Sep. 15th, 2009 11:05 am
Pursuant to my last entry
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textualdevianceNow one of them is flailing around so much that he's now claiming that breasts and vaginas are some sort of handicap or something that prevent women from being able to physically compete against men.
Uh, what?
Last I checked, men were the ones with delicate external genitals that are at grave risk of injury if not properly protected. So why shouldn't we be preventing men from competing in physically demanding sports, so as to keep them from potentially injuring their precious jewels? Why, if we don't protect the testicles, we won't be able to continue the species! We'll all die out! So we'd best lock up the menz so they don't lose a single swimmer.
Also? Most women will at some point in their lives give birth and nurse their children. They will do the physical equivalent of passing a cantaloupe through a garden hose and will willingly stick their boobs in a mouth with sharp little teeth and powerful jaws. Most also lose several ounces of blood every month for ~30 years of their lives, work many more hours per week than men (counting domestic labor) and get less sleep. And yet? We survive this. And we live longer, too.
We're not exactly made of glass. However, a single accidental elbow to a man's groin? He collapses and cries. So tell me again: Who's more qualified to play rough?
Truth be told, I think most of the resistance to women competing against men is because they KNOW women of equivalent size and strength are going to be tougher, and they're absolutely terrified of getting their asses kicked by a girl.
Also, I think a lot of guys are really disturbed by how women now have a fair amount (though still not anywhere near proportionate) of economic and political power--things that used to be their province alone--and are thus clinging to sports as the one remaining area in which they can (pathetically) argue that men are supposed to be naturally dominant. It's like they think that allowing women into a locker room is suddenly going to make every guy's dick fall off or something.
It's kind of like the ridiculously rich complaining about having to pay a whole extra 1% in taxes, because it might mean they can't afford a new Jag this year. Or like how some clueless white folks are dead convinced that the brown people are swarming over our borders with vast armies of anchor babies, just because they want to Take! Our! Jobs! And... I dunno. Put a taco truck on every corner or something. Or the 'phobes desperately clinging to marriage and childrearing as being appropriate only for hets. Or Kristians pissing and moaning about how they're being exterminated because OMG! Muslims and Hindus and atheists exist! And we're not allowed to make them pray to Jeebis!
Like that. Yeah.
Poor babies. Must be so terrifying to go from having 90% of the power in the world down to 70%. Only in the twisted little heads of the entitled would a request for equal opportunity be seen as a demand to bow and scrape. They're honestly just spoiled children who think that being asked to occasionally share a favorite toy is armed robbery. It would be hilarious to watch them throw these tantrums if they weren't causing so much real harm to the people they keep insisting they should be allowed to oppress.
Uh, what?
Last I checked, men were the ones with delicate external genitals that are at grave risk of injury if not properly protected. So why shouldn't we be preventing men from competing in physically demanding sports, so as to keep them from potentially injuring their precious jewels? Why, if we don't protect the testicles, we won't be able to continue the species! We'll all die out! So we'd best lock up the menz so they don't lose a single swimmer.
Also? Most women will at some point in their lives give birth and nurse their children. They will do the physical equivalent of passing a cantaloupe through a garden hose and will willingly stick their boobs in a mouth with sharp little teeth and powerful jaws. Most also lose several ounces of blood every month for ~30 years of their lives, work many more hours per week than men (counting domestic labor) and get less sleep. And yet? We survive this. And we live longer, too.
We're not exactly made of glass. However, a single accidental elbow to a man's groin? He collapses and cries. So tell me again: Who's more qualified to play rough?
Truth be told, I think most of the resistance to women competing against men is because they KNOW women of equivalent size and strength are going to be tougher, and they're absolutely terrified of getting their asses kicked by a girl.
Also, I think a lot of guys are really disturbed by how women now have a fair amount (though still not anywhere near proportionate) of economic and political power--things that used to be their province alone--and are thus clinging to sports as the one remaining area in which they can (pathetically) argue that men are supposed to be naturally dominant. It's like they think that allowing women into a locker room is suddenly going to make every guy's dick fall off or something.
It's kind of like the ridiculously rich complaining about having to pay a whole extra 1% in taxes, because it might mean they can't afford a new Jag this year. Or like how some clueless white folks are dead convinced that the brown people are swarming over our borders with vast armies of anchor babies, just because they want to Take! Our! Jobs! And... I dunno. Put a taco truck on every corner or something. Or the 'phobes desperately clinging to marriage and childrearing as being appropriate only for hets. Or Kristians pissing and moaning about how they're being exterminated because OMG! Muslims and Hindus and atheists exist! And we're not allowed to make them pray to Jeebis!
Like that. Yeah.
Poor babies. Must be so terrifying to go from having 90% of the power in the world down to 70%. Only in the twisted little heads of the entitled would a request for equal opportunity be seen as a demand to bow and scrape. They're honestly just spoiled children who think that being asked to occasionally share a favorite toy is armed robbery. It would be hilarious to watch them throw these tantrums if they weren't causing so much real harm to the people they keep insisting they should be allowed to oppress.
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Heaven forbid we start breaking down those untouchable, unbreakable categories. My favorite is to look at the marathon. I give it five years or less before a woman beats a man for the world record.
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