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In Praise of Strong Women
The pretty little lady pictured on the right is the new Alberta women’s bench press record holder for the 84KG+ weight class and I hope we see more women like her setting records in the future. Granted, she is not the most feminine lady out there, but it took a lot of balls to do what she did.
The new women’s champ is Avi Silverberg. Before and after the competition (but not during), Avi identified as a man because . . . he is a man. However, recently the Canadian Powerlifting Union declared that whether you compete in the men’s or women’s division was a matter of self-identification. Soon after that, trans lifter Anne Andres became the bench press record holder. (Click here for a video of Andres complaining that women stink at bench, not because they have less upper body mass than men, but because they don’t try hard enough.)
Anyway, Mr. Silverberg did not like the fact that Andres knocked an actual woman out of the record book. As a form of protest against the “self-identify” policy, he decided to break the ladies’ record for himself. He did not seem to struggle at all while breaking the record.
I really like this story. It is a story of one woman topping the record of another woman without either of them being women. It makes no sense, but that’s the point. If common sense doesn’t work, perhaps ridicule will. Play by their rules and see what happens. It’s worth a shot.
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At least two.
Well, that’s a lot for a girl.
I wonder if there is a prize or trophy and what will happen with those.
RE Anne Andres: why does he need to change his name to pretend to be a girl? How does that matter? Is that going to convince us?
Hat’s off to Avi for stomping on the loser.
This is what asterisks are for.
It was bound to happen. Love it!
Am really hoping he will announce that he is going to share the prize with the third-place winner (assuming she’s not trans).
Gay and Trans is what women want. They have been supporting it and expanding it all my life. There are a significant share of them that push the voting and the destroying of anybody that disagrees with them. Let them have it. Let them give their children to this perversion.
Have these putzes no shame?
I spent many hours with a paranoid schizophrenic friend, and she was not as crazy as the trans people and those “treating” them.
The loopy logic of the pronouns is impossible to follow.
I cannot figure out what the trans people are looking for in life. Is it social acceptance? Is that what they hope to gain by using the opposite sex’s restrooms and locker rooms and by joining the other sex’s sports teams?
I just do not understand any of this.
Old school, before Siri, way of getting an answer.
I still think the first hurdle here is that nobody can know that they “should be” the opposite sex, because nobody knows how that feels. All they can know is that they don’t feel right how they are, which is the A-#1 cry for psychiatric help. Not chemicals or surgery.
Oh, and:
Longer version:
This is a superficial answer but I think it’s, as WC put it elsewhere, the result of narcissism and nihilism. I’d say just to stand out, be special, and to find a sort of identity and meaning for one’s life.
I’m not sure this is always so. Lot’s of people I have read of knew they wanted to be an actor, or a pianist, or a scientist or pilot from an early age, say 5. I think the old actor George Alexander knew he wanted to be an actor at age six and that’s just what he did. That doesn’t mean that they know what it’s like to be one. But they find out when they get there. On the other hand, I personally know a guy who wanted to be a pilot from the age of 5 or 6, got his eyes fixed at 13, graduated Embry-Riddle at 23 and never looked at an airplane again. He ended up detransitioning to be a hotel concierge.
Pretty different situations. Not least because, if you decide you don’t want to be a pilot after all, it’s not like you had your arms chopped off and replaced with wings, or something.
I don’t know what you’re speaking of here. What I wrote is pretty clearly a counter response, saying that if someone hasn’t experienced something, one can still want it, and look forward to being it, and successfully be it.
The difference, or at least one difference, as I was saying, is that while one doesn’t know what it feels like to be a pianist, for example, until one tries being one, changing one’s mind after trying or achieving it isn’t likely to be as serious a problem as having one’s breasts or penis/testicles cut off, or having had artificial hormones for years, etc.
Also, out of necessity, one may have seen other people – both male and female – being pianists etc. Nobody has ever seen a male giving birth, or a female impregnating another female, etc.
All I’m saying is that a person can know they want to be something without ever having experienced it.
No, they can’t. They can THINK they want to be something.
Reminds me of this winsome lass who was in the news a few years ago.
What schmucks!
My name is Lia Thomas and I approve of this message …
You nailed it, Marci. Trans is a mental disorder. We shouldn’t normalize it. We should attempt to heal it.
Or stamp it out, since it’s being weaponized.
It is getting harder and harder for South Park to come up with episodes – they stopped being humor and started becoming prophecy.
We should turn to the ultimate authority on such matters, Titania McGrath:
I’m glad somebody said it. This is totally wacko.