[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by KYtoTV2021

Your money is "support". If you give money to support Adidas, you support transgender competition. I really iS that simple. A free county? Of course. But do you really want men competing as women?

Hmm, there is a grammatical error but I'm not sure we would agree on the word that needs to be changed to make the statement correct.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I mean, if I'm going to pick a sports company as my hill to die on, I would just - stop buying from that company. Maybe use a magic marker to blacken the swoosh on my sneakers or whatever.

But throwing away perfectly good clothing/gear is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. You already paid for it. You can't undo that.

I don't wear Nike or Adidas stuff because I'm not into sports-branded clothing. But I really don't give a flying furt if their advertisements have men, women, transgender, black, white, disabled, poor, wealthy, Muslim, Baptist, or whatever else. They want everyone to buy their stuff. And so, they're marketing to everyone.

Unless you feel that transgender people shouldn't be allowed to buy Nike and Adidas clothing? Because if that's the case, it sounds more like a "you" problem.

The fact that you think they are marketing to "everyone" is adorable...

And your last paragraph is a nice "red herring"...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I don't think men playing mens' sports should be allowed to earn more than women in womens' sports. I don't think a man OR a woman should earn more in a professional sport than a teacher, or a nurse, or a truck driver. It won't stop me from buying whatever the heck I want to buy.

Well, since most sports get their revenue from ticket sales and TV revenue, when women's sports garner the same income generation, they will deserve the same pay...

Although I do agree that the salaries of pro-athletes has gotten ridiculous...

[aallbrand]

Most reading this forum will be dead sooner than latter. We moved to the T.V. for the active life style and positive thinking. Thousands of clubs and the best we can do is complain about a commercial from a tennis shoe company because they support Transgender woman . How pathetic , embarrassing and sad and by the way unless you are Transgender or really know some one who is I thinks its wise to keep hurtful comments to your self.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Dam, I hope Crocs doesn’t do something to cause me to have to boycott them. If that happened, all I’d have left to wear would be my sketchers golf shoes : (

I'm surprised these haven't caused a boycott of the company...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Whatever happened to U. S. KEDS?

They never kept up with the technological improvements in athletic shoes...

[BlackhawksFan]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

WOW! Nice illogical jump you made there...


P.S. Where's your profile pic?

I'm not a bigot so I'll remain anonymous like your dog

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Have you tried that yourself? It's easy to be condescending, it's harder to be exact.

Here is an article from USA Today and another from WaPo on the subject.

Two Opinion pieces...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by MartinSE

Thank you for your post, I am biting my tongue here. It is not condescending, it is hate.

BS...

[The Chipster]

So you move down to The Villages, a haven of fun, friendship, peace, and goodwill. And then you get worked up into a froth over an issue that does not affect you or the vast majority of Americans in the least. Why don't you spend a large amount of your time volunteering to help the poor who live all around your area, instead of sitting around getting ****ed off at everything?

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

. Regrettably (though not unexpectedly) some of the discussion is most definitely intolerant and hateful.

Just like the real world.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by blueash

All you experts in a man is a man and a woman is a woman... What is a person with XXY chromosomes? What is a person with XO? What is a person with XYY? What is a person with ovotestes? What is a person who has cliteromegaly that mimics in all respects a small phallus? What is a person whose brain tells them beyond any shadow of a doubt they are a woman? You experts are so certain in your ignorance and intolerance. The genders are not as simple as you wish or your church may have taught you. It is very complex and the exceptions to your wrongheaded wisdom prove the fallacy of your beliefs.

Of course you would support forcing teachers not to teach the truth about gender identity because telling children the truth would threaten your so tightly held beliefs. There is every color of the rainbow in human expression and experience of sexuality and gender.

And any corporation that understands how the emerging picture of the complexity of gender must be boycotted. Cancel culture I believe is the term the thought police use on TV

More red herrings...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by villageuser

Targeting the companies that sell the items is not the solution. Targeting the organizations allow /transgender individuals to compete against non-transgender athletes would be more effective. As a woman, I personally think there should be its own transgender category.

Agreed...

[airstreamingypsy]

I'm a woman, I don't believe that trans men should be allowed to compete against women, I also don't care what kind of shoes the OP buys and I don't believe this topic belongs here.... it's just another whiny troll topic.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by MidWestIA

They want to let trans guys compete with girls ok let girls use steroids - it's the same thing

Nothing close to the same thing... Bone structure, lung capacity, etc, etc, etc, will still be different...