I don’t agree with a lot of what Forky puts out but I do have an issue with transwomen in women’s sports competitions. I don’t need an invitation to step back thanks all the same. My motivation is seeking fairness & an open conversation about balancing the rights and needs of different individuals. Lia Thomas was apparently a pretty unremarkable swimmer in male competitions but is now winning female competitions. Further a team member has come out & expressed that they are uncomfortable in the changing rooms.
Women have been so badly treated for such a long time when a woman says she is uncomfortable I she is entitled to be heard properly, not shouted down.
From Lia Thomas wiki page
"Thomas began swimming on the men's team at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and during her freshman year, recorded a time of 8 minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle that ranked as the sixth-fastest national men's time, as well as 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle times ranked within the national top 100.
[4] On the men's swim team in 2018–2019, Thomas finished second in the men’s 500, 1,000, and 1,650-yard freestyle at the
Ivy League championships as a
sophomore in 2019.
[4][3][7] During the 2018–2019 season, Thomas recorded the top university men's team times in the 500 free, 1000 free, and 1650 free.
[8]" How can you say she was not remarkable in male sports? You can be uncomfortable but there are people also being uncomfortable around homesexual people, I don't know why you would call that homophobic and not what you are saying transphobic
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I am so annoyed at Niomi. Her whole facade of it being "helping Ukraine" lasted a week if that. The war is far from over, where is all her concern gone? I am so annoyed at people, I have clients from Ukraine/Russia and other neighbouring countries affected by the war and I told a manager that I did not feel comfortable sending plenty of emails chasing them for an answer on whether or not they will be placing orders for their drugs and I was told "what makes you say that?". I literally wanted to shout "Look at the news". Talking about it, did anyone hear from Julie?
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Her dragging the dog around London is so weird. It’s a reach but it kind of reminds me when she did the “I’m not an influencer” video, clearly spurred on by insecurities in her relationship. Now I feel like the other head is cooling things off and her very shallow response is “look! You love dogs and I love dogs! I’ve got a dog with me everywhere because I’m such a dog person now…like you”. Or, and more likely, she’s just incredibly lonely and Noodle is the only one willing to tolerate her.
i read somewhere that some people with AN will have a dog so that they have an excuse to go on super long walk or go for walks multiple times as they need to take the dog out (i am not in any way shape or form saying that everyone has a dog as an excuse to over exercise, just to be clear). I am not even saying that's the case but I honestly can see a pattern here, with her nor being able to go on a plane without having gone on a run first etc etc
PS - sorry all, I had to edit to add breaks as they were 3 different comments but they all were grouped together and was messing with my OCD
most people have an all day meeting called work! Or kids!
