Tovarich EmmyNoether on Nostr: It drives me mad. It's a concerted campaign of deliberate disinformation and ...
It drives me mad.
It's a concerted campaign of deliberate disinformation and propaganda, and a deliberate misrepresentation of the position of feminists (and indeed any sane person who cares about fairness in sports).
"You're just mean girls who want to police femininity. You don't like Khelif because she's not pretty enough. Look, we can make her look pretty with makeup, filters and a floral dress. See, your argument has fallen apart."
Except that was never the argument.
The argument was regardless of how the athlete's face looks, whether they meet arbitrary standards of feminine beauty as set by the patriarchy, if they have been through male puberty, if they have XY chromosomes, then they should not be in women's sports.
It's a concerted campaign of deliberate disinformation and propaganda, and a deliberate misrepresentation of the position of feminists (and indeed any sane person who cares about fairness in sports).
"You're just mean girls who want to police femininity. You don't like Khelif because she's not pretty enough. Look, we can make her look pretty with makeup, filters and a floral dress. See, your argument has fallen apart."
Except that was never the argument.
The argument was regardless of how the athlete's face looks, whether they meet arbitrary standards of feminine beauty as set by the patriarchy, if they have been through male puberty, if they have XY chromosomes, then they should not be in women's sports.