This is the segment where I scour my favourite forums around the internet
and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs
told in the words of my favourite human beings.
In this edition we have what may well just be the most idiotic piece of writing ever found. The stupidity on display here is just mindblowing, a symbol of everything wrong with the radical feminist approach. If you have even half a brain cell you'll likely end up with PTSD after reading what is the biggest collection of bollocks ever assembled in one article.
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http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/olympics-intersex-athletes/
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A hot topic at the Rio Olympics was the inclusion of Caster Semenya, who if you read 'The Guardian' has become some sort of 'Harambe type' figure in recent weeks, symbolising everything wrong with the Western establishment and the human race. Essentially the issue is that it's questionable whether this woman should be allowed to compete considering she has the physiology of a man, and as such gets an incredibly unfair advantage over her fellow competitors. I am personally of the opinion that Semenya should be allowed to race considering she's a clean athlete who has a legal and natural physiology, simply using her freakish body to outcompete her pissed off competitors. I have to say however that I also find myself agreeing with this US athlete who is frequently mentioned in this article, who quite reasonably pointed out that there is a limit where if a certain individual becomes dominant in an event thanks to genetic defects then there's a serious problem with the sporting integrity of the division. If Semenya is allowed to compete unregulated then we arrive at a stage where there doesn't need to be any gender separated sports in the Olympic games, and that's not fair on athletes that don't have abnormal bodies. This is just my personal viewpoint, and is mainly a sideshow for the main event, which is this fucking article itself. I'm sure you can tell already, but this is an article coming from the perspective that the outrage over Semenya's performances is unfounded, which is fine until you discover this intolerable ignorant attitude that this whole argument revolves around. It's instantly clear that objectivity and factual information are going to be hard to find here.
The article begins by essentially outlining just how far detached these writers are from reality. Instead of presenting a balanced argument the writers here decide to begin by lecturing their audience with these stupid exercises, that for some reason are an imperative action for all decent people. Apparently now we have to demonise those individuals who just want to watch the best that sport has to offer, becoming a society that ignores achievements and instead gets bogged down by all this politically correct bullshit. As an audience member you now have to not only become acquainted to new sports, but also familiarise yourself with gender and racial issues surrounding these sports. I'll admit that even to the most casual of viewers the concept of fairness in sports might crop up, but can you honestly say this approach is both realistic and beneficial? The average viewer doesn't even give a shit about the sports they're watching, so why the hell should they be forced to blindly believe this one sided horseshit you're spurting?
Sorry, did I read that opening line correctly? "There is no single biological sex marker found exclusively in male or female bodies." We'll just ignore the presence of chromosomes in the human body, that
not only act as a marker but determine your sex. I shouldn't even have to source this well known fact as it's common knowledge to anyone with even a basic understanding of biology. Even if you do ignore the universal cause of sexual dimorphism in humans then you still have the presence of genitals, which as I'm sure your eager to point out aren't always defining sexual characteristics, but individuals like Caster Semenya are the exception to the vastly overwhelming trend. That's how doctors identify the sex of a baby, and let's be honest they might fucking know something about sex differentiation with their medical degrees. You use the same fallacious argument to argue that chromosomes are an invalid form of sex determination as well. The operative word in AIS is 'symptom'. It's a symptom because it's a departure from normal human physiology, and one that only describes an exemption rather than a trend. When confronted with this logical conclusion you suddenly drop the scientific approach and finish with an irrelevant social point. Fertility rates having absolutely nothing to do with sex determination. The only fallacy here is your whole fucking argument.
The only thing worse than the actual science is the sources used. Your sole source of evidence is from 1934. Just to put that into perspective that study is now more outdated in the current scientific period than the work of Charles Darwin was when that 1934 paper was originally published. The basis behind that source is still correct, and now we realise that
men do have oestrogen, but
we also know the levels of oestrogen in men is a hell of a lot less that women, which is why men don't grow breasts and other physiological features associated with women. Even if what you're saying was true then how is this a gender issue related to Caster Semenya? Athletes are being excluded because of their chemical composition, not gender. In fact the ruling you're explicitly referring to takes gender completely out the picture, so please explain how the current system can possibly be biased for transgender athletes. In all honesty this is the most stupid paragraph ever written in human history. Sex organs are not just imperative for sexual reproduction, which is imperative to our survival as a species, but also a defining feature of sexual dimorphism. You can source isolated cases to try and disprove the tried and tested science of sex biology, but if we take what you're saying here to be true then humans wouldn't be on the planet, as sexual reproduction would be a nightmare with this conflated gene pool. Scientifically this is as inept as an argument is ever going to get, and a complete misrepresentation of a whole field. And this is just the basics of this fundamentally flawed argument.
Oh wow, we've really started abandoning the scientific approach now. How about leaving gender completely out of this argument considering that pseudoscientific bollocks like this have absolutely no place in the Olympic games? I get that gender has a different definition to biological sex in phony sciences, but guess what? The Olympics doesn't operate on feelings. The system you're proposing is similar to the Paralympic games where people with mental disabilities, such as identifying their genders as a frog or water, are put into the same class as they perform similarly in the majority of sports. Except you have no evidence to suggest that different genders perform to different athletic standards, so I'm still bemused as why these points about gender need to be made. The boundaries are quite clearly defined as male and female competition for reasons of exclusivity, and so I find your lax attitude towards a controversial athlete a significant threat on the apparent fairness of the games. The only solution you provide in this article is essentially to remove any restrictions based on gender in order to champion equality, which as athletes like Semenya proves would be the downfall of competitive female sports. The Olympics has a reputation to maintain of a fair playing field in any sport irrespective of the social context, which is why you see drug cheats not being able to compete. That reputation is made redundant when you have a genetic freak tearing the field away with mutations that make her behave like one of those drugged up athletes that aren't allowed to compete in the interests of fair competition. On the contrary Everyday Feminism can't even provide any reasoning as to why Caster Semenya and societal gender roles are even linked, and just randomly spurt any irrelevant social issue they can think of whether it's implicitly linked to Olympic competition or not. Let's be serious, what has male athletes regularly insulting female athletes got to do with this issue of hyperandrogenic athletes being able to compete? Absolutely nothing. How about preaching points in a condescending tone if it's actually relevant to the argument?
Remember morons of the internet, when making a point that's irrelevant and tenuous bullshit, make sure you shift the goalposts like Everyday Feminism is doing here on an astronomical scale. Honestly, this now accepted method of arguing serious issues won't repetitively undermine your whole argument at all. Take this random use of the race card for example. There's no actual evidence of racism being at play in this scenario, and the sources you use are your own fucking page, but of course the logic of Everyday Feminism is that when there's an inequality between two different races there has to be an inequity. Any inequality that follows their narrative means there has to be causative evidence of victimisation. And what a surprise, it's the evil white man that subjected Semenya to this ban. How could it not be? White people subjected minorities to slavery and global oppression for centuries so they have to be at fault for other unrelated incidents too. We'll suddenly ignore that scientific objectivity we were alluding to earlier, because blindly pointing a finger at a general source is how we should go about this isolated case study. When you look at this complex issue like Everyday Feminism does Imperialism just has to be the reason why the IAAF changed the rules regarding the levels of testosterone in women, and is also the reason behind the controversy surrounding Semenya. I suppose it was only a matter of time before the victim card was finally played, and what a beauty this use of the card is. Have you ever seen whinging quite like this before on an issue so totally unrelated to the actual point? They couldn't even find a source from their own website regarding this retarded slander. How fucking tragic.
'Faulty assumptions?' How fucking dare you have the audacity to criticise others for their 'faulty assumptions' when you make moronic articles riddled with the fucking things on a daily basis. There's even a faulty assumption in the very same sentence that you accuse others of using faulty assumptions. You claim that science is largely against the idea that testosterone has no effect on athletic performance, yet your source concludes no such thing. What the study did conclude was the following: "Interestingly, our data demonstrate that exercise-induced increases in
MPS are dissociated from post-exercise testosteronemia and that
stimulation of MPS occurs effectively with low systemic testosterone
concentrations in women." Not only does this conclusion not even make a comparison between testosterone levels in different sexes, but it doesn't even relate to general athletic performance, rather Myofibrial protein synthesis, which is just a single component of many. The actual science is very simple.
Testosterone builds up muscle mass, and muscle mass allows an increased athletic performance, which is critical in an 800m race. Not only is your use of scientific reasoning so poor here but the very person you're referring to in this argument is actually perfect evidence to show how much shit you're talking.
Caster Semenya's 800m times funnily enough share an alarming correlation with the IAAC's attitudes towards testosterone levels. I'm certainly not stating that testosterone levels were the sole cause of Semenya's increased performance, and a correlation is certainly not a causation, but it doesn't change the facts that testosterone is medically proven to aid athletic performance and give a significant and possibly unfair advantage to certain athletes. If this is a case of discrimination, then how is this a bad thing? This article later goes on to say that the solution to this apparent discrimination is to criticise invasive journalists and governing bodies that scrutinise the physiology of athletes, especially in the manner of women of colour. What a great idea that would be,
there would never be any serious repercussions of that attitude.
Quite simply the biggest and most blatant straw man argument I've ever seen in my life. What the fuck does any of this have to do with women's testosterone levels in sport? Again, this irrelevant point is weakly tied into the argument a bit later with the suggestion that tall people should be restricted from playing basketball. However basketball is a sport where height is not deemed to be an unfair advantage. That's one sport, and one sport that's very different from athletics. We could compare apples to oranges in a similar way by stating that boxing is another example of a sport that does deem excess weight an unfair advantage, just like the testosterone levels in long distance runners, and so therefore there is a justification for curbing variables in sport for an even playing field. If you do want to talk about a level playing field then how about actually addressing the issue on hand, and not surprisingly you once again fail to make a coherent argument and bring in more irrelevant social bollocks into the mix. You have no evidence to suggest these measures to restrict certain athletes are based on race or ethnicity, and you completely ignore the key issue that
testosterone suppression does create an even playing field for female athletes. But no, this scientifically proven mechanic cannot possibly be true because it's oppressive, and twisting the narrative to conform to your views are more important than any serious discussion. Everyday Feminism is a pile of shit that genuinely believes that testosterone limits are oppressive, yet apparently punishing athletes in richer countries literally for just training in richer countries isn't. Can't say I'm with you on that one. Neither am I with you on the actual point of this paragraph in relation to the overall argument, which has once again just vanished. Seriously, how fucking far do you want to take this argument away from anything actually relevant? How many fucking times do you want to shift the goalposts to suit your needs?
This last pointless paragraph epitomises this whole pile of manure that dares to identify as an article. How can some random points as moronic as this identify as a credible source on the internet. The authors of this horseshit should not only be ashamed of themselves but also be put into round the clock care. These people need help, not a website for them to showcase the extent of their idiocy. No wonder that Everyday Feminism is now seen as a satirical website by rational people when this is the extent of their serious arguments that contain absolutely zero facts, a complete disregard for scientific methods, no sophisticated reasoning, and an absence of rational and critical thought. It's less a formal argument, more a collection of incredibly loosely related words shoehorned into a complex issue that they clearly have no place in. Once again this website has complained about bias in society, whilst not only approaching the topic from the most blatantly biased and narrow minded method possible, but finding new ways to whinge about being the victim at every possible opportunity. I don't give a fuck about your feelings, so stop using them as a scapegoat. Even when a progressive action is taken in response to one of their pathetic criticisms they then find some other tenuous and moronic shit to whinge about, only so once again they can play the poor and helpless victims in issues they clearly have no comprehension on. What regressive assholes, and what a totally shit article.
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