The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."
It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.
This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.
Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.
I bring up Paula Radcliffe because she was targeted despite HAVING KIDS and being very conventional looking as if that should matter.
The only thing she did wrong was train better and be a total badass who could lay down sub fives til the end of time. Amazing runner. She was just ... good.
And we know girls can't be good, right?
People talking about "shoulders too square" and "elbows too pointy"
Why enable this? It's so sexist.
It's an old internet meme based on this forum where men would post photos of women and criticize their bodies. Often very attractive women.
"I would never sleep with her, elbows too pointy"
@disorderlyf @futurebird oof, until you said that I thought the concept of pointy elbows as a ridiculous body critique was hilarious.
Ur right.
Right. But I will still laugh at them forever and ever.
In 2009 I saw a great art piece where a college-aged woman had labeled a photo of herself in maybe shorts and a bikini top with things men had told her about her body and which man said them. It unlocked something for me to see that in the same year one boyfriend had told her her boobs were too big and a date said they were too small.
It was in some ways freeing to see it out in the open, but depressing too. We have to talk about it, or it works.
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