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This whole thing has got me feeling pretty blue ngl. A lot of people are so transphobic that they'll believe an obvious lie.
Not to mention this takes away from the woman who won. Just another example of transphobia hurting cis women.
The whole thing is so nasty and I hate it.
I feel so terrible for the poor woman that won. She's at the fucking Olympics after coming from rural Algeria. I can't even imagine how hard she's worked to get there and now she has to deal with all this
Yeah I read a bit about her, how she grew up in desperate poverty but wanted to be a boxer. She would sell scrap metal as a teenager to have bus fare to go train in the next town over.
Like it's sports movie stuff. She's a genuine miracle story and now instead of celebrating her athletic achievement and motivation, she's an object to spread transphobia even though she's a cis woman.
This is part of the movie where her rivals start making shit up because they're sore fucking losers. But she owned that Italian. She owned that Hungarian. Just one more W from getting gold.
after the olympics opening we got a new wave of trans hate, culture warriors got on their high horses, it was another validation moment like 'oh shit people really do suck and here it is out in the open again', straight up hate coming out, people should think for themselves instead of repeating talking points that are deployed for political engagement, why does it even work?
I definitely feel sadness about this whole sort of thing, but knowing that the person they are accusing of "beating up women" is a cis woman herself, it gives me some hope that the haters will be shamed by most regular people for being so goddamn ignorant and hateful like usual. It doesn't appear to me that most people care much about this stuff, so it doesn't help the reactionaries recruit much, though a fervent minority can cause a lot of damage.
Fascist's choice of victim is arbitrary. It's informed by the social norms of the day, but they can pick anyone to be the villains of their brutal passion play. It doesn't matter that she's cis. That's not what this is or ever has been about. Fascists, to fulfill their ideology, need an enemy who is external to them, who they can position as a strong, virulent threat to society but also as pathetic and weak. They pick some group in society that lacks the social cachet to defend themselves, then pump that group up as a threat. Then the fash destroy their designated victims so the fash can feel strong defeating their enemies.
They don't care about biology or science or gender or anything. They care about being strong, and being afraid, and about finding joy in hurting people who can't fight back.