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Originally Posted by Boomer
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 |
I don’t know any transgenders, I have no fight with their choices. I believe this situation will take more than attorneys and doctors.
I believe it will require women standing up as a whole and demanding that sports competition rights be restored to biological women. Much like women’s suffrage and the sixties, it won’t happen unless there is a united, vocal front.