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Surprise: "Women's" Weightlifting Competition Won By... Man

Well, a man who has "transitioned," he says, to being a woman.

A transgender weightlifter who transitioned from male to female caused outrage after he won a female competition Sunday.

Laurel Hubbard, born a male, outperformed his female competitors in the Australian International competition, reports AU.News.

Hubbard lifted about 591 pounds, compared to runner-up Iuniarra Sipaia, who lifted approximately 572 pounds.

One weightlifter pointed out that Hubbard competing in the women's division could be unfair.

"We all deserve to be on an even playing field," Deborah Acason, from the Australian Weightlifting Federation, told 1News Now. "It's difficult when you believe that you’re not. If it's not even, why are we doing the sport?"

This is going to become more and more common, and the fractures between the feminist and transgender pressure groups are going to get too wide to paper over.

More very weird news from the Transgender Wars at the Federalist, with a strong nut pull from Stephen Green.

This quote's good too:

I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired. A speaker (pronouns xe, xyr, xemself) passionately told us of a time when xe had an older coworker who referred to xem as "ma'am." When xe repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem, he responded that he couldn't, because he had been brought up to be polite and use sir and ma'am.

A quick visit to the supervisor resulted in the coworker being fired. There was standing ovation in the conference hall, with one member of the audience saying how "brave" xe was to enact change. Xe publicly responded that xe "needed to go above his head to get what I needed."

Oh, it's I now, huh? Not xI or xme?

Update: CBD was going to post on this.

He made a point in email. This transgender was allowed to compete per a rule that says transgenders can compete, so long as their blood testosterone level is under a specified level in the twelve months before the competition.

CBD writes:

The illogic of this boggles the mind. If gender is a social construct, how can there be a test for it? And if the test is testosterone level, how does he explain women who have no desire to be men who happen to have conditions that raise their testosterone levels to levels approaching men's?

Posted by: Ace at 05:24 PM




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1 It is a Social Construct, yet they were Born That Way.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 20, 2017 05:26 PM (ujg0T)

2 Hmm,this Deborah Acason needs to be reeducated.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2017 05:26 PM (r/0kC)

3
Alternate headline:

GAINZZZZ!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2017 05:26 PM (mbhDw)

4
Corgis have been summoned . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2017 05:28 PM (mbhDw)

5 But the sexes are no different

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:28 PM (GPaiX)

6 He/She cleaned up in the "clean and jerk"

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (FZYNt)

7 A real woman lifted 572 lbs? Fuuuuuuuck me.

Posted by: HAWAII JUDGE at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (tT1++)

8 Points. Laughs.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (Uohrc)

9 If this puts an end to women's sports, and causes high schools and universities to just field one team, open to everyone, it will be exactly what these groups deserve.

Posted by: Ted K. at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (7RqXg)

10 Ha ha! Choke on your new gender-fluid reality, feminists!

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (DQ4Fv)

11
I love it.

The clash between the Left's stupid Sub-Groups is fun to watch.

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (1K6n1)

12
Good for him.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (ZFUt7)

13 More women of Wal-Mart!

Posted by: Killerdog at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (7q/fS)

14 The receding hairline is a nice tough

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (NOIQH)

15 Rachael Maddow hardest hit

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (FZYNt)

16 I think the women super heavy lifters lift more,proportionately,than men.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (r/0kC)

17 Intersectionality, how does it work?

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (nNdYv)

18 One weightlifter pointed out that Hubbard competing in the women's division could be unfair.

"We all deserve to be on an even playing field," Deborah Acason, from the Australian Weightlifting Federation, told 1News Now.



Field is even.
Do or do not.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (Uohrc)

19 He did OK in the deadlift and squat, but didn't compare as well in the snatch.

Posted by: Ted K. at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (7RqXg)

20
So who is higher on the SJW victim in need of special treatment trannies or wymyn? I'm really hoping the left's lunacy gets so bad they start attacking each other

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (493sH)

21 But is it a fight to seperate sports in the sexes or fight to make them the same or just the opportunist jumping the sexes to one up when ghey have no chance against the sex they are?

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (GPaiX)

22 Ah fuck her...well not with my penis of course

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (KlI/a)

23
Dave Prowse says, "Svim vare!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (mbhDw)

24 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (GwIKd)

25 Oh,the Yellow Power Ranger will be a lesbian in the new movie apparently.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (r/0kC)

26 I'd love to believe that these snapshots of STOOPID would wake up the idiots, but I'll likely de disappointed, again and again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon of the Clan Deplorable at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (RwwCT)

27 NUTz!

Posted by: Holmes at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (fi5nC)

28
9 If this puts an end to women's sports, and causes high schools and universities to just field one team, open to everyone, it will be exactly what these groups deserve.
Posted by: Ted K. at March 20, 2017 05:29 PM (7RqXg)


It's only a matter of time. The Title 9 lawsuits will be better than anything currently on TV.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (tT1++)

29 So the faggots who couldn't cut it on the men's teams can just hop on over to women's teams to get their trophies and glory. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: kathysayso at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (43OZ6)

30 Guess that was the only way this pussy could win anything.

Posted by: Deplorable Bonnie Blue at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (ZXK8H)

31
East German "Women's" Teams: Oh so now it's okay...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (493sH)

32 Bring this on!
Nothing is going to get them to admit this is all rubbish faster than women losing out on benefits/separation that enables them to excel.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (NOIQH)

33 I've always been attracted to women who can beat the ever loving shit out of me?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (KlI/a)

34 My head hurts from reading the "nut pull" by Stephen Green.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (PY9jH)

35 Celebrate mental illness!!!!11!!!

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (FqgrG)

36 Liberalism, it all it's many forms, is a brain disorder.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

37 That 'G ' keeps getting in the way of the 'T'

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (GPaiX)

38 Congratulations Feminists!

Welcome to second class athletics.

Posted by: rd at March 20, 2017 05:32 PM (iT57s)

39 So the faggots who couldn't cut it on the men's teams can just hop on over to women's teams to get their trophies and glory. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: kathysayso at March 20, 2017 05:31 PM (43OZ6)



Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That would be a hoot

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:33 PM (493sH)

40 transgender athletes, I wonder how many only transitioned because "sheesh I could be world class in the women's division." If it ends up tearing down the stupid title IX crap in the U.S. before the various governing committees figure out they need to write rules that only people with 2 X genes can compete in the women's divisions that would be nice.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 20, 2017 05:34 PM (eASYU)

41 If you are not a black, transgender, lesbian, Muslim refugee, you are an oppressor, pig, and you deserve to die! And Schmucky Tumor is trying to make that happen!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 20, 2017 05:34 PM (Nwg0u)

42 Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That would be a hoot
Posted by: TheQuietMan

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that what the WNBA is?

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2017 05:34 PM (FZYNt)

43 If xey think xey can make me use the proper pronoun, xey should talk to my German teacher from high school. Learn xem but good.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (VdICR)

44 39 Predicted by the film classic "Juwanna Man".

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (r/0kC)

45 Reminds me of that pill that Tucker Carlson had on a few weeks back, trying to convince us that these sex "transitions" are normal and natural. To paraphrase, "Just shut your eyes tightly and if you wish hard enough, your dreams will come true!" Or something like that...

Posted by: washrivergal at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (Ivjge)

46
Hopefully all the women were richly rewarded with participation trophies before being sent scurrying home.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (ZFUt7)

47 Look, I've never understood something - transgender people can claim and act however they want, but when it comes to sports, why do we allow them to compete? There is no "right" to be let into a competition. Simply say "this competition is only for people with 2 X chromosomes" and be done with it.

I mean we have incredibly detailed rules on equipment, drugs, and what not. Why not this too?

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (UgF8H)

48 Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That would be a hoot
Posted by: TheQuietMan

I saw that movie

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:35 PM (KlI/a)

49 If I lost my arm, and replaced with with say, a super biomechanical arm, and wanted to pitch in the MLB with 150 mile an hour fastballs, the other teams might call foul. It wouldn't be because of hatred toward the disabled.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:36 PM (UgF8H)

50 Weak dude if he only won by about 20 pounds over the girl.

Posted by: Yo! at March 20, 2017 05:36 PM (GwIKd)

51 >>Look, I've never understood something - transgender people can claim and act however they want, but when it comes to sports, why do we allow them to compete?

Who is we? I'm not making the rules, the left is.

As Alinsky always told us, make them live by their own rules.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2017 05:37 PM (/tuJf)

52 Don't they already have words for this like "you", "me", "it" "shim" "shmale" etc?

Posted by: swchach at March 20, 2017 05:37 PM (kYrot)

53 Bring this on!
Nothing is going to get them to admit this is all rubbish faster than women losing out on benefits/separation that enables them to excel.

-
It's perfect. Not only does it prove the girl power is equal power meme is bullshit, it also punishes them for failing to recognize the truth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 20, 2017 05:38 PM (Nwg0u)

54 How brave it is to be a fascist asshole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 05:38 PM (IqV8l)

55 A transgender weightlifter who transitioned from male to female

He transitioned from loser in big pond to champion in little pond.

Some people will do anything to be any sort of "champion".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:38 PM (zc3Db)

56 Or if I managed to replace both arms with gorilla arms, and entered an arm wrestling competition. If I was banned, does that mean they hate gorillas? Gorilla phobia? No, it simply means unfair.

Genetics confers advantages and disadvantages. One of the greatest separators is male/female.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (UgF8H)

57 I just got into a uuuuuge argument with my husband over accommodating this bullshit. I maintain that indulging these lunatics only furthers the crazy.

Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (mmKPT)

58 I usually cancel everything and rush home to watch women weigh lifting. What a turn on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (KlI/a)

59 Huh, I thought it was going to be Matt Kroc when I saw the headline. That's going to be freaky.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (Cg0GI)

60 There is an update

Posted by: Yo! at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (GwIKd)

61 Surprise! She said as her wiener popped out on a dead lift.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (OFxPz)

62 Women complain that their sports do not get enough publicity, coverage and celebration.

Just wait until the teams are half trans competitors!

Posted by: rd at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (iT57s)

63 ace that anecdote you cite is infuriating and sickening. We're talking Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge outrageous and un-American. People can be *fired* for not using made-up pronouns that don't exist in English?


Jeebus.


Meanwhile, non-apologies to all those focused on the "unfairness" of "punishing" female athletes with this transgender idiocy, but everybody has to get their oar in the water to push back against the cretinization of culture. Without more victims, there won't be enough push-back.


Many, many other categories of citizen have been enduring much worse abuse as the country has declined. As the constitutional republic only continues to exist here and there, and the political class is a near-impregnable fortress of status quo self-dealing and irresponsibility, there is not much response or representation left in representative govt.


Gonna take enough outrages to generate enough heat to restore some sanity. Might be there will never be enough. If so, ignore my strategic analysis, and welcome to the club.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (QDnY+)

64 Dear Xir,

Go fuck xourselves.

--Sanity

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (9krrF)

65 Pronouns are for fags. From now on everybody shall be referred to as fuckface.

Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (ATR4h)

66 Rad-Fems call male to "female" transgenders "male to trans" or MTT.

I suggest we do so as well. They ain't women.

Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (mmKPT)

67 Did I hear correctly that they are going to have fire farting for distance at the next Olympics?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (KlI/a)

68 Or we just get REALLY fair and let everyone compete in the same leagues together, and thus end woman's sports altogether. I would be fine with that decision. It is the obvious conclusion - either you segregate on the basis of male/ female, or you do not.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:41 PM (UgF8H)

69 for all of this "xe" and whatever bullshit - I'm just going back to "fuck you, faggot" if I'm ever forced to address any of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 20, 2017 05:41 PM (KeRkT)

70 I usually cancel everything and rush home to watch women weigh lifting. What a turn on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 05:39 PM (KlI/a)


LOL.

And on weekends you probably binge on women's soccer and women's basketball. Who can stop themselves from watching such riveting sports?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:41 PM (zc3Db)

71
Just wait until the first transgendered Greco Roman wrestler comes along wantd to compete in the womans division

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (lKyWE)

72 Well, there's one clean snatch I don't want to see.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (Nwg0u)

73 If the Olympics start this shit, and they are as Leftist as any other organization, it will be the end of womens events. And wouldn't that be ironic.

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (GPaiX)

74 I hope this does keep happening, the Left won't cry uncle until they feel some pain.

Just make it so actual women win zero sporting events and then you'll see some common sense on this debate begin to emerge.

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (9cYRJ)

75 A quick visit to the supervisor resulted in the coworker being fired...Xe publicly responded that xe "needed to go above his head to get what I needed."




That's why you got Trump, dude.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (dargh)

76 I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.




Oh good a cultural revolution where the unbelievers will be out of work for being normal. This shit needs to be sued

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:42 PM (493sH)

77 "Don't call me ma'am!"

"Okay, how about cunt?"

I mean, if you're going to get fired.......

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 20, 2017 05:43 PM (FqgrG)

78 I don't like these mental defectives trying to press me into servicing their problems. I had a bad enough time in English before this ...

Posted by: X at March 20, 2017 05:43 PM (zc3Db)

79 Truth is - what is scary about progressives is how obviously the various parts of the progressive coalition will tears the country to bits once they have power. Construction unions don't belong in the same group as environmentalists. Feminists don't belong in the same group as Muslims or transsexuals.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:43 PM (UgF8H)

80 I once lifted 600 lbs. @ 12 oz. a time. Now, I'm a re-covering weight lifter.

Posted by: Strobe at March 20, 2017 05:43 PM (gbWkA)

81 Marathoners run the same course regardless of gender, so why separate awrards for men and women? Make women's tennis player play five sets and compete against men. And so on.

If gender is just a social construct, then why are we perpetuating this via sex-segregated sports? Time to live by your rules, Lefties!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:43 PM (NOIQH)

82 ESPN was wetting themselves the other day over a pro team possibly hiring a female coach in the near future.There already some coaches in the NFL,believe it or not,a female linebackers coach.What she could possibly teach them,I have no idea.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (r/0kC)

83 As Alinsky always told us, make them live by their own rules.

This x 1,000,000,000

Posted by: Fox at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (DVC2D)

84 Like the chicks said in the commercials this weekend during the tournament, "Genders don't play sports. Athletes do."
So how's that working out for you?

Posted by: tu3031 at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (qJhUV)

85 What a stupid time to be alive

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (guIHw)

86 FUCKxe THEMz

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (br2jI)

87 Rad-Fems call male to "female" transgenders "male to trans" or MTT.
Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2017 05:40 PM (mmKPT)


"Rad-Fems" kind of sounds like a clan of irradiated mutant feminists in some post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (8nWyX)

88 "A speaker (pronouns xe, xyr, xemself) passionately told us of a time
when xe had an older coworker who referred to xem as "ma'am." When xe
repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem, he responded
that he couldn't, because he had been brought up to be polite and use
sir and ma'am."



How 'bout fuck YOU? Does that work?


Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2017 05:45 PM (Enq6K)

89
Marathoners run the same course regardless of gender, so why separate awrards for men and women?


I believe the women get a head start

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2017 05:45 PM (lKyWE)

90 Correct me if I'm wrong but transitioning requires all kinds of steroids.
I always thought steroid use was prohibited, ergo, blood test.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 20, 2017 05:45 PM (BH0Jo)

91 The receding hairline is a nice touch


Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:30 PM (NOIQH)


....and the steroid gut.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (FTXAT)

92 Good! Women are more likely to support all this tranny bullshit so it's fitting that they receive more of that sweet self-sacrificial attitude and give the tranny a win every time the tranny shows up. Hope you gals didn't train much and waste a lot of time.

Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (8b+oT)

93 He,She,He,She, Him,Her,Him,Her,...... so sue Me...

Posted by: It's Me donna at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (O2RFr)

94 I have not 1 problem if a NFL team wanted to hire any female from trainer to head coach.

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (GPaiX)

95 As Alinsky always told us, make them live by their own rules.

This x 1,000,000,000

Posted by: Fox at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (DVC2D)


I prefer the "Fuck them!" attitude. I don't want anything to do with them or their so-called rules. The only sensible thing to do is to fight against every idiotic, disturbed notion they come up with and to call them the self-hating, insane ghouls that they are.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (zc3Db)

96 In what state is it illegal to refuse to address someone by their made-up pronouns?

Posted by: Crimso at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (yrlzg)

97 Nibiru save us, your our only hope.

Posted by: Paladin at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (QGbEp)

98 earned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.
============

That's a good way to get your ass kicked in the parking lot

Posted by: Yo! at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (GwIKd)

99 Oh good a cultural revolution where the unbelievers will be out of work for being normal. This shit needs to be sued
Posted by: TheQuietMan


Silly cis-gender, only the Left can sue the government successfully.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (4YGWz)

100 Unfortunately I don't think this kind of idiocy will ever "take off" to a level that forces any real reaction. The "transgender" nonsense is an invisibly tiny % of the population. There just isn't enough supply of legitimately mentally ill or poseur "trans" people to staff this particular assault on common sense.


Unfortunately.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (QDnY+)

101 ESPN was wetting themselves the other day over a pro team possibly hiring a female coach in the near future.

-
This is what sports is about! That faster, higher, longer, stronger bullshit is so old-fashioned!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (Nwg0u)

102 I believe the women get a head start
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

they have to give head first?

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (FZYNt)

103 We see once again the triumph and tyranny of the weak. In a healthy society, we can treat our physically and mentally disabled folks very well, however, it all breaks down when the mentally ill get to decide how sane people must behave. I feel genuine pity for the mentally ill, but, that does not mean I want to celebrate their delusions in order to keep my life on an even keel.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (kXoT0)

104 A quick visit to the supervisor resulted in the coworker being fired.




Companies that give into this crap need to get the shit sued out of them by someone who gets fired over not using a made up pronoun

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (493sH)

105 They just said on The Five that one quarter of Kentucky's population is on Medicaid. What?

Don't remember this factual tidbit being reported anytime in the past 8 years.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (48QDY)

106 >> xe had an older coworker who referred to xem as "ma'am." When xe repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem, he responded that he couldn't, because he had been brought up to be polite and use sir and ma'am.

Note that this doesn't actually make sense. He and him don't replace sir.

They don't give a replacement for sir and ma'am. So the dude was trying to be polite and say yes ma'am no ma'am and got fired for it.

Yes xer and no xer? Mmm no, that doesn't actually make sense. She probably just said stop saying ma'am.


Lovely.

Posted by: Mama AJ, nice person, not a witch at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (gTQoY)

107 >>I believe the women get a head start


Oh. Well, that is insulting! Same goes with women's tees. That assumes there's a difference between men and women, which is bigoted in the extreme!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (NOIQH)

108 I thought in Marathons its not a head start for women just in timing they are different so its just a start time difference, I could be totally wrong

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:49 PM (GPaiX)

109
HR Departments now run the companies instead of the other way around.

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 20, 2017 05:49 PM (1K6n1)

110 The fracture between sane people and insane people continues to grow too wide to paper over.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (5VlCp)

111 I have not 1 problem if a NFL team wanted to hire any female from trainer to head coach.

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (GPaiX)


Yep. Can't say that I care.

Andy Murray got a female coach. They made a big deal about it. I didn't care. It wasn't as if she shouldn't have been able to be a good tennis coach. He did okay under her but let her go after not too long and went back to Lendl, who took him back to the top.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (zc3Db)

112 God has got one heck of a sense of humor.

Posted by: Strobe at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (gbWkA)

113 they have to give head first?
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2017 05:47 PM (FZYNt)

Only at the first header breakfast, the early bird gets the worm.

Posted by: Killerdog at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (7q/fS)

114 A marathon is a distance, but while not a golfer I am sure women get a shorter tee distance.

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (GPaiX)

115 Re 25% MEDICAID

This is why ocare will never go away. Too many people on the medical dole. Including millions and millions in red states.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (tT1++)

116 ou say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about he-for-she
ESPN won't see me
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 20, 2017 05:50 PM (Nwg0u)

117
Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That would be a hoot
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Yep. Let them eat their own and explain why this is a good thing.

Conversely, how long before a womyn "transitioning" to man decides that she wants to be on a men's team, is refused, and sues?

Seems like there could be a lot of money had that way as well.

Posted by: shibumi at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (FkAXz)

118 >>
I usually cancel everything and rush home to watch women weigh lifting. What a turn on

Posted by: Nevergiveup

I can pop your head like a zit with my thighs.

Posted by: Russian Female Weightlifter at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (/Nite)

119 Maine is pretty bad too. 22% of the entire state budget is Medicaid spending.

Posted by: Timon at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (27k1O)

120 "I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun."

This seems far-fetched. And the author's name is "anonymous," so I am a bit suspicious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (rF0hx)

121 HR Departments

Fucking idiots. They get a masters so they can tell you your insurance benefits and how many vacation days you have left. Then they start making up shit to justify their paycheck which just happens to be shit that makes everyone in the company less productive. Fucking leaches.

Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (8b+oT)

122 Andy Murray got a female coach. They made a big deal about it. I didn't care. It wasn't as if she shouldn't have been able to be a good tennis coach. He did okay under her but let her go after not too long and went back to Lendl, who took him back to the top.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Every damn time I walk through that door, it's the same damn thing
That bitch bends over, and I forget my name - ow!

Posted by: Gene Simmons at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (FZYNt)

123 In what state is it illegal to refuse to address someone by their made-up pronouns?
Posted by: Crimso at March 20, 2017 05:46 PM (yrlzg)

New York City for one under the NYCHRL [New York City Human Rights Law]. I know it's not a state, but, this law cover 8 to 10 million people if you count those who commute into the city to work.

http://tinyurl.com/kfek7ap

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (kXoT0)

124 117
Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That would be a hoot

Wouldn't work... Have You seen some of those WNBA players?
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Posted by: It's Me donna at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (O2RFr)

125 A quick visit to the supervisor resulted in the coworker being fired.

Sadly, this kind of shit always escalates until some complainant gets beaten into a wheelchair for the rest of their lives, and claim further victimhood.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (QQ+il)

126 This is going to end in violence.

"Rad-Fems" kind of sounds like a clan of irradiated mutant feminists in some post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:44 PM (8nWyX)


I think "Citadel of the Rad-Fems" was a DLC pack for Fallout 4.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (Tnhbr)

127 Oh. Well, that is insulting! Same goes with women's tees. That assumes there's a difference between men and women, which is bigoted in the extreme!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (NOIQH)


The part that always confused me is that the ladies' tees are like ten feet closer. What possible difference does that make on a 300 yard hole?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (8nWyX)

128 Suprise: "Women's" Weightlifting Competition Won By... Man

And y'all wonder why I prefer to not even leave the house anymore -
I swear, I'll never venture farther than my back yard when I can find a service to deliver me bourbon, dogfood and weed.

I want off this planet.
At least until this shitstorm of a country gets back on track.

Posted by: Leonard Smalls at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (Q3ES6)

129
She probably just said stop saying ma'am.


Like Babs Boxer

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (IqV8l)

130 So these psychopaths are admitting to targeting specific people to destroy their lives by getting them fired. They should be put in jail or a mental institution for a year and charged with stalking/harassment.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (2qHjF)

131 Golfman, accurate or not, the Medicaid numbers are all part of the current campaign to conflate Medicaid expansion (something that's been going on since Nixon was president) with the completely unrelated destruction of the individual insurance market and assault on the rest of market since 2014 (O-care).


In a country dumbed-down enough to elect Obama, this breath-taking idiocy might "work". That is, provide absurd "talking points" to enough Supreme Soviet deputies (GOP congresscritters) to help them try to confuse their constituents while explaining why their 7-yr old demand for repeal is being ignored.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (QDnY+)

132 One of the most shameful moments of my life happened when I was 9 years old and the local community center swimming pool held a swimming competition for the kids, divided into age groups.

My mother, being evil, thought that I would lose horribly in the 9-year-old division, but would stand a chance of winning in the 7-year-old division. Since I was pretty small for a 9-year-old, she thought I could pass as being 7 years old, so she signed me up for the 7-year-old race, over my own protestations. Damn, she wanted that trophy, I guess.

The worst part? The 7-year-olds kicked my ass. I flailed around and came in near the back of the pack.

I will never live down that double-whammy of shame.

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (DQ4Fv)

133 "I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun."

This seems far-fetched. And the author's name is "anonymous," so I am a bit suspicious.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Yeah, sounds fake as shit to me. How is a person supposed to remember all that pronoun bullshittery? Mind reading?

Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (8b+oT)

134 The story about the nurse capitulating to calling the pregnant woman claiming to be a man "he" is bullshit. The pap smear & ultrasound is out of sequence in the story

They just make up shit so people feel like "well if other people are doing it...

Posted by: Batterup at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (mtGE/)

135 Good! Women are more likely to support all this tranny bullshit so it's fitting that they receive more of that sweet self-sacrificial attitude and give the tranny a win every time the tranny shows up. Hope you gals didn't train much and waste a lot of time.
Posted by: Dang


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I agree that women are 1,000 times more likely to go along with this bullshit, so watching them pay the price is delicious irony.

Most feminist bullshit is just about wanting their cake and eating it too.

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (9cYRJ)

136 I'm formally inviting the cat into the bed...bastard sleeps there half the time anyway. I intend on filing my taxes jointly with him. I am embracing the diversity!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (TnUKj)

137 20, 2017 05:51 PM (/Nite)

119 Maine is pretty bad too. 22% of the entire state budget is Medicaid spending.
Posted by: Timon at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (27k1O)


But that's not the same as saying goes 22% of the population is on Medicaid

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (tT1++)

138
Conversely, how long before a womyn "transitioning" to man decides that she wants to be on a men's team, is refused, and sues?

I doubt a transitioning woman to man could make a mens team

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (lKyWE)

139 The part that always confused me is that the ladies' tees are like ten feet closer. What possible difference does that make on a 300 yard hole?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (8nWyX)


In general the women's tees are a hell of a lot closer than that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (zc3Db)

140 If that ever comes to pass I'm going to ask to be referred to as His Royal Playa From The Himalayas.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 20, 2017 05:54 PM (nDcc3)

141 Part of what we celebrate in sports is our natural diversity. Our amazement of what random combinations of genetic materials can create, if honed by hard work.

Transgender crossovers in sports is the begging of the end for all sports. Because it basically says genetic manipulation is perfectly fine.

Unless we make the genetics of the participants MATTER, then all sports will be dead in 20 years. Or rather, it will be a contest between DuPont and MIT to edit the perfect athlete.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:54 PM (UgF8H)

142 Ha! Ha! Ha!

You own this feminazis. All you will have left is figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming.

Too bad, so sad. You think this is unfair but it's totes fair to force girls to put up with guys in the locker room. No F#@ks given.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 20, 2017 05:54 PM (RfzVr)

143 I bet zhe? can serve some really big sammiches

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2017 05:54 PM (PqqkK)

144 Nyc has a law that makes you call people xe etc. Fines are as high as 250k for non compliance. This shit is very real indeed.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 20, 2017 05:54 PM (tT1++)

145 I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.

Franz Kafka to the courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (oVJmc)

146 ""Rad-Fems" kind of sounds like a clan of irradiated mutant feminists in some post-apocalyptic wasteland."

Ha. Well the kind of are. They're...intense. But they're standing up to the trannies at least. Look up "TERFs". The shit the "oh so nice and misunderstood" MTTs write about them is beyond nauseating.

I'm about 80% bought in to the idea that this whole male transgender thing is just an attack on women and specifically lesbians. The "cotton ceiling" is all sorts of fucked up.

Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (mmKPT)

147 109
HR Departments now run the companies instead of the other way around.
Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX

No kidding, huh? That is one reason only get up from cubicle to go pee and get more coffee. AND, all with zero eye contact or greeting to whoever or what ever is in the hallway or bathroon with me at that time

Posted by: havildar-major at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (jpW6t)

148 >>Maine is pretty bad too. 22% of the entire state budget is Medicaid spending.

And both have Republican governors and each has a Senator that is fighting against the Obamacare repeal.

Shocking.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (/tuJf)

149 This should get good... trans-athletes seem to be at the height of selfishness and founded on terrible science. In the end the politics and social coersion trumps all

Posted by: Former mass resident at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (i1tGd)

150 This is where I plus the documentary The Red Pill again. You cannot unsee the human rights abuses by the SJWs and Feminists and government against men and boys.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (2qHjF)

151 They just said on The Five that one quarter of Kentucky's population is on Medicaid. What?

Don't remember this factual tidbit being reported anytime in the past 8 years.
Posted by: Golfman

____________

Aren't 1 out of 8 Americans on food stamps?

I'm still floored Republicans refuse to address this.

Do you know how many restaurants I see that accept EBT and proudly say so on the window?

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (9cYRJ)

152 New York City for one under the NYCHRL [New York City Human Rights Law]. I know it's not a state, but, this law cover 8 to 10 million people if you count those who commute into the city to work.


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I suppose that these laws only apply to those who identify as human

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (PqqkK)

153 If I'm gender-fluid I can compete in both men's and women's competitions.

It's time for the women's 100-yard dash?

I feel pretty, oh so pretty...

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (97XyN)

154 I learned it's illegal in my state to refuse to
use someone's preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a
time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.



Franz Kafka to the courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles
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Or The Amazing Kreskin.

Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (8b+oT)

155 The "cotton ceiling" is all sorts of fucked up.

Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2017 05:55 PM (mmKPT)


LOL.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (zc3Db)

156 The rage inducing noiz never stops

#smh

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (Om16U)

157 In general the women's tees are a hell of a lot closer than that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (zc3Db)


I never measured, but enough to make a difference on a 300 yard fairway?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (8nWyX)

158 127 Oh. Well, that is insulting! Same goes with women's tees. That assumes there's a difference between men and women, which is bigoted in the extreme!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:48 PM (NOIQH)


The part that always confused me is that the ladies' tees are like ten feet closer. What possible difference does that make on a 300 yard hole?
Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (8nWyX)
***

See, this proves that there are two types of people.
When I read "Women's Tees," I immediately pictured SMFH in a wet t-shirt, not thinking of golf at all...

Posted by: Leonard Smalls at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (Q3ES6)

159 Watching TWD on demand

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 05:57 PM (GPaiX)

160 119 Maine is pretty bad too. 22% of the entire state budget is Medicaid spending.

Posted by: Timon at March 20, 2017 05:51 PM (27k1O)





But that's not the same as saying goes 22% of the population is on Medicaid

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM (tT1++)

22% of Virginia's state budget is also Medicaid spending... the worse part is that that is the state's portion of the spending. With federal match, an amount equal to 44% of the state budget is spent on Medicaid.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 20, 2017 05:57 PM (FTXAT)

161 I take it we've given up on SMOD.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (PY9jH)

162 I doubt a transitioning woman to man could make a mens team
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
_______


Exactly, unless a woman is "roided" up, no way they can play at a professional level with men. And even then I doubt it.

Biology is a bitch

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (9cYRJ)

163 >>Conversely, how long before a womyn "transitioning" to man decides that she wants to be on a men's team, is refused, and sues?



Seem to recall a brouhaha around a transitional gal demanding to compete on the Harvard men's swim team a few years ago.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (NOIQH)

164 I doubt a transitioning woman to man could make a mens team
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Not sure that matters in this world.

You see, even if the person is an inferior athlete, they will claim that they are not on the team because they are "transgender." They will claim that "ability" has nothing to do with it, and that, given the chance, they will play just as well as men, because they are "men."

And our wascally cwazy judges will probably buy that argument.

Posted by: shibumi at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (FkAXz)

165 As Insty pointed out, the other hilarious part of the transgender mental defects is the hierarchy of privileged.

Where the richest and most naturally feminine are envied as they can deceive enough to elicit cat-calls from construction workers.
Or thought-rape, as the feminists call it.

While the poor and ugly trans have to suffer a regimen of daily shaving, duct tape and disinterest.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (ZQpd0)

166 neverskankles, Medicaid existed when Obama was in elementary school. It has no inherent connection to O-care - zip, nada, zilch. It's a separate issue entirely that was just tossed into the O-care legislation, sort of like federalization of student loans.


Oh sure, Medicaid is mostly a disaster, as far as we know (try to find any sort of governmental expenditure over decades on the scale of Medicaid that has been studied less - it's astonishing).


And it has pernicious effects on market development and pricing in the medical area, though probably less than Medicare.


But the (final) destruction of health insurance markets by O-care (such markets already suffered the "pre-existing conditions" of distorting federal tax treatment, state misregulation and cartelization, and anti-competitive dynamics at all levels mostly related to regulatory capture) is a separate matter.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (QDnY+)

167
Not gonna participate in this idiotic charade.

I will laugh in your face.


Posted by: irongrampa at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (X35Yt)

168 >> "We all deserve to be on an even playing field," Deborah Acason, from
the Australian Weightlifting Federation, told 1News Now. "It's difficult
when you believe that you're not. If it's not even, why are we doing
the sport?"


Ms Acason was, of course, immediately disqualified and banned from all future competitions for being a disgusting transphobic bigot.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (E5jIq)

169 "These stupid terrorists just aren't "woke" enough to understand why they are lashing out like they do.

It's just a cry for help against the cis-hetero White patriarchy!"

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You may be coming out of your slumber, but you are not "woke" yet.

If you were, you would understand fully that it is WE who have been lashing out at THEM for centuries. Check your privilege.

Posted by: RM at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (U3LtS)

170 I take it we've given up on SMOD.
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Hell no.

Posted by: shibumi at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (FkAXz)

171 Biology is a bitch...
Posted by: Maritime


...gender-fluid canine.

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (DQ4Fv)

172 Let xer show us how brave and strong xe is by joining the female Marines.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (PY9jH)

173 Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2017 05:58 PM (PY9jH)

Way too much fun now to hope for that

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (nDcc3)

174 I will never live down that double-whammy of shame.
Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 05:53 PM


zombie, just living in that wretched hive of Botox Mary and Newsome voters, not to mention documenting events so we don't have to experience the scum and villainy, is pretty effective pennance.

Hold your head up as a Horde Honoree!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (DMUuz)

175 Can he be a real woman since he has gotten his proper surgery in Sweden?

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (J70i0)

176 I've transitioned.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM (Tyii7)

177 If I'm gender-fluid I can compete in both men's and women's competitions.

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anything outside of the pool

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2017 06:00 PM (PqqkK)

178 Posted by: rhomboid at March 20, 2017 05:52 PM (QDnY+)

AND it wouldn't take a lot to convince an out of work coal worker who got Fed paid legal representation in their disability suit, who voted for Trump in 2016 but JEF in 2012, to swing the other way.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2017 06:00 PM (48QDY)

179 Along the same lines, If we had conservative judges with balls, they would start saying the NBA is guilty of disparate impact for having so many blacks on professional teams when they don't make that number up in the population.

Suddenly, I bet affirmative action laws would start changing if you made athletics go by the same rules.

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 06:00 PM (9cYRJ)

180 Our preferred pronoun is the royal we.

Posted by: the vouces in @votermom @vm head at March 20, 2017 06:00 PM (Om16U)

181 My mail server is woke.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (Tyii7)

182 Hello, officials. My robot partner would like to enter your weight lifting competition. Please be advised i have my lawyers on autodial if it is triggered.

Also, it will pound you into the floor like a empty soda can.

Posted by: Cyril J. Flabbanuz at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (4YGWz)

183 161 I take it we've given up on SMOD.

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ever since he decided to identify as a comet

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (PqqkK)

184 I am pretty sure men and women run the exact same difference in Marathons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (GPaiX)

185 not thinking of golf at all...
Posted by: Leonard Smalls at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (Q3ES6)


I understand each word individually, but...

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (8nWyX)

186 "it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun"

I wonder if this has been tested in the courts. I know some Christians who now explain that as a matter of conscience they can only use male or female pronouns. It seems to me they'd stand a good chance of winning in court.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (97XyN)

187 I've transitioned.
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 20, 2017 05:59 PM


It does sound like you're out of the woods.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (DMUuz)

188 voices

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Om16U)

189 "This is going to become more and more common, and the fractures between the feminist and transgender pressure groups are going to get too wide to paper over."

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Couldn't happen to two nicer sets of dictators.

Posted by: Decaf at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Tm3Ti)

190 This is unbridled insanity and the longer we indulge it the further over the cliff we go.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (FoTxO)

191 After Reading that second story,I have to wonder just how valuable the fired employee was. I can think of several people I would liked to have fired, just to have a reason to fire them. I can vice versa think of several people that I would have laughed in Xe face, when push comes to shove.

Posted by: Picric at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (s0VSd)

192 Do you know how many restaurants I see that accept EBT and proudly say so on the window?
Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (9cYRJ)

Food deserts FTW!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (48QDY)

193 I take it we've given up on SMOD.

I still wish it on California sometimes

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 06:02 PM (GPaiX)

194 Amazing how happy these people are too wield power and terminate someone's employment--something that has a real, tangible impact on their life--compared to a verbal slight, which to a normal person has a very incidental, ephemeral impact. But these aren't normal people. Or good people.

Oh, and for those that think that any of these folks will have problems with he double standards, think again. They will dutifully prohibit, soon enough, men from participating in women's events even if it isolates some of the T-men because they are still just enough "man" to have to bear the burden of their privilege. The inconsistency of the position will be forgotten soon enough.

Posted by: Martian Wonder at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (h+Yef)

195 So we're going to retroactively reinstate all those East German medals, right?

Posted by: GalosGann at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (md1b/)

196 I never measured, but enough to make a difference on a 300 yard fairway?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 05:56 PM (8nWyX)


Absolutely. Sometimes the women's tees are a good 50 yards ahead of the men's. Figuring par for women on a hole is based on yardage that is very much shorter than men's yardage for the same.

A 280 yard hole is a par 4 for women and a par 3 for men. That's a whole stroke difference.

Occasionally you'll get the men's and women's tees pretty close together on a short par three ... or on a course that can't afford to put a different tee in for the women, but in general you have to walk a good bit to get from the men's to the women's tees because women just hit the ball a lot shorter than the men. A lot shorter.

Women have tried to play in the PGA. Annika Sorenstam (the greatest women golfer ever) played and did okay - though she didn't make the cut. One of the guys who played with her in the tournament said that her hitting was near perfect, but she just didn't have the distance to compete. Another girl (the oriental American, whatshername) tried to play a couple of PGA events but couldn't cut it.

Interestingly, there have been a few guys who were short hitters (like long female yardage territory) who have done very well in the PGA.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (zc3Db)

197 this 'mens' NCAA basketball tournament is racist and sexis yo.

Posted by: Bearded Lumbersexual with Syphilis and Arm Sleeve Tattoo Live from the Target Womens Restroom Stall at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (S6ciR)

198 I wonder if this has been tested in the courts. I know some Christians who now explain that as a matter of conscience they can only use male or female pronouns. It seems to me they'd stand a good chance of winning in court.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud,
__________

No way would fines like that be upheld, at least after Gorsuch gets confirmed.

I think even a liberal court could see the slippery slope there with the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (9cYRJ)

199 http://bit.ly/2ntIxUj
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NSA DOCUMENTS PROVE SURVEILLANCE OF DONALD TRUMP & HIS FAMILY
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FYI It is Infowars Jerome Corsi

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (y3aQB)

200 We've transitioned.

Posted by: 30% of Amerika, according to the MFM at March 20, 2017 06:04 PM (Tyii7)

201 You know my least favorite thing about all this LBGTQ stuff is?

Being about 50 pages into a new book that I am thoroughly enjoying when wham, here comes the GAY character or more recently the TRANSGENDER character. It is usually just obligatory, nothing to do with the plot, but, gotta have it/ze/zer/zem.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 20, 2017 06:04 PM (kXoT0)

202 Medicaid is self-perpetuating.

The more government gets involved in medical care, the more the price goes up. The more the price goes up, the more people wind up as charity cases, requiring more government.

Like with higher ed, government involvement assures more government involvement.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2017 06:04 PM (oVJmc)

203 My preferred pronoun is, "I, the progressive speaker addressing zombie by zombie's preferred pronoun, love to gobble Trump's gigantic and impressive male genitalia."

Sure, it's a looooong pronoun, but it really gets the point across.

The proper usage in a sentence would be "I hate talking to zombie because I, the progressive speaker addressing zombie by zombie's preferred pronoun, love to gobble Trump's gigantic and impressive male genitalia preferred pronoun makes me say something embarrassing."

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 06:04 PM (DQ4Fv)

204 "If this puts an end to women's sports, and causes high schools and universities to just field one team, open to everyone, it will be exactly what these groups deserve."

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So again, how are they different from Taliban?

Posted by: Decaf at March 20, 2017 06:04 PM (Tm3Ti)

205 >>This is unbridled insanity and the longer we indulge it the further over the cliff we go.

Oh I don't know. We clearly aren't going to convince them that this stuff will only lead to tears. We've been trying that for years and they just come up with some new crazy. Might as well let them learn the stove is hot by touching it if they insist.

I'm fine with standing back and letting the inevitable car wreck happen. In fact, I'm going long in popcorn futures.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2017 06:05 PM (/tuJf)

206 Scalp-hunters seeking "acceptance" and scalps, but mostly scalps.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 20, 2017 06:05 PM (S2VsH)

207 StefanMolyneux
20/03/17 18:12
Getting suspended from The Blaze is like having your boarding pass on the Titanic revoked.

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 20, 2017 06:05 PM (y3aQB)

208 --
-
"xe repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem"
--------

Fuck xu.

Posted by: irright at March 20, 2017 06:06 PM (vqzjE)

209 >A quick visit to the supervisor resulted in the coworker being fired. There was standing ovation in the conference hall, with one member of the audience saying how "brave" xe was to enact change. Xe publicly responded that xe "needed to go above his head to get what I needed."

Might be best to go straight to "asshole". Or "cvnt".

Posted by: Michelle Obama at March 20, 2017 06:06 PM (48QDY)

210 "it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun"

I wonder if this has been tested in the courts. I know some Christians who now explain that as a matter of conscience they can only use male or female pronouns. It seems to me they'd stand a good chance of winning in court.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:01 PM (97XyN)

You know who won't be using those pronouns and who won't be punished. The Muslims, same folks who get away with scorning gays, gay marriage, and baking any damn cakes for gay nuptials.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 20, 2017 06:06 PM (kXoT0)

211 I thought EBT couldn't be used for prepared foods?
An ex-GF used to get major $ but couldn't use it at the deli.
COULD use the card for every form of junkfood and Pepsi available, but not lunchmeat...

Posted by: Leonard Smalls at March 20, 2017 06:06 PM (Q3ES6)

212 So sex selection abortions are now illegal, right?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:07 PM (97XyN)

213 Maybe guys who can't make the NBA should put on a
wig and dress and claim they are now womyn and take over the WNBA. That
would be a hoot

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2017 05:33 PM (493sH)

The man-she vaulters on the gymnastic teams! Imagine the furor!

Posted by: kathysayso at March 20, 2017 06:07 PM (43OZ6)

214 Another girl (the oriental American, whatshername) tried to play a couple of PGA events but couldn't cut it.


Michelle Wie. I had read that she'd hit 300 yard drives in competition when she was about 15, but no she didn't make it in the men's game.

Obligatory: she's hawt.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 20, 2017 06:07 PM (gIRsn)

215 So sex selection abortions are now illegal, right?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:07 PM (97XyN)


That's only because people were traditionally selecting for males.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 06:07 PM (zc3Db)

216 This is going to turn out to be one big cluster fuck when the Olympics fire up. LMFAO

Posted by: Old Nam Vet at March 20, 2017 06:08 PM (bKxiT)

217
You see, even if the person is an inferior athlete, they will claim that they are not on the team because they are "transgender." They will claim that "ability" has nothing to do with it, and that, given the chance, they will play just as well as men, because they are "men."


That's basically what Michael Sam did.He was too small to be an NFL lineman and too slow to be an NFL linebacker so he blamed being cut on the fact he was openly gay.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2017 06:08 PM (lKyWE)

218 "it's illegal in my state to refuse to use someone's preferred pronoun"



What state? Because I go by "Mr. God King Who Rules Over All Mortals".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2017 06:08 PM (Uohrc)

219 All of us heard today on MSNBC that Trump was spying on Hillary before and during the erection. This is against the law and we calls on Presdent Obama to do something about this lier and cheater named TRUMP !!! Trump lied and cheated which is the only way he could be win the elrction because everybody loved Hillarey Cliton and her husband.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at March 20, 2017 06:08 PM (WmgTn)

220 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2017 06:03 PM (zc3Db)

Oh, huh. I guess I've only ever played municipal and university courses; I've never seen a separate tee box unless it was a par 5 or a long 4. Usually it's just three markers in the same box a few yards apart.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 06:09 PM (8nWyX)

221 If I was the older worker I would have told 'xem', "Ok....then you must refer to me as His Lord, Royal Highness Ball of Masculinity, King of the Universe....every damn time. I will not respond to you unless you address me by my full name."

Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2017 06:09 PM (Enq6K)

222 All the ze/zer/zem stuff always makes me think of comic character actress ZaSu Pitts. ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 20, 2017 06:09 PM (kXoT0)

223 This post, and the vast number of comments that qualify for the vast right-wing comment conspiracy so prevalent on this blog, are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, bigoted, cowardly, un-American, intolerant, transphobic, ignorant, misogynist, climate denying, bullying, prejudiced pond scum, and probable cannibal*.

*Not that that's a bad thing, when organically lab-grown without transfats or labor that isn't paid a living wage.

Posted by: Womyn's Healt and Lifestyle Cooperative of Brattleboro, VT at March 20, 2017 06:09 PM (DMUuz)

224 216 This is going to turn out to be one big cluster fuck when the Olympics fire up. LMFAO



Usain Bolt will hold ALL sprint records.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2017 06:09 PM (Uohrc)

225
This seems far-fetched. And the author's name is "anonymous," so I am a bit suspicious.

Real name is xynononymix

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 06:10 PM (IqV8l)

226 Quick search shows Colorado has 1.375 million Medicaid and CHP+ enrollees out of a total state population of 5.46 million.

25.18%

Posted by: Muldoon at March 20, 2017 06:10 PM (wPiJc)

227 Xe, Xi, Xo, Xum...I smell the taint of a transitioned one.

Posted by: Zombie Andre the Giant at March 20, 2017 06:10 PM (Tyii7)

228 The Olympics HAS already started that shit and it resulted in three hermaphrodite types taking all the medals in the women's 800-meter or some such in the last Olympics. Castor somebody won the gold.

They just stopped having any rules about any of it for a while. Supposedly, they are going to come out with some new rules eventually.

Posted by: Alana at March 20, 2017 06:10 PM (NgE+t)

229 Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.

Of course, SJWs don't make things up.

But it does show that hiring these people isn't worth it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2017 06:10 PM (oVJmc)

230 Envision the day when women's teams are comprised of transgender men, with a few women here or there.

Posted by: kathysayso at March 20, 2017 06:11 PM (43OZ6)

231 214 Another girl (the oriental American, whatshername) tried to play a couple of PGA events but couldn't cut it.


Michelle Wie. I had read that she'd hit 300 yard drives in competition when she was about 15, but no she didn't make it in the men's game.

Obligatory: she's hawt.
Posted by: Bandersnatch,


Interestingly, the reason she failed in the pro men's golf circuit is NOT because she physically couldn't hit as long as the men (she could), but instead because she couldn't handle the psychological pressure. In the few men's tournaments she competed in, she made amateur-hour rules violations which cost her strokes, and missed gimme putts because the pressure was too great, etc.

Pro men's golf is about 40% golfing skill and 60% mental control.

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2017 06:11 PM (DQ4Fv)

232 If your fuck a female weightlifter and she is on top is that called a 'Rachel Corrie"?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 06:11 PM (KlI/a)

233 The Olympics HAS already started that shit and it resulted in three hermaphrodite types taking all the medals in the women's 800-meter or some such in the last Olympics. Castor somebody won the gold.

They just stopped having any rules about any of it for a while. Supposedly, they are going to come out with some new rules eventually.



East German Women's Teams hardest hit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2017 06:11 PM (Uohrc)

234 Wasn't all this covered in a Futurama episode?

Posted by: Strobe at March 20, 2017 06:12 PM (gbWkA)

235
Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired.


And that's what they're proud of

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2017 06:12 PM (lKyWE)

236 I want Neil DeAss Tyson FIRED!

Posted by: the PLANET Pluto at March 20, 2017 06:12 PM (PqqkK)

237 All of this makes me wonder if we should just give all of Lance Armstrong's medals back. I mean, if we don't give a fuck about doping anymore (and that's what testosterone shots are), then let's be consistent about it.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 20, 2017 06:12 PM (S2VsH)

238 Businesses are chickenshits, and most of the larger ones are converged if they aren't original owner. So hardly surprising.

Posted by: Chupacabra at March 20, 2017 06:13 PM (/x6xU)

239 Scalp-hunters seeking "acceptance" and scalps, but mostly scalps.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 20, 2017 06:05 PM


Fur Oil is most cromulent for these, as well, you know.

Posted by: Gwyneth P., lifestyle guru at March 20, 2017 06:13 PM (DMUuz)

240 My solution to the forced use of made up gender pronouns, is to not use any pronouns at all, just refer to the person by name only.



I'll just call them all "Johnson".

IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Muldoon at March 20, 2017 06:13 PM (wPiJc)

241 How do you even pronounce xem or xe. By the way spellcheck does not recognize either usage. I sense a a lawsuit coming on.

Posted by: Javems at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (yOqwj)

242 What ever happened to "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me"?

Posted by: Goldilocks at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (zz1sH)

243 I thought EBT couldn't be used for prepared foods?

An ex-GF used to get major $ but couldn't use it at the deli.

COULD use the card for every form of junkfood and Pepsi available, but not lunchmeat...

Posted by: Leonard Smalls at March 20, 2017 06:06 PM (Q3ES6)

They are now putting cash TANF benefits on the same EBT card as food assistance money. The food assistance money cannot be used for prepared foods. The TANF money can be used for whatever (although it is meant to cover clothing, toiletries and utility bills that are not covered by other assistance).

It shocks me how bold and lacking any shame EBT recipients are.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (FTXAT)

244 In my estimation, they're all pustulant XITs.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (Dhht7)

245 "If you lift weights with a schlong, it's just plain wrong."

Posted by: Johnnie Cochran at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (8ZskC)

246 East German Women's Teams hardest hit.
Posted by: rickb223


Pssst...

Posted by: 1990 at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (4YGWz)

247 " A speaker (pronouns xe, xyr, xemself) passionately told us of a time
when xe had an older coworker who referred to xem as "ma'am." When xe
repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem, he responded
that he couldn't, because he had been brought up to be polite and use
sir and ma'am."


The smell of an age discrimination lawsuit wafts over.

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (d3wbb)

248 "My solution to the forced use of made up gender pronouns, is to not use any pronouns at all, just refer to the person by name only"

I was thinking "xit" has a lot of promise. Pronounced "zit."

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:15 PM (97XyN)

249 What will this do to Olympic drug testing?

Posted by: LASue, the most deplorable at March 20, 2017 06:15 PM (CLKfs)

250 Michelle Wie. I had read that she'd hit 300 yard drives in competition when she was about 15, but no she didn't make it in the men's game.

Obligatory: she's hawt.
Posted by: Bandersnatch



The LPGA is now full of some reasonably attractive girls. They range from very cute to smoking hot.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 20, 2017 06:15 PM (pY+s4)

251 49 If I lost my arm, and replaced with with say, a super biomechanical arm, and wanted to pitch in the MLB with 150 mile an hour fastballs, the other teams might call foul. It wouldn't be because of hatred toward the disabled.
Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:36 PM (UgF8H)


As with many things, "Twilight Zone" anticipated that over 50 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Casey

Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2017 06:15 PM (sdi6R)

252 Old Dog stole my shit.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (97XyN)

253 I think I just xharted.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (Tyii7)

254 If we get them to say their pronoun backwards, do they disappear like Mr. Mxyzptlk?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (oVJmc)

255 The WNBA is screwed.


Posted by: Huckleberry Hound at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (UsCnO)

256 I seem to recall that a lot of people who signed up for Obamacare were dumped into Medicaid.

This happened to a relative this year. Signed up, paid first month's premium, next month received a letter informing her that her coverage had been transferred. I would bet that some of the people to whom this happened might have liked the option of instead getting some type of catastrophic coverage only, instead of being forced to choose from one of the larded-up HHS mandated plans.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (NOIQH)

257 What will this do to Olympic drug testing?

Posted by: LASue, the most deplorable at March 20, 2017 06:15 PM

If you can fill the cup standing up without squatting, you're cut from the women's team until you get cut.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 20, 2017 06:16 PM (S2VsH)

258 Is 'fag' still ok?

Posted by: Weasel at March 20, 2017 06:17 PM (bDXcl)

259 Total US Medicaid enrollment (according to Medicaid.gov) is 69 million.

Out of 318 million that is almost 22%.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 20, 2017 06:17 PM (wPiJc)

260 "Is 'fag' still ok?"

Xag.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (97XyN)

261 242 What ever happened to "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me"?
Posted by: Goldilocks at March 20, 2017 06:14 PM (zz1sH)


That's probably considered hate speech today.

Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (sdi6R)

262 The wiki link on Marathon I put up above has a large list under of participants records being noted for dopeing scandals,

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (GPaiX)

263 The next AoSHOQ Pet Thread will feature doggehs transitioning to kittehs.

Posted by: Basement Cat at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (3C9q2)

264 142 ICE detainer requests DENIED in Travis County (Austin, Tx.). 206 denied detainer requests nationwide.

https://tinyurl.com/kw8pxce


I live in TC. The Eyes of Texas are upon us. And yes, it burns.

Posted by: Skunky Choom at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (u/p7K)

265 Is 'fag' still ok?
Posted by: Weasel at March 20, 2017 06:17 PM (bDXcl)


Only ironically.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 20, 2017 06:19 PM (8ZskC)

266
All the ze/zer/zem stuff always makes me think of comic character actress ZaSu Pitts

And ZZ Top

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 06:19 PM (IqV8l)

267 263 The next AoSHOQ Pet Thread will feature doggehs transitioning to kittehs.
Posted by: Basement Cat at March 20, 2017 06:18 PM (3C9q2)
---------
I already have WeaselDog watch-listed for this.

Posted by: Weasel at March 20, 2017 06:19 PM (bDXcl)

268 All the ze/zer/zem stuff always makes me think of comic character actress ZaSu Pitts

And ZZ Top

*****


Ahem!

Posted by: King Xerxes at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (wPiJc)

269 If your fuck a female weightlifter and she is on top is that called a 'Rachel Corrie"?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2017 06:11 PM (KlI/a)


Ummmmmm...Yes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (5VlCp)

270
The next AoSHOQ Pet Thread will feature doggehs transitioning to kittehs.
Posted by: Basement Cat


Only humans could be this stupid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (IqV8l)

271 My preferred pronouns are xzxsnixkzx, klknrzgl, and gflrn (pronounced 'bbbbbbbbbbbbb.')

My lawyers are on standby.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (oVJmc)

272 'Old Dog stole my shit.'

Old dog don't learn new tricks,
Old dog don't fetch no sticks
Old dog don't waste his licks
But he can still bury a bone.

Posted by: Zombie Shel Silverstein at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (BO/km)

273 241 How do you even pronounce xem or xe. By the way spellcheck does not recognize either usage. I sense a a lawsuit coming on.

---

watch out Scrabble...

Posted by: the PLANET Pluto at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (PqqkK)

274 Hell, I feel like blowing something up now.

Tanks or battleships?

I think I will start with the tank warfare!

Posted by: Subterranean JT at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (qG0hz)

275 From looking at the women powerlifters...close to 600 pounds seems reasonable.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at March 20, 2017 06:20 PM (uhftQ)

276 Yes.... and to the update...

They somehow believe that 12 months of NOT having over a specific level of hormone, makes up for a LIFETIME before that of muscle development?

or that the ONLY difference between Men's and Women's bodies.... are due to Hormones?

Posted by: Don Q. at March 20, 2017 06:21 PM (NgKpN)

277 ALL meritocracies must be destroyed
- the progressive movement


How else can they justify a bunch of losers (them) ruling over our lives?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 20, 2017 06:21 PM (LWu6U)

278 242 What ever happened to "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me"?

---

nope, says nothing about pronouns. We're gonna need a Schoolhouse Rock update

Posted by: the PLANET Pluto at March 20, 2017 06:21 PM (PqqkK)

279 Total US Medicaid enrollment (according to Medicaid.gov) is 69 million.

Out of 318 million that is almost 22%.
Posted by: Muldoon
_____

And then add in MediCare, the VA, people that work for state, local and federal governments, etc and we really do have socialized medicine. It's one group pays a lot more for it.

Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2017 06:22 PM (9cYRJ)

280 266
All the ze/zer/zem stuff always makes me think of comic character actress ZaSu Pitts

And ZZ Top
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 06:19 PM (IqV8l)

Because every (insert correct term) crazy about a sharp dressed (insert person's selected gender).

Posted by: Don Q. at March 20, 2017 06:22 PM (NgKpN)

281 255 The WNBA is screwed.


----

nah, just licked

Posted by: the PLANET Pluto at March 20, 2017 06:23 PM (PqqkK)

282
We're gonna need a Schoolhouse Rock update
Posted by: the PLANET Pluto


I'm just a Xill up on capitol hill.

Posted by: Xill at March 20, 2017 06:23 PM (IqV8l)

283 The LPGA is now full of some reasonably attractive girls. They range from very cute to smoking hot.


One of them, Sophie Sandolo, thought it would raise the profile of the women's game if she did a series of topless calendars.

It did.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 20, 2017 06:23 PM (gIRsn)

284 I still can't wrap my mind around how someone can get fired for NOT calling you your proffered pronoun...

When Freedom of SPEECH is a Right in this country.

Posted by: Don Q. at March 20, 2017 06:24 PM (NgKpN)

285 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at March 20, 2017 06:25 PM (wPiJc)

286 When Freedom of SPEECH is a Right in this country.
Posted by: Don Q. at March 20, 2017 06:24 PM (NgKpN)


Whenever you think "freedom of speech", remember that it only applies to the government restricting speech.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 06:25 PM (8nWyX)

287 >>>If your fuck a female weightlifter and she is on top is that called a 'Rachel Corrie"?

No, it's called penile fracture.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 20, 2017 06:26 PM (Cg0GI)

288 One of them, Sophie Sandolo, thought it would raise the profile of the women's game if she did a series of topless calendars.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 20, 2017 06:23 PM (gIRsn)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374221050263818327/

NSFW

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2017 06:27 PM (rF0hx)

289

All the ze/zer/zem stuff always makes me think of comic character actress ZaSu Pitts


And ZZ Top
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2017 06:19 PM (IqV8l)


Because every (insert correct term) crazy about a sharp dressed (insert person's selected gender). Posted by: Don Q. at March 20, 2017 06:22 PM (NgKpN)

=====

And my childrens' favorite: Xuxa.



Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2017 06:28 PM (MIKMs)

290 198 I wonder if this has been tested in the courts. I know some Christians who now explain that as a matter of conscience they can only use male or female pronouns. It seems to me they'd stand a good chance of winning in court.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud,
__________

No way would fines like that be upheld, at least after Gorsuch gets confirmed.

I think even a liberal court could see the slippery slope there with the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: Maritime
_________

Fines? You call those fines? They're a tax. Totes constitutional.

Posted by: John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Food Court at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (j+dfT)

291 49 If I lost my arm, and replaced with with say, a super biomechanical arm, and wanted to pitch in the MLB with 150 mile an hour fastballs, the other teams might call foul. It wouldn't be because of hatred toward the disabled.
Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:36 PM (UgF8H)

"Annnnnd, the pitch comes in over the plate at 250 mph. Why is the catcher screaming? Oh, he just lost a hand, that's why. Yeah, that must of stung a little."

Posted by: Donna, tan now gone but with &&&&&&& to burn and so there at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (P8951)

292 I am an empowered woman who can kick your ass, damnit.

I'm not at all gender confused.

Posted by: Xena, Warrior Princess at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (gIRsn)

293 Is 'asshead' a pronoun?

Posted by: Weasel at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (bDXcl)

294 If your fuck a female weightlifter and she is on top is that called a 'Rachel Corrie"?

No, it's called penile fracture.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 20, 2017 06:26 PM (Cg0GI)

I called her Tracy. Lots of good memories about that girl...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (zsHGH)

295 222, Sherry McEvil - Yes, and her candy cookbook is great!

Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 20, 2017 06:30 PM (/WPPJ)

296 After commenting that we were probably not allowed to package our products in "feminine" colors anymore, had a coworker explain that there is no "gender binary," and that the incident of children born with both female and male genitalia is approximately the same number as are born with red hair.

To which I sweetly replied, "Bullshit."

I also informed him that gender refers to nouns and sometimes to verbs, but not to people. People have sex, not gender. I may be a noun, or at least a pronoun, but I do not have a gender. I am not a social construct. I'm probably not even socially adept. But I do have a sex, and that sex is female, and no gender-bender is going to change that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2017 06:32 PM (cm1Bl)

297 Any resemblance of my new prosthetic arm to a bazooka is purely accidental.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 20, 2017 06:32 PM (97XyN)

298 It's been posited for a while that this is the logical endpoint of this nonsense - women's sports being dominated by men. Will this 'mugged by reality' moment be enough to curb any of this garbage? Probably not - it doesn't effect enough people. If this causes the WNBA to shut down, other than the players and a few hundred thousand lesbians, will anyone really care?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 20, 2017 06:33 PM (uuwor)

299 283 The LPGA is now full of some reasonably attractive girls. They range from very cute to smoking hot.


One of them, Sophie Sandolo, thought it would raise the profile of the women's game if she did a series of topless calendars.

It did.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 20, 2017 06:23 PM (gIRsn)

I see the game has changed a bit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2017 06:34 PM (cm1Bl)

300 "I was scared to go alone to my ultrasound; so I took a friend.
Throughout the procedure, the nurse kept referring to me as a 'she'.
Each time, my friend would correct her. After a while, the nurse seemed
confused. 'She's having a baby,' she insisted." 'No,' my friend responded, 'he's having a baby.' It was very upsetting..."



That is nuts. YOU are confused, not the nurse.
If you're pregnant you are not a man. Period.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 06:35 PM (NOIQH)

301 If this causes the WNBA to shut down, other than the players and a few hundred thousand lesbians, will anyone really care?
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean
______

Don't forget people who get excited about watching the raw athleticism involved in making a left-handed layup.

Posted by: Furious George, Just Being a Dick at March 20, 2017 06:35 PM (j+dfT)

302 Article should read:

Iuniarra Sipaia, who would be broke if she had to buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune, finished in 2nd.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 20, 2017 06:35 PM (uuwor)

303 Testosterone testing is a ridiculous metric. Hormones are not all there is to it. Male phenotype of equivalent fitness will almost as rule always have advantage in some physical activities because of length of bone, pelvis/shoulder girth/hand size, lung capacity and blood vessel size. width, bone density, muscle mass.

Adding a bag of water to the chest generally does not interfere with this, and hormone levels can only modify, not eliminate advantage.

Heck, most women would rather compete against a genetic male with lcomplete androgen insensitivity - their testosterone levels can be competely normal for a male (although the usual situation is crypto-orchism with eventual surgical removal to prevent cancer) but the body is hyper-female.

No former male who was born phenotypically male should be allowed to complete with women, ever.

Posted by: SarahW at March 20, 2017 06:36 PM (Sp1NT)

304 It shocks me how bold and lacking any shame EBT recipients are.
Posted by: redbanzai


Watch Judge Judy for a while. She always asks people where they get the money they are living on. She's had whole families who are on disability. Mom, Dad, adult child, young child. All getting disability. If you've known people who need it, people with spina bifida, Parkinsons Disease, and so on, it is disgusting to see. At my old home, my next door neighbor had been on disability for 15 years. He was a bum, pure and simple.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 20, 2017 06:36 PM (+lVUW)

305 "Don't forget people who get excited about watching the raw athleticism involved in making a left-handed layup.

Posted by: Furious George, Just Being a Dick at March 20, 2017 06:35 PM (j+dfT) "

B-but...solid fundamentals! Everyone wants to shell out big bucks to see solid fundamentals! The Mikan Drill is exciting, damnit!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 20, 2017 06:36 PM (uuwor)

306 "That is nuts. YOU are confused, not the nurse.
If you're pregnant you are not a man. Period."

Let me show you that 2+2=5. You'll feel much better.

Posted by: Big Brother at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (97XyN)

307 Hillary is the nude.

Posted by: Xena, Warrior Princess at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (gIRsn)

308 This workplace name stuff is bullshit. Why should I be forced to participate in another's mental illness?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (U+nHb)

309 nood sasquatch.

Also there's a new post.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (8nWyX)

310

I'm a man in love and I love
What it's doin' to me.
Having my baby.
I'm a man in love and I love
What's goin' through me.

Posted by: Xill at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (IqV8l)

311 http://nyp.st/2ntGqA2
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Ivanka Trump to join White House staff
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JUST UUUGGGHHH!!

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 20, 2017 06:37 PM (y3aQB)

312 "Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 20, 2017 05:36 PM (UgF8H) "

I was promised robots in baseball by the year 2020 - or at least that's what the game Super Baseball 2020 would have me believe.

On the plus side, your robot pitcher can't lie about still being fresh for a few more batters when he's literally on fire.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 20, 2017 06:39 PM (uuwor)

313 I wasn't clear in my previous post. It isn't disgusting that people with spina bifida and Parkinsons get disability, it is disgusting that bums are using up the money that should go to people who have actual medical disabilities.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 20, 2017 06:39 PM (+lVUW)

314 Congratulations! Nice jerk!

Posted by: Serena Williams at March 20, 2017 06:40 PM (Ey6du)

315 After commenting that we were probably not allowed
to package our products in "feminine" colors anymore, had a coworker
explain that there is no "gender binary," and that the incident of
children born with both female and male genitalia is approximately the
same number as are born with red hair.



To which I sweetly replied, "Bullshit."



I also informed him that gender refers to nouns and sometimes to
verbs, but not to people. People have sex, not gender. I may be a noun,
or at least a pronoun, but I do not have a gender. I am not a social
construct. I'm probably not even socially adept. But I do have a sex,
and that sex is female, and no gender-bender is going to change that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2017 06:32 PM (cm1Bl)

Also double bullshit since the percent of the population born with genitalia that does not match their DNA (or both sets of genitalia or even indeterminate genitalia) is less than .006% of the population. Redheads make up 2%-6% of the population.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 20, 2017 06:40 PM (FTXAT)

316 I think this has an impact when it affects all sports at all levels.

Think those parents in TX whose daughters had to compete against a roided-up trans-man in the wrestling state championships were mugged by reality.

When people's kids start getting injured by transmale competitors, when their daughter loses out on a sports scholarship, on a chance at international team/Olympic competition, it will hit home. It's easy to applaud a trans athlete from afar, but much harder when your daughter loses out o him and then has the pleasure of showering next to him after the competition.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2017 06:40 PM (NOIQH)

317 Watch Judge Judy for a while. She always asks people
where they get the money they are living on. She's had whole families
who are on disability. Mom, Dad, adult child, young child. All getting
disability. If you've known people who need it, people with spina
bifida, Parkinsons Disease, and so on, it is disgusting to see. At my
old home, my next door neighbor had been on disability for 15 years. He
was a bum, pure and simple.





Posted by: nerdygirl at March 20, 2017 06:36 PM (+lVUW)


in the poor neighborhood I grew up in those disability checks were called "crazy checks" because so many parents got their kids diagnosed with mental issues so they could apply for SSDI to supliment their AFDC (now TANF). SMH

Posted by: redbanzai at March 20, 2017 06:45 PM (FTXAT)

318 This is not new. http://tinyurl.com/lc7nxks

Posted by: Locke Common at March 20, 2017 07:10 PM (NjVbM)

319 Time for private sports clubs.

And people wonder why Trump won....

Posted by: The Man from Athens at March 20, 2017 07:15 PM (bGG6f)

320 313 I wasn't clear in my previous post. It isn't disgusting that people with spina bifida and Parkinsons get disability, it is disgusting that bums are using up the money that should go to people who have actual medical disabilities.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 20, 2017 06:39 PM (+lVUW)

~~~~

Yes you were!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at March 20, 2017 07:16 PM (bGG6f)

321 Does anyone find it strange or amazing that the difference between the 1st place lifter at 591 lbs and the second place actual female (?) lifter at 572 lbs is less than 20 pounds?

Posted by: Moron Labia at March 20, 2017 07:42 PM (BbCS4)

322 Hey, she persisted.

Posted by: scottst at March 20, 2017 08:09 PM (hpKSS)

323 I really don't see how the NYC law would hold up in court. Looks like a crystal clear violation of First Amendment rights (and NYC is government, so they're bound by it). I can't wait for this bullshit to settle in where I work. Tenure isn't an absolute protection, but it's a pretty good place to be at the start of the fight. Plus, I'll get the English Dept. on record either recognizing made-up words (in which case I will strongly encourage students to take full advantage of the possibilities that ensue), or taking my side.

Then, I'll submit a manuscript or grant application using made-up pronouns and see how the journals and NIH respond. When they call bullshit, I'll ask my employer if they'd rather have the support of the young Maoists (and faculty noting which side the administration is taking) or the money and publications.

What? A guy can dream...

Posted by: Crimso at March 20, 2017 08:31 PM (uCLNU)

324 There doesn't need to be a medical test, just let me see your crotch! If there's a penis, you are a guy, if there is a vagina you are a woman, if there's both or neither you have bigger problems than winning a gold medal in anything except being weird.

Posted by: hurricane567 at March 20, 2017 10:43 PM (CbENG)

325 And to think we used to joke about what the East Germans did to women Olympians. We're worse than they ever were.

Posted by: mikey at March 21, 2017 05:23 AM (HAWZY)

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