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Originally Posted by Aces4
With all do respect, this is exactly the problem. It appears to be dismissive and I emphasized in quotes your statement indicating that young women can wrestle with this urgent situation if they want and they will be sweet and kind while doing so.
ALL women should be standing up with these biological females to reverse this ridiculous decision that biological men can participate in women’s sports. This discussion isn’t about transgender acceptance, it’s about the shady overtaking of women’s athletics and rewards to which THEY are entitled. To me, the hairstyle remark at the end more or less stated this inequity isn’t all that important.
I don’t care who or how people mutilate their bodies, more power to them. But when a dismantling of a biological woman’s rights occurs, women ALL need to stand up and secure her rights.
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I was planning this morning to give up on this place. (I have thought that before.) But, now, I feel like I want to answer your post about my post.
I see now why my hair remark appeared to be flippant. But that was not directed at the women whose rights are under threat. I was “talking back” to one poster re. the the word ‘echoes’ — that’s because I keep trying to stand up to what I see as an echo chamber in so many threads. I tend to sometimes couch my backtalk in an attempt to lighten my touch — cheeky though I can be. (I almost took out the hair part. I wish I had.)
This is the second time in two days, I have tried to explain my wording — and more and more, I find myself wanting to take a more direct hit against the hateful posts I see. But, then, I think — why bother? Your post though is written with reason and in your own words, not some cut and paste or random linking. I respect that.
I was recently told that if I did not like the tone of TOTV I should leave — and that poster wished me a snide “good luck” with finding a forum that meets “my standards.” I resisted responding by saying, “So — are you saying I am out of your league?”
I know a transgender person and I wish I could ask them for their opinion on this matter of sports competition. But I do not know them well so I will not venture into such a discussion.
I will say though that if I or my daughter or granddaughter were competitive athletes, I could get into this fight. When I say it is a thread-the-needle issue, I hope what I mean is understood.
The name-calling and self-righteous judgment and pure hatred should never be a part of this fight. But that bandwagon is the easy — and tragically popular one — to jump on.
This fight is going to take finesse and attorneys and doctors who can advise and explain the glaring issue objectively — not subjectively.
Sometimes I wish I had gone to law school after I retired — instead of wasting so much time posting on TOTV.
By now, I could be “Pro Bono Boomer.”
Anyway, I can see your advocacy and I appreciate that. I apologize about my silly hair remark. I should have been more direct in the point I was trying to make.
Boomer