Everything posted by DixonHur
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
I see you're conflating every single trans issue into sports. Good job. Nuanced, you are not.
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
No. I'm trying to bring some perspective. The level of victimhood and virtue signaling some people exhibit in the CR is mind bottling. I've offered up what I think is a viable solution to the issue... crickets. I make a freedom fries joke and all the sudden I'm Hitler. But let's follow your example. Say Congress bans trans women from participating in women's sports... not gonna happen, but let's pretend. What's the actual result? Honestly. Estimate the actual damage. Playing sports on a HS, collegiate, or professional team is not an unalienable right. Would it suck for some people? Absolutely, but is that the metric we want to apply to all situations? If anyone is disaffected than it cannot happen?
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
So, you're saying people should stop hating other people? I think you're on to something there. I'm surprised no one else has thought of that in the last 500,000 years. Does your hyperbole know no bounds? What rights and, whose lives does my suggestion trample?
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
So it's the same level of "national issue" as Freedom Fries? Got it.
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
I think calling it a "national issue" is a bit hyperbolic. As far as I can tell, it's had more legs here than anywhere else. But, to your questions: When did you start feeling strongly about women's sports? Why? I don't I feel strongly about women's sports, nor do I think you need to. To me, this isn't sports issue, per se, it's a boarder philosophical exercise. Did you think transgendered individuals didn't exist before? I had a trans professor at UT, so yes, I was aware of the existence of trans people. But are you suggesting that trans women were participating in HS and College athletics before say 10 years ago? How many people do you think this affects? Define "affects"? There are about 8.5 milllion HS and collegiate athletes in the US. So, if roughly 3% of the population identifies as either trans or intersex, that's about 255k. But there seems to be less of an issue with female to male trans, so cut that in half and call it 125k. If you're talking about the "potential" of the US (not even gonna contemplate the world)... there are about 33 million biological males between the ages of 10 and 24, so that's just under a 1 million. Do you think that sports bodies are incapable of developing rules to cover these very niche situations? No. Lance Armstrong out front shoulda told you Do you really think this is important enough that state and national legislation needs to be involved? No, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed or discussed in public. My solution is quite simple and certainly not new. Plato designed an entire republic on a similar concept. Eliminate gender segregation in sport. Qualifications would be based on something akin to a SPARQ score.
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
If you believe this you may be as, if not more, narrow minded than those you are attempting the castigate. You're basically telling people that they either think like you or they are bigoted. How is that constructive to the debate? More to the point, how does that leave any room for debate? Believe it or not, two things can be true. Some, maybe much, of the push back against trans women competing against cis women might be a result of bigoted thinking. That doesn't mean all of it is. Nor does it mean it shouldn't be discussed.
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Who decided that a TD should be called a "Tuddy"?
Not to mention bring home the hardware with the Davey O and H-Tro's La Jolla yeets the rock
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Joker: Folie a Deux
So, you're saying it will win the Oscar for Best Picture?
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Who decided that a TD should be called a "Tuddy"?
He's a symptom, not the problem. This has been going on since the explosion of TV coverage. All these broadcasters need a catchphrase, so they just throw out random shit like tuddy and dinger. The genesis for me was Chris Berman's pathological need to make up nicknames for players.
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
Your post, and that of many I've read on this thread, seem to be conflating results with process.
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Wyoming forfeits Volleyball matchup with San Jose State
I've been deathly ill all week so I'm just catching up on all things Surly, and whoo boy is this thread a doozy. Just finished the thread and here's my hot take... Y'all can bash @52-80, but from my unbiased perspective he's been one of the more reasonable posters in this thread... along with @troph. Although, I think her proximity to the issue clouds her at times. I think we can all agree that nobody gives a shit about rec sports, so let's put a pin in that one. That leaves competitive level sports. So, the question is, when does rec sports become competitive? IE what it the definition of competitive level sports? Is it simply based on average talent level? Age? Or does sponsorship money, or the potential for sponsorship money (NIL, pro sports, etc.) need to be present?
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Wait, you've got indoor plumbing? Lucky bastard!
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Bobo is a shit OC. That was a terrible play call after you've watched Beck trying to throw to that side all night.
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
This game deserves OT
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
We're set at WR. Spend that $5mil elsewhere
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but this Williams kid might be pretty good
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Talk about a tale of two halves
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Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Their DBs have been committing holds and PI all game, but the refs have only called about 10% of them- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Why didn't Beck throw that? The RB was wide open when he released- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
It's either Georgia or the THC... too close to call- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
Georgia is playing the role of the Washinton Generals pretty well- Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
They actually tried to go for 2 after their first TD, but there was a penalty - Georgia at Alabama - 6:30 on ABC
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