do u remember when the wider feminist position on gendered sport was that we should abolish it, and that women’s accomplishments can be measured side by side (& indeed, neck and neck) with men’s? what the fuck happened to that? (*whispering* i know what happened. it was the terf movement.)
literally no feminist ever argued for the abolishment of sex segregation in sports. do you people just think sexual dimorphism isn’t real or
Not every sport selects for high testosterone. Some sports have been segregated because when they were mixed women beat men. We also know by now that “sexual dymorphism” isn’t actually the main determinant factor for success in sports, money is. And the fact that women always get the short end of the stick when it comes to access to training facilities, finance, and even investigation into what training methods work best, is not a biological issue but rather a systemic social one. Hope this helps.
We absolutely did argue to end sex segregation in sports! I still argue that! It was the popular take on here for a long time! There should be a skill and segregation not a sex based one
And before you say “but then women would never win” the reason we have sex segregation in sports is because men got upset when women beat them. Which happened when they were allowed to compete directly
Not every time but that’s because no one wins everytime
But this is something feminists argued for for a long time
Yeah as someone who was there I can confirm abolishing gender segregation in sports was The Feminist Stance for years and it ONLY switched when TERFs and radfems decided to take “women are weaker than men” and make it ~progressive~ so they can keep their rancid racism, transphobia, and intersexism train going. Growing up I remember arguing with my step-dad over this very topic in like 2005. If you went back to the mid-aughts and insisted to a room full of feminists that we have to keep women’s sports separate because men have biological advantages over us poor weak females you’d get labeled a conservative and promptly shown the door. If they were feeling kind that day, anyway.
The idea that “gender segregated sports are good actually” is VERY NEW and you should never forget that it’s a massive step backwards that goes against everything feminisim was building towards. The argument was very much “women are just as good and often BETTER than men at sports and the only reason we’re kept separate is because the patriarchy knows that and wants to deny us power and acclaim” and we should really go back to that for everyone’s sake. Like Katie Ledecky is so good she can’t even practice around the guys because she destroys their self-confidence, we do not need separate categories for men and women. All it does it make women’s sports get viewed and treated as lesser in every conceivable way so a bunch of rich, misogynistic dudes don’t have to worry about their players losing motivation when a girl beats them at the only thing they’re good at.
Anyway fuck TERFs, SWERFs, and radfems, I’m sick of seeing things that were like basic feminist stances(mixed gender sports, free the nipple) being rewritten for the sake of bitter neo-conservative cis perisex white women who wouldn’t know an actual progressive talking point if it punched them in the fucking face.
also it’s racist as hell! when women are too Fragile and Disadvantaged to compete against men without being Victimized then you see women of color constantly being attacked as brutish and masculine abusers of the more valued and ‘feminine’ white competitors who actually have enormous structural advantages and still sometimes lose anyway.
ok im a fucking genius and i dont get enough credit for it so this is me holding my own hand and telling myself im the smartest specialest princess ever because WHAT THE FUCK
“if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything”
the poverty line is set so low that many people living in difficult conditions are actually not considered ‘poor’ by the government?
Rs 1,632 per month for rural areas
Rs 1,944 per month for urban areas
This means if someone earns Rs. 55 per day, they are not considered poor!
the finance ministry is blind to how much indians actually earn and how much is needed to actually survive- remember, we haven’t had the census yet, so no data available.
this govt is lying blatantly at this point and people are cheering for it.
indian gov really is one of the most incompetent in the world like genuinely. in the yr of our lord 2025 we still have people moving whole ass STATES to access healthcare lol.
but nahhh reclaiming temples is more important (only for hindus tho bc india is just hindus guys trust no muslims jains sikhs or buddhists in my hindutva homeland)/s
This actually kinda pisses me off, you dont get to tell me i didn’t miss anything when i was a husk of a person walking around in some sad dudes body one slip up away from killing myself
Sure being a girl in highschool probably would have sucked as well but why am i not allowed to dream about that life
Seriously im sick of mentioning an experience im sad i didnt get and people going “oh it actually sucks dont worry” fuck off i didnt get to be a real person in highschool.
I dont care if something sucked maybe I still want that experience even if it was shit
