Q*Bert Reynolds

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Top notch content. Right up there with his popcorn button on the microwave video.

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If anything I need to rethink how I communicate that I’m not offended by people using social media, but I am offended by hypocrisy. I thought for sure that’s what I typed out. I don’t care that it came off as rude.

OP absolutely thought so. Their exact words were “Sorry my wanting to have the small amount of human contact I have outside my own family on a daily basis is so offensive to you.”.

That’s not even what I was implying. I don’t care how much someone uses social media. I saw a comment on a social media platform about not using social media and couldn’t help but roll my eyes. Then I clicked their profile and saw that they’re averaging more than 100 comments a day for almost a year.

Was it flippant? Absolutely. Was it a gotcha moment? Maybe, but only in the sense that I was planning on pointing out the hypocrisy in implying they don’t use social media on a social media platform, and instead found the exact kind of social media addict that the article describes

You caught me. I’m biased against people who play Word Cookies.

Didn’t say it was offensive. Just pointing out that you are, in fact, using a lot of social media.

The 35k comments in 11 months says otherwise.

This is just a crude early version. Eventually the tiles will be significantly smaller, quieter, and less prone to ripping toes off.

Not saying you’re wrong, but she had a baby at 14 that shares the rapist’s DNA. I don’t think there’s any doubt he did it.

Even simple lies like this stress me out. My method is to just abruptly say, “sorry, I’ve got to go” and hang up. If asked about it later, “I’d really rather not talk about it.” They pretty much never ask about it later though. Zero lies, zero stress, and you don’t have to keep talking on the phone.

And you asked about the NBA, which is basketball.

In baseball, there’s a long history of women playing with men. Lizzie Murphy played in the minors in the 20s. Jackie Mitchel struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in the 30s while playing in the Southern League. Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, and Mamie Johnson played in the Negro Leagues in the 50s. Ila Borders pitched for the St. Paul Saints in the 90s. Eri Yoshida pitched in several men’s leagues over the last decade or so. Stacy Piagno played in the Pacific League a few years ago. Kelsie Whitmore is currently playing in the Atlantic League. There are also several women currently coaching men at the highest levels - Justine Siegal, Bianca Smith, Rachel Balkovec, Alyssa Nakken, Sarah Edwards.

There are none, and I literally just told you why. In sports like basketball, strength is so important that being more skilled than a man isn’t enough to overcome the physical disadvantage women have. It’s not that women are banned from the NBA.

The ability to jump really high is the obvious example in the NBA. Plenty of women are tall. There are plenty who can handle a ball and shoot at that level. But it’s incredibly rare for women to dunk, and that’s something everyone in the NBA can do. Spud Webb, at 5’7", could do it so well he won the slam dunk contest in '86. Meanwhile, only 8 women in the history of the WNBA have done it, and the vast majority of those dunks belong to Brittney Griner, who’s 6’9".

That’s not true. Several cis women play college and professional baseball. The same is true of endurance sports or ones where skill or intelligence are more important than strength. In pretty much every major sport, cis women are absolutely allowed to compete with men, but strength is so important in those sports that being more skilled isn’t enough to make up for the physical disadvantage.

Yes, trans men can and do compete with cis men. It’s not talked about as much because the concern is usually about fairness, and those concerns just aren’t there with trans men. If you’re not able to transition when other boys are going through puberty, you’re always going to be behind on muscle mass, and taking extra hormones to catch up is going to get you banned from competing for the same reason taking steroids will get a cis man banned.

Also, why are you putting women in quotes?

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Did you? Your nuggets of wisdom in this thread are that no one cares about women’s sports, that the reason women don’t try to compete with men is because they’re afraid of the discrimination and abuse they’d face, and when people point out that there’s a very real physical disadvantage that keeps women out of most men’s sports, you drop some condescending accusatory question like “so the best woman sportball is worse than the worst man in sportball?”, which, again, in a thread about trans women in sports, comes off as a gotcha question and an argument against the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports.

I can see reading through your comment history now that you’re clearly not the person I thought I was arguing with, but if you don’t see how your comments in this thread could be taken the wrong way, I don’t know how to help you.

I was going by how often you responded that way. It’s cool though. I’m wrong. You win. Men are better than women or whatever.

Cool. This whole thread is about trans women in sports. When it was brought up that women are allowed to compete with men, you argued that women wouldn’t want to because of the discrimination they’d have to endure, and you seem so excited to point out that men are stronger than women when people tell you why that’s bullshit. Can you see why, in a thread about trans women in sports, that comes off as you trying to have a gotcha moment about how trans women are stronger than cis women and shouldn’t be able to compete with them?