Water Dog wrote:I just want to take this opportunity to point out that, according to science, Elizabeth Warren being 1/1024 parts Mexican/Columbian/Peruvian is strong evidence that she's a Native American, and a person with XY chromosomes is actually a female. SCIENCE for the win! From the left, the party of science!
No that's not "according to Elizabeth Warren." After all this time you still can't accept basic facts?
But yeah, keep reading your idiot Right Wing blogs.
Water Dog wrote:I just want to take this opportunity to point out that, according to science, Elizabeth Warren being 1/1024 parts Mexican/Columbian/Peruvian is strong evidence that she's a Native American, and a person with XY chromosomes is actually a female. SCIENCE for the win! From the left, the party of science!
Your inability to focus must have had the teachers whispering during your school years. : )
Bless you, canpakes.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Remember back when Andy Kaufman wrestled women and declared himself the intergender wrestling champion of the world?
It was a joke back then. It's reality now. Since this type of stupidity gets associated with liberalism, and too few liberals reject it, stupid issues like this are why Trump will probably win in 2020.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
Res Ipsa wrote:Yep, this is something that sporting organizations are going to have to figure out. My knee jerk reaction is that, since the reason we have men and women's divisions in some sports is differences based on sex, we should stick with sex, and not gender, in those sporting events. But I'm certainly willing to listen to any arguments to the contrary.
My position at present.
Divisions in sport are about different bodies, not different ways of thinking about oneself.
There is a partial parallel with the fact that certain soccer teams now organise their youth teams not by calendar age, but by level of physical development - which can take place at different speeds even amongst people who will end up in about the same place as adults.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Res Ipsa wrote:Yep, this is something that sporting organizations are going to have to figure out. My knee jerk reaction is that, since the reason we have men and women's divisions in some sports is differences based on sex, we should stick with sex, and not gender, in those sporting events. But I'm certainly willing to listen to any arguments to the contrary.
Didn't we already have this argument in tennis a long time ago?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Res Ipsa wrote:Yep, this is something that sporting organizations are going to have to figure out. My knee jerk reaction is that, since the reason we have men and women's divisions in some sports is differences based on sex, we should stick with sex, and not gender, in those sporting events. But I'm certainly willing to listen to any arguments to the contrary.
Didn't we already have this argument in tennis a long time ago?
Res Ipsa wrote:Yep, this is something that sporting organizations are going to have to figure out. My knee jerk reaction is that, since the reason we have men and women's divisions in some sports is differences based on sex, we should stick with sex, and not gender, in those sporting events. But I'm certainly willing to listen to any arguments to the contrary.
Didn't we already have this argument in tennis a long time ago?
I’d completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder. I don’t follow tennis. Has there been a flood of trans women in tennis since she won her case?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Res Ipsa wrote:I’d completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder. I don’t follow tennis. Has there been a flood of trans women in tennis since she won her case?
No, they all play in the WNBA. HEY-O!
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Res Ipsa wrote:I’d completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder. I don’t follow tennis. Has there been a flood of trans women in tennis since she won her case?
No, they all play in the WNBA. HEY-O!
- Doc
Yer killin’ me.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
