They only like women in sports if they think they are fuckable
They know the women’s hockey team are tougher than they could hope to be, and they hate what they fear
Go be a fly on the wall in a right wing chat. They hate women. They scare them. If the have them, they hate their wives. They hate their lives. They hate anything that forces critical thinking. It is almost comical.
They’re also the “pro-lifers” who couldn’t actually give a shit about the life of a child once it’s born. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps kiddo, time to justify the existence that was forced upon you
It’s almost as if the Venn diagram of those people and the ones who mock the WNBA is a circle.
i don’t get it
There are a few different things you need to know to get this, so it’s hard to blame you.
The first is that there is a prominent and very loud transphobic community of people who cry about “women’s sports”, where what they really mean is “trans women aren’t women and shouldn’t be allowed to be in women’s spaces”, but they couch it in notions of fairness in sport. You know it’s not legitimate concern because of how often they’ve gone after cis women who just happen to look a little too masculine for their misogynistic tastes.
You also need to know that Donald Trump, the US president, has been closely tied to these loud transphobes.
The third thing is that at this year’s Winter Olympics, the US teams won both the men’s and women’s ice hockey competition.
Following that win, Donald Trump called the men’s team and invited them to meet him at the White House, after the State of the Union. He derisively joked with them:
And we have to, I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that. I do believe I probably would be impeached [if the women’s team was not invited].
We know this because one of the men recorded the call and posted the video online. Many of the men were heard laughing in response to Trump’s sexist joke. One or two of the men posted after-the-fact that the men should not have reacted like that. Whether it’s sincere or face-saving, I’ll leave up to the reader.
So we’ve got Trump, a member of the “protect women’s sports” movement, caught vocally deriding successful women athletes. Almost like the “protect women’s sports” movement is actually just an “exclude trans women from society” movement.
Thank you for giving the full play-by-play.
Completely necessary.
That was the joke? The racist uncle at Thanksgiving bitching and moaning about a societal expectation to treat people with respect even if you don’t agree with their choices, thinly veiled as a “joke?”
He didn’t want to invite out the women’s team, or any women’s team for that matter, because they’re not likely to be Trump supporters and he can’t handle having his feelings hurt.
Thanks, didn’t know all that jazz! What an absolute looser attitude (but maga got to maga I guess…).
They both won, kind of crazy too, congrats!
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What’s funny about “There are a few different things you need to know to get this, so it’s hard to blame you.”?
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A single sentence can be a paragraph, but you need to not be brain damaged to understand that, so I don’t blame you.
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What? You are aware that sentences make up paragraphs, right? Just as words make up sentences, and letters (or phonemes, if we’re doing spoken word) make up words.
The first sentence of this comment is “What?” Yeah, it’s also a word. That doesn’t stop it being a sentence.
You don’t understand: it’s important that only dainty trad women play women’s sports because otherwise my favorite manly men (🥵) might be threatened. My whole identity is the patriarchy plz don’t take this from me…
Maybe, but sexism is a Christian value.
This is such low hanging fruit.
If you don’t understand that by now, no messaging will get to you.
It’ll look violent if one’s tampoon/cup spills out in the rink.
When it violates one’s ideology to value WOMEN as equally-valid human-lives, then … why would they violate their tribe’s culture, & therefore their-own tribal-validity??
It isn’t women’s SPORTS they don’t value,
it is WOMEN they don’t value as equal-validity people.
Sports is just a subcategory of their non-valuing, not the basis of it.
( same as the condescension of the middle-class & upper-middle-class left contempt their inferiors, automatically, implacably: tribal-prejudice’s tribal-prejudice, in all cases. It isn’t something that only-some-tribes do, on only-1-side of the political-spectrum. )
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