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AP News - Olympic fans cheer on Imane Khelif during win after she faced days of online abuse (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics, repeatedly chanting “Imane! Imane!” before the athlete who has faced a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender broke out in sobs following her win.

A large contingent of Algerian supporters called her name and waved flags throughout the women’s 66-kilogram quarterfinal at North Paris Arena, and they unleashed some booes as her opponent was introduced in the jam-packed venue.

What a shameful episode this has been worldwide, watching so many celebrities open their pieholes and say the most horrible things. (Most notably, at least for me, was JK Rowling)

And yet, none of these unathletic, lazy, keyboard commandos would have the courage to talk trash to her face.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

JK was the least surprising for me. She has been a TERF for a long time, and has cozied up to fascists. She is the worst kind of human

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The irony of course being JK’s insistence that she’s just trying to “protect women” and yet she’s the one helping to instigate this abuse of a woman.

Funny to think that JK’s self-insert character in HP turned out to be Umbridge.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"But XY means man!"... unless it doesn't:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The wild thing is this is Genetics 101. There are entire sections of textbooks dedicated to how weird sex is. It usually covers birds and reptiles where ZW is female and ZZ is male. And mushrooms go crazy with many sexes and reproductive strategies that make one's head spin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I feel like a lot of the elementary curriculum should be updated to the current "101"s of each subject... and everyone should get a "refresher" course, maybe every 10 years, to learn the diff changes.

It would also help to stop treating kids like they're all stupid; stop teaching oversimplified versions of subjects, only to some years later go "Oh BTW, what we taught you before, that was BS, learn this one instead".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Yuuup. She is doing nothing but harming women and either can't or won't do any kind of introspection

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't understand people who have literally everything in life feeling some weird need to make up reasons to feel oppressed.

And yeah, when she decided to make friends with the fascists, I decided anything I ever buy again with her name attached to it will be bought second hand so she doesn't profit from it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Maybe there should only be one Olympic class. No male or female. No heavyweight or featherweight. No drug tests. Just the best of the best. Über Olympics!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe classes should be based on objective measurements like weight, height, number of limbs, and similar, not on subjective stuff like "doesn't look girly enough".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Lol short bald kings with glass!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I want a category where all contestants are required to compete in high heels.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You want the Enhanced Games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That would be pretty darn cool.