I guess it's too hard to consider real people with real opinions might populate a niche website with small userbase and an active anti-advertising attitude.
I guess it's also too hard to just look at an account and decide if it seems spammy or if it seems like a real person, and easier to just cast aspersions because they... annoyed you?
Anyway, thanks for standing up for us both.
To highlight the points you're making, Sport England itself has data on its main page that stipulates that women are less active than men in general and that starts at a young age.
https://www.sportengland.org/research-and-data/research/gender
Our new 10-year strategy launched in 2021, Uniting the Movement, is our plan to make being physically active a normal part of life for everyone in England – to make it easier for all of us as we go about our everyday lives.
Because currently, it’s not always a level playing field.
We know that women are less active than men, and this gender gap starts with girls being less active from a very young age.
This inequality, as well as others, is at the very core of Uniting the Movement and we have a laser focus on tackling them in all that we do, because providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind, and helping to remove the barriers to activity, has never been more important.
So, surprise, it's probably not just "genetics" or "testosterone" as people keep claiming that all men are naturally stronger, when the statistics say that women are by and large less active, and that since this starts at a young age, it can have a long-term affect on women's sports abilities.
On top of this, socially, women with lots of muscles are often not viewed as sexually desirable, despite being stronger than a lot of men in their weight class. So it's also justified to consider maybe women don't pursue strength as a virtue in the way a lot of men do, due to social expectations.
As Sport England points out, they're often not being told socially that they can and should be active and involved, and on top of that, they often have negative social consequences for doing so.
Literally a huge part of what Sport England is supposed to do is supposed to be about outreach and inclusivity, to make all Britons more active.
That should include making trans people more active, instead of looking for more reasons to remove them from activities.
I'm over 40 and while I was taught to do research on a Microfische, I was regularly told not to trust anything on the internet.
As for media literacy, no way in hell. Especially after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 started allowing mass consolidation of media empires. In the 1980's, majority of US media was owned by around 80 companies, in the modern era, it's five that own the majority of the US media landscape.
You say the name "Marshall McLuhan" or even "the medium is the message" and you get confused fucking looks.
Nothing can break me... except being expected to pay up for things. No, that's on you plebes.
When you shit so hard you almost go Super Saiyan.
But whose to say that the real problem is the prune juice?
Silly Klingon, that stuff constipates Klingons! You can't just eat human food and hope it works the same on your alien body!
Except that the sports overseeing body tested it and found out that Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges, the athlete in question, IS actually able to cast twice as far as most women.
You're asking me to read the article, but nothing in the article stipulates as much, except an anecdote from the team coach, which doesn't say Becky can cast 150 meters, but says "Men can."
This is the statement from the body overseeing this sport:
Other articles about the same thing repeatedly say: "The Angling Trust has denied claims that transgender women have a physical advantage in fishing."
So if the Angling Trust is defending her, and they aren't changing the rules unless told to by a larger sports body, who is this sports body that "proved" this, then?
Jamie Cook, chief executive of the Angling Trust, said: 'As the national governing body for angling, the question we are required to address by Sport England is whether the sport of angling is gender impacted to an extent where fairness overrides inclusion or safety.
'The view of the Angling Trust board is that as a non-contact sport, the safety concern is not deemed significant within the sport of angling.'
There are literally zero articles that support the idea that a sports overseeing body tested it and found out. I think you're fucking misreading this shit, man. But I suppose that's what you got for taking anything printed in The Daily Fail seriously.
The article is mostly commenting on a fucking shitty anti-trans Daily Mail article, so make of that what you will, people.
66-year-old team captain Heather told the Daily Mail that the team has already been “humiliated” with Hodges in their team. She claimed that the 2018 world championships “wasn’t a nice situation, mainly because all the other countries wouldn’t speak to us.”
‘The managers wouldn’t speak to our manager. They were all against us. When we went up to collect our medal, nobody clapped and people walked out,” Heather said, adding, “Although Becky Lee would be an asset to my team, it’s unfair on everyone else. And if you win in a situation like that, you can’t enjoy the victory, because it feels like you’ve cheated.”
Sounds like she's more upset that bigots decided to be bigoted, and that to her, the real problem is she doesn't get to be praised by bigots anymore.
“Many of the Angling Trust board members don’t fish and don’t know the sport. A man can cast 150 yards, but I can only cast about 70 yards. Some of the girls can only cast 50 yards. Body strength plays a major part and it gives Becky Lee a lot more water that she can fish in.”
Trans women, of course, are not men and are often receiving gender-affirming health care that lowers their testosterone levels.
Their anecdotes don't mean shit against the voluminous scientific evidence that trans women simply do not have enough of an advantage to justify discrimination.
The only person in the article claiming that there is unfair advantage is the 66-year-old coach who is upset that players from other countries don't celebrate them anymore, and instead of chalking that up to them being bigoted jerks, she chalks it up to "we need to kick out the trans person because bigots aren't nice to us anymore." I'm just gonna go out on a fucking limb and assume her age has something to do with being a totally out of touch fucking nitwit, and why she would defend the bigots instead of telling them to pound fucking sand.
Also, let's not forget that this interview was with The Daily Mail a well known conservative shitrag that pushes conservative politics. This 66 year old fucking fossil chose this as the place to give her concerns. She chose a conservative propaganda shitrag, that's on her and speaks loudly to her shitty politics.
That's where this interview was originally from. It's a fucking propaganda shitrag.
You think you're clever, but you're not. I'm not sure someone whose education seems to be focused on an era where psychology didn't exist as a discipline should be expounding on it, either.
So, the people invoking monster names knew what psychological warfare was because they understood psychology? I call bollocks on that.
But keep telling yourself you're right and just misunderstood. I'm sure that will mean fuck-all when you're dead and nobody remembers you existed, just like me.
None of those prove that a psychologist using well documented evidence on human psychology is the same as fucking nitwits naming monsters after people they didn't like. I literally referenced the era of modern propaganda techniques, which coincides with a growth of the understanding of psychology in promoting propaganda. I didn't say "propaganda never existed at all prior to the revolutions."
But keep ignoring specific words I use to try to convince yourself you're right. Seriously, comparing psychologists to people who named monsters after disliked people. Fucking laugh riot.
My contribution from a few weeks ago:
https://lemmy.ml/post/5239029