 3:58 and it would be more if swimming as a professional sport could support more. There’s many hundreds of ex-swimmers out there who would easily break 4m in a return to the pool.
Not to play down Ledecky. She’s an amazing female swimmer. But she’s not quick compared to the men.
Trying to make you walk on eggshells is a standard narcissistic tell.
Today in cretinous bellendry, this:
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1407025496991358981
Has anyone here ever met one of these pronoun people? If so, did you get the pronouns du jour right and, if not, what was your punishment?
I haven’t had encounters with individuals who demanded variable pronouns, but the whole pronoun thing has been going for longer than one might assume.
About eight years ago, I was hauled up before the Head of Sixth Form* because I’d referred to a girl I taught as ‘she’. The girl concerned had declared herself a boy called ‘Tom’, and when she was present, I carefully called her by her new name and refrained from using any pronouns whatsoever apart from ‘you’. But I’d slipped up when talking to some other students (I can’t recall why Tom, who wasn’t present, was mentioned), and someone reported me.
It was made very clear that if I offended again, I’d be in all sorts of trouble, possibly leading to my enforced resignation, so I didn’t. Like many – the majority of people? – I combine cowardice with a reluctance to lie, so since then, I’ve just avoided third-person pronouns altogether when one of the various transgender girls at school is being discussed. (It’s not as bad at my school as at many others, but even so, there are now several.)
By the way, ‘Tom’ left our sixth form, went to a local Further Education College, dropped out from there and disappeared from view. It was a great shame, as she was one of the brightest girls I’d ever taught; but her mental health was fragile.
*For non-UK readers: the Sixth Form comprises the top two years of 11-18 education, equuivalent to the Junior and Senior years in the US High School system. A Further Education College also covers those years, but generally adds on extras such as ‘vocational’ training. These days, some of them are associated with universities and one can take degrees there.
Today in cretinous bellendry, this:
Yet another eminently punchable face.
someone reported me
Isn’t it great how people of self-perceived low status now have the ability to recruit authority to punish non-believers?
If 1500 were a more attractive event, Ledecky would rank about the same against the men as she does in the 400m: 50+ Further, there are a LOT of male swimmers between 3:51 and 3:58 and it would be more if swimming as a professional sport could support more.
Agree. I cherry-picked to some extent because I didn’t have readily available data on the shorter distances showing where she would fit in. That said, across the broader spectrum, the best women are still faster than the majority of men. Ledecky’s wr in the 400 is 3:58.xx and the men’s Olympic qualifying time is 3:57.xx. How many men with that level of dedication and desire and fight in them are willing to upset their entire lives, possibly up to and including chopping off their raison d’être just for a little fame that will bring them what, exactly? The intersection of that Venn diagram is mighty thin. See also the Renee Richards thing. It’s been over 40 years and I haven’t seen anyone try this in tennis in that time. Again, I in no way endorse this. I am adamantly opposed to chicks-with-dicks competing in women’s athletics at any level. I’m even opposed to women voluntarily competing in men’s contact sports where there are no female equivalents. I once mentored a small 9th grade high school wrestler (boy) who often had to wrestle against girls. That was completely wrong.
On another note, in the US Olympic qualifier the announcers made some reference to a swimmer who had “turned pro”. No idea what that was about.
From Chicago another mostly peaceful Juneteenth.
Update: The mother has now died too. So, there is now a dead mother, a dead father, and two young orphans.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “Yasmin Perez, 23, and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Gyovanni Arzuaga, were driving in the 3200 block of West Division Saturday night when they were involved in a minor crash and were ambushed, according to Chicago police.”
Being murdered after a minor auto crash is just one of the good reasons to avoid certain neighborhoods.
How many men with that level of dedication and desire and fight in them are willing to upset their entire lives, possibly up to and including chopping off their raison d’être just for a little fame that will bring them what, exactly?
A man who wants to win women’s sports doesn’t have to upset his life or chop off anything at all. No surgery required. Probably not even any hormone treatment required. Probably not even shaving required. He just needs to put on a dress, stroll in, and announce that he’s a woman now. Once he’s got the fame, scholarships, sponsorships, and so on, then he can just put his pants back on and announce that he’s detransitioned and is a man now. Done.