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No, not the opening ceremony insult to Christians worldwide. I am talking about the women's boxing event.
Yeah. I don't like the concept of "Women's Boxing" either. I'd rather see competition along the lines of "Women's Baking." Or "Women's Crafting." Or even "Women's Remodeling and DIY" (a forum in which even I might medal).
The current brouhaha seems designed to do nothing besides amplify the artificial confusion over the matter of what it is that makes a woman.
Here's the deal:
XX Chromosomes--biological woman
XY Chromosomes--biological man
End of story.
Not according to IOC spokesX Mark Adams:
But I hope we’re all agreed we’re not calling for people to go back to the bad old days of sex testing, which was a terrible thing to do and I’m sure we all agree that’s not the way forward in this situation.
Sorry. I don't agree. As long as you have a binary SEX distinction between what "Men" are and what "Women" are in your events, I think doing so is on you. When you have 57 — or 92, or whatever the number is these days — different "gender" events for each sport, then perhaps things might be different.
But, you don't. And they aren't.
Please tell me what is so wrong about the "bad old days" of sex testing (which would surely determine, without equivocation, whether or not these two apparent "men" have been put in the right bucket, when it comes to their eligibility for "men's" or "women's" events).
I'll wait.
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I really wish Mark would explain precisely WHY sex testing was a terrible thing to do.
C'mon Mark. Educate me. Because I don't understand.
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He just gets off seeing actual women get crushed by fake women. It is an illness. He has self-identified, so he will not require testing. Just reeducation.
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And then there is this idiot. Who is going to tell him about a scientific way to define a woman so that he can look into it? Sheesh.
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I'm bummed. I decided to blow off the Olympics due to Lebron "the Kneeler" James carrying the US flag in the opening ceremonies.
The IOC can all go hang for all I care.
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Yeah. He claims he's totally open to "the science" if someone can come up with an unequivocal definition of "a woman."
Here you go:
The "feelz?" Not scientific. Not important.
What on earth am I missing?
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