Wow⌠the menâs soccer team failed, so âallâ of the USA âfailed.â
The sheer audacity.
Megan Rapinoe is using her platform to argue against people who say they âcare about womenâs sportsâ but only when it comes to trans women and girls:
Strict sex segregation was introduced in 1921 to protect menâs football after WW1, not to protect women.
Itâs difficult to tell from a player at her peak 100 years ago with few filmed games, but from the written descriptions Lily Parr may have been good enough for the England mens team. She was definitely being scouted by some big name mens league teams.
Boo. Reminds me of this:
Wow. WTAF.
And depending on the artificial implants he put into her body without consent, thereâs always a risk of medical problems requiring further surgery. Is he going to pay for that? Or live with the medical risks of that? Yeah, no.
Not shocking, actually. When my wife had bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction, the surgeon âtook the libertyâ of adding an extra 50 cc to the prosthetic âfor cosmetic outcome.â She was not terribly pleased.
Thatâs a terrible series of events in her life. The ending of this article was odd, though. I wish that the whole âdefense of Woody Allenâ angle would stop being raised with every actor who has appeared in his films. Repeatedly reporting that he was professional and appropriate with some doesnât mean he was incapable of behaving differently with others. Itâs not a difficult concept to grasp, and every time I see it, it makes me wonder about the people bringing it up and why theyâre so invested in pushing positive messages about him.
Is this the time to bring up the whole problem with reconstruction surgery being covered by insurance ONLY if itâs a woman with breast cancer? Itâs so so very important for her breasts to appear ânormalâ to men â the man in her life plus even strangers on the street â that even though it is not necessary for medical treatment in any way, and similar plastic surgery after other forms of cancer is not covered, this one particular scenario is special.
Please tell me there are ways to report that beyond the realm of the Internet. Thatâs a real violation. 
I agree. It had no reason to be there, other than to defend Woody Allen.
Right? I can only imagine itâs a defense of âwhite male geniusâ that has allowed white men to get away with some truly heinous shit because people get the feels from their work. Lars Von Trier, Iâm looking at you.
Maybe. We didnât, mostly because there were far more important things going on. Almost as soon as she was recovered from her diagnosis and surgery, I was diagnosed with colon cancer, so it was a whirlwind year. We had thought 2018 would be âthe worst year ever.â Sigh, little did we knowâŚ
People claiming trans women will take over womenâs sport clearly have never been to roller derby.
Most derby is highly inclusive⌠and cis women arenât being dominated or pushed out by trans women. It is, as Rapinoe points out, lack of funds and space that are the threats, not letting various people play.
And anyone who thinks womenâs sports arenât as physical and bloody as menâs has never been to derby. Itâs punishing. It takes strength and endurance⌠all those things that trans women will supposedly out do cis women at. Yet, funnily, it just hasnât seemed to happen. Hmm⌠wonder why? Could it be that this supposed athletical prowess of the trans woman and her ability to destroy womenâs spaces might be a myth?
Yes, yes, itâs a myth, in case that wasnât clear.
Itâs based on the other myth of âdelicate, fragile and vulnerable women-folk in need of big, strong men to protect them.â Any male who grew up with sisters already knows better than than. Any male who participated in sports in which women were equally competitive (I was a swimmer) knows better. In short, most males know better. It is just a convenient way to shit on a vulnerable minority. But you all knew that already.
I know a few women who attended my high school who could definitely knock me on my ass in soccer.
I currently play in a co-ed soccer league (an over 30 league with the Houston Womenâs Soccer Assoc, lots of fun). Hasnât been long at all since a woman knocked me on my ass on the pitch. In none of the coed leagues that Iâve played in through the years, was the specter of trans women somehow unfairly hindering cis women ever even mentioned. Its almost like its just a made up problem that never existed.
Kind of like when a girl joined my high school football team. The football coach was furious and ranted and raved about how it would ruin everything, but she played and nothing at all got ruined
It also makes no sense on an economic level. In most sports a moderately successful man will make more money that all but the top women. The prize money is also higher, as I pointed out last year.
Transitioning to a woman is a bad move in sports unless you genuinely are trans.
Besides that, if the sex segregation was lifted in association football then women will inevitably play in what is now the mens game. Itâs a combination of skills, being the strongest, fastest or tallest is never enough to make a successful player.
The first female Egyptian ship captainâŚso you know what happened when the Ever Given was in trouble.
She was hundreds of miles away on a different boat at the time:
