MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Transgender beats woman - progress!
By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:55am |Important for converted guys/Afghanistan vets to be able to choke women fairly in MMA competition, since they/we suffer so much blowback doing this at home. Good way to overcome PTSD. Yay sports!
(yeah, it's pretty awful to be agreeing with Gateway pundit)
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"I'm just a Girl"
https://youtu.be/PHzOOQfhPFg
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:05am
But spectator sports have always had this awful ugly basis: deep down it's always about beating the other "guy" or team physically or humiliating them mentally. You're just upset you think they've changed the categories into unfair ones. Well, "fair" was all just basically a thing the British empire created, the gentlemanly arts, etc., all the rules for "play". So that you have cognitive dissonance that there's "fairness" about games that are actually about brutality of one human or one team against another. To make it an more "equal" contest in any game just extends it and makes it more palatable to those who'd rather not admit what it's really all about.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:13pm
p.s. I am simplifying for a point, of course, as there are other applicable empire systems in history like ancient Greeks with Olympics and the Roman coliseum "bread and circuses" gladiator contests...
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:27pm
Uh, you lost me.
https://youtu.be/glpIgnmKrZc
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:23pm
1) not all sports are brutal
2) many sports are race against the clock or the course, or otherwise outshining the opponent (gymnastics, diving, figure skating...)
3) a basic to competitive sports is that they're all largely in the same class. Boxers, wrestlers, judo, etc. all are relatively of similar in size so there's some semblance of a contest. Even MMA.
4) when a Wilt Chamberlain comes along, they/we usually change the rules to make them more competitive again. Chamberlain did nothing wrong, but the sport required balance.
5) ever since Bobby Riggs as a 50-something year old washed up male beat the top women's player that there's a distinctive difference between testosterone-supplied bodies and women, with disadvantage female.
6) so we continue to have female leagues to allow reasonably fair competition for women's sports. Perhaps the Williams sisters could have held their own with some of the men during their prime, but it's still th exception that makes the rule.
7) adding transgender players to the mix completely destroys female sports and the ability to field close stimulating competition. It's not quite Putin slamming a kid's arm during arm wrestling, but it's often close.
8) somewhere on the way to finally putting resources towards women's sports with significant turnout (more than just tennis, such as recent soccer leagues and the decent freestyle skateboarding), we threw a wrench in the spokes by allowing transitioning "women" to compete as women despite having much more body mass, muscle strength, testosterone, and other advantages, such as not having to endure a week of menstruation each month to hamper your training.
9) the Afghanistan vet transformed into "female" MMA fighter is indeed *not* what it's about, even though MMA fighters come in a few different size. MMA fans aren't looking for Conor McGregor to face off against Paris Hilton or Serena Williams - they want another similarly equipped brute. Similar for the reverse - a hot shot female MMA fighter or whatever other competition should be against a reasonably matched performer. This doesn't "drag it on" - it creates real competition even if life isn't completely fair and balanced.
10) and no, i don't watch many sports, but used to enjoy watching 300 pound Otis Taylor crush the opposition. You might find a few girls to play MLB, but i wouldn't suit one up for NFL except maybe the extra point team. Similarly, i wouldn't allow Otis Taylor with a vjay to intrude on women's football. This isn't from being old fashioned or squeamish - just think women deserve a league of their own - and not overloaded to fill society's other battles.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:22am
Here's what can happen with your wholesome violence-free sports:
There should be social workers or violence interrupters at every Utah soccer game in case arguments break out?
I said "spectator sports" for a reason. The idea is for the "fans" to get passionately addicted to a team or a single athelete's prowess, the more passionate emotions involved the better. Let it all hang out if your team or guy or gal gets what you think is a bad ruling from the ref or loses a game! Heck even some victory celebrations get violent...
In high school, I saw the most popular team sports and the related "pep rallies" as intimately tied in with support for the Vietam war. Training for cannon fodder by boot-camp-sargent coaches and unquestioning patriotic support from the fans back on home terrority, my school is better than yours we're gonna "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!"
Of course it's a replacement for real war and it's human nature so it's never going away blah blah blah. That doesn't mean I have to like it! Most spectator sports turn my stomach just like yours was turned by this match. My point was just that. I don't like capitalism manipulating this particular trait of human nature. You think it's okay as long as their are rules making sure the participants are equally matched. Well, such rules doesn't stop my stomach from turning, it's the whole principle being sold.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:24pm
heck my meme was just reinforced by your own photos which appeared to me again while posting the above comment. That person, male or female or whatever, is a warrior, that's what it wants to do: war.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:29pm
I think you mean "stadium sports", where the hooligans come out. Not a lot of warlike behavior in golf tournaments or Wimbledon. Not even a lot of warlike emotion or skirmishes at stockcar races. Hell, even major league baseball pales compared to say Big 10 football - 100k students packed in a stadium on a Saturday afternoon watching knights in plastic armor bashing each other around...
No surprise that patriotic "America fuck yeah!" won out over Take A Knee. Blood sports need focus and continuity. Traumatic Brain Injury is just gravy.
And yes, even a buff MMA chick will have an impossible time against an ex-Afghanistan male soldier, whatever his current anatomical configuration. Chokehold indeed.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 3:25pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:46am
If you have interest in truly understanding why transgender activists can be some of the nastiest activists, especially towards J.K. Rowling types - and I would totally understand if one doesn't - I found this article is incredibly clarifying without even mentioning any of that. Understanding what went on in the recent past with the small world of scholarship and treatment in the field is crucial to understanding the whole thing:
The Truth about Autogynephilia by Helen Joyce @ Quillette.com, Sept. 7
It's not really a political article arguing one way or another per se, it's more of a history that explains a lot of current developments.
What it does make clear, at least for me, is that attributing psychological problems of many pre-teens and children to gender dsysphoria is a fad that is incorrect diagnosing things except for a few rare cases.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 12:11pm
Found at the site in the comments (unrelated) the case for specialized education:
https://geary.substack.com/p/why-school-choice-is-mostly-a-distraction/c...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 1:14pm
there's a money sentence in that long piece, both figuratively and literally:
Simply put, the more affluent can buy access to better peer groups and selective schools, more geared to their child’s abilities special needs and limitations.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 1:35pm
Flip it on its head - the affluent can buy access so their kids are able to do what they're good at and interested in. I think people are prone to a few areas in general, and clustering knowledge around that early can make a happier, more productive person than the theoretical generalist. The number of kids dashed against the ramparts of mathematics early is heartbreaking, both because most people don't use 1/10th of the fancy math, and because much like statistics can be learned later. (yes, I've requited young ones of Calculus, but again, only to pass a requirement, not to fill a career or avocational need or interest.)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:09pm