This is NOT a political issue & shouldn't be made into one. It's physics & human anatomy. Sophie Cunningham is correct.
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The fastest woman in history is Florence Griffith-Joyner, fabulously known as Flo-Jo 🏃🏾♀️ 💅
Her world record in the 100 meter dash is an astonishing 10.49 seconds. This record has stood completely untouched for decades & still stands today 🥇
When compared to professional men, Flo-Jo's all-time historic speed is heavily outmatched by the biological & physiological realities of male sprinting mechanics.
At the professional Men's Level, Flo Jo would be UNRANKED. According to World Athletics data, over 1,900 men have run faster than Flo-Jo’s 10.49 second women's world record. Her time would fail to qualify for any standard professional or NCAA men’s track meet.
Her 10.49-second mark aligns perfectly with the elite U.S. high school boys' level.
76 high school boys ran faster than Flo-Jo's record in 2019 alone.
It's nowhere near fair to amazing women athletes that work hard their whole lives to compete against biological men.
WNBA player wants the WNBA dismantled. Because it’s not fair if men want to play it and can’t. That would be mean. And she says men’s desires matter more than having a WNBA.
Men’s wants matter! Who needs a WNBA anyway? It’s mean. It doesn’t include male players. 🙄🙄🙄
His whole life his temper tantrums have been catered to. Until they weren’t. Now this kid is facing real charges. Playing these pronoun games taught these kids that if they just throw enough of a tantrum people will do anything they want. Bad lesson.
@ShawnElizabet15@REDFMCALGARY I hope they do but I don’t think it’s happened yet. I work in an adjacent field and just met someone who finished his studies as a medical office assistant in May, didn’t get an approved PGWP, so applied as a refugee claimant and was approved. Now he stays for another year or two
Imagine a group of white people saying that they know what it’s like to “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.
Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help black people. Imagine them having taxpayer-funded operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features.
Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s better than being born black.
Imagine them being referred to as black in the press and supported by celebrities, with laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.
Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement.
Then imagine them getting their way.
Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them to drown out any speakers with noise, and coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.
Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.
Now imagine the government supporting their demands.
That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in formerly female-only spaces.
Our greatest oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that not just include, but prioritize them.
If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.
Seeing the despicably cruel, heartless and abusive way that many people in UK and US have responded to the deaths of conservative politicians, Ann Widdecombe and Lindsey Graham, reminds me that the least kind people on earth are ironically those on the #BeKind woke left.
@KaskaJessica@douglasmclellan No woman calls her former last name her “dead name”. It’s either maiden name or former last name. We also don’t freak out when someone uses our former name.
I stayed silent until now. I gave @msrachelforlitt the benefit of the doubt because she claims to “care about children.” But after seeing her justify the forced hijab on little girls, I am furious. I am absolutely disgusted.
I was one of those children. I never chose the hijab. It was forced on me, and it stole my childhood.
I watched other kids run free while I baked in the heat, suffocating under fabric that restricted every move.
I dreamed of skating with the wind in my hair, of playing without limits, of simply looking like every other child.
Those little girls today are not choosing anything. They are being robbed of their freedom, their joy, and their innocence, all so adults can push a political agenda.
@msrachelforlitt, do you even grasp the misery you’re defending? Do you understand the pain of a child who just wants to feel the sun on her skin and live without chains?
Shame on you. Shame on you for twisting abuse into “choice.” Shame on you for normalizing the oppression of children to protect your ideology.
You are a complete disgrace.
@rupasubramanya I work in an immigration adjacent field. Daily I see “refugee” men who left their wives and children back home. It’s extremely rare that I see a woman with her kids who came to Canada and left their husbands back home.
My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
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