That's why I didn't offer those details in my initial post. I never considered them relevant.
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You mean Hubbard and Thomas? Well, anecdote comes a lot closer to statistical significance if its magnitude is huge than if it is small--and Hubbard's and Thomas's improvements are surely extreme.
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I did. In fact I reported it six or seven times as the curses multiplied. In one case the post was taken down, but the fact remains that many of ookami's posts, including personal attacks that violate the board's rules, are still up. There are two standards here whether you care to admit it or not.
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So you are arguing that two instances prove your case? Would it change anything if I added the details--like the fact that Fallen Fox sent her opponent to the hospital in 58 seconds? I didn't include such facts because they are anecdotal and cannot be interpreted as statistically significant. But two trans-women's having competed in MMA over a decade hardly vindicates your position that
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I have been explicit about the need for data, as opposed to anecdote, in this discussion. But that problem cuts both ways--as the article you linked indicates.
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How so?
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And ookami has not cursed at me in the past? LOL
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What's disturbing in this thread--and in fact in much of ookami's fucking* bullshit* rants--is the binary nature of the thinking. ookami feels strongly, so he is correct and anyone who disagrees is evil. Get in line or else. *I had an earlier post deleted from this thread for profanity. My hope here is that if I restrict my bad language precisely to the terms ookami has used, I will
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> Okay, my kid says that trans women have always > been competing because of Air Bud rules, but the > freaking out is new (past 5-10 years). I'd love to see your daughter's sources on past trans-women in fighting sports. --------------- > She also says it’s political. We always need a boogeyman. She is correct. We live in a time of great opposition to trans-people,
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Through 2022 there had been two trans-women in MMA. The first one was Fallen Fox in 2014. The second was Alana McLaughlin in 2021, who competed in MMA only once. Theirs were small events. I cannot find any mention of other trans-women who have fought in MMA although I suspect there may well be some at the local level. The big organizations are considering the matter and encountering opposi
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There is discussion of it.
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The weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was ranked 219 in the world when she retired from competition as a man in 2001. She took 15 or so years off and returned to the sport as a nearly middle-aged woman and rose to a rank of number seven in the world. The swimmer Lia Thomas was ranked 554 among men in the United States in the 200m. After her transition, she ranked fifth among women. Before her t
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Surely you don't mean that. Pol Pot was not "democratically elected." Nor were his predecessors. What the US did was not to destroy a democracy but rather to undermine a tolerable dictatorship, which is bad enough.
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Thank you.
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It's a horrible law designed by horrible people in a horrible state. Why would anyone expect anything else?
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> I live, cook, sleep, and love with > one of the people summer and Lot's Wife call a > threat when they haven't met trans people. How do you know whom summer and I know?
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So thinking trans-women have an athletic advantage over cis-women is the same thing as defending violence against trans-people? You live in a very simple world.
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> summer, Lot's Wife, Rubicon, Done & Done- don't > bother posting on this thread. Go start your own board, ookami. Then you can decide who can post and who cannot.
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> I think it's equally fascinating to observe how > language morphs, to the extent that some words > even come to mean their own exact opposites (can't > think of an example at the moment but I know it's > a thing). That's a terrific question to pose, an incredibly credible question; one that fills me with so much awe that I feel awful; one whose answer we should sanction bu
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No one is asking you to surrender anything. All I said was that it is understandable that some people--well, many people--are acutely sensitive to that word in its various permutations. Correct me if I am wrong, but the term "limey" is not related to the appearance of peoples who were enslaved for centuries and still suffer legal and other disadvantages on the basis of that appearan
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That's the gravamen of the discussion. No one is banning any words. All we did was describe a social norm borne of a reasonable misunderstanding. At that point the question becomes whether insistence on a pedantic truth is more appropriate than deference to people who reasonably take offense. Every person can answer the question however he wants. We do not number among those who think
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> LW says: "The word that NG introduced...". To be > clear, I didn't introduce the word - it's a word > kentish used and I was responding to it. Understood. --------------- > It wasn’t “a cluster of > terms” but rather one word. You wrote of a single word, yes. But the word takes many forms, including as a noun, both singular and plural; a verb, wi
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One of his ex-wives told me Jesus suffers from omnipotence.
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That from the man who praised Pol Pot the other day.
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+1!
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Wow. I'm impressed. You'd mentioned that you haven't been in the States for ten years, from which I inferred that you were probably in Japan. I also noted the hours at which you generally post. There were/are so many missions in Japan that the number of fluent RMs in the country must be enormous. Dime a dozen. But judging from what I've been told, someone who's good enough to read Kyoka mu
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An attempted coup would be too and yet it happened.
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Wut
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> The word in question predates the N word by more > than 200 years. Incorrect. The word that NG introduced entered English in the 14th century. By contrast, the original N word is Latin and has been in use by the educated classes since Roman times. Even in its pejorative sense it--and, importantly, similar words--were considered neutral until the late 18th century, when they be
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You mean "there is zero connection between the words" other than virtually identical pronunciations. It's worth noting that the word you implicitly accept as a racial slur was itself originally nothing of the kind and hence had "zero connection" with its present usage. Yet apparently you see why in that case changes in meaning and nuance matter and words that were once neu
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