okey dokey lokey

It’s just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns, and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?

[bearhole-deactivated20251019]

[laslloronas]

[mindflamer]

there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

[symphonicseauxl]

People look so different once you don’t care about them anymore

[imightjustbegone-deactivated201]

@ august please be a little gentle with me I’m so tired

[eriochromatic]

🌗 Into Tartarus // Out of Tartarus 🔥

[penny-anna]

a lot going on w this whole boxing drama but have to say JK Rowling having made an enemy of the entire country of Taiwan is a definite highlight

[penny-anna]

best as i can tell 90+% of people weighing in on this on twitter not only don't understand how chromosomes work they also just don't know shit about boxing

[penny-anna]

@fluffyblue-multifandommess Wait, why Taiwan? Isn't the athlete this whole BS controversy is about Algerian?

ok so what happened is as follows:

in 2023 the IBA disqualified 2 boxers, Imane Khelif (Algerian) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwanese) on the grounds that they had failed 'gender eligibility testing'.

the Olympics Committee has (I think?) recently broken ties with the IBA citing various ethical concerns so both athletes were re-evaluated and allowed to compete

the current controversy is mostly focusing on Imane Khelif bcos she basically one-shotted another boxer but people, including JK Rowling, are also saying that Lin Yu-Ting shouldn't be allowed to compete

this has resulted in a lot of very angry Taiwanese people (rightly) calling JKR a racist who can't tell Asian men and women apart. tear her apart guys!!

[rapidashrider]

Also terfs are tying themselves in desperate knots as they frantically argue that a person born with a vulva but with elevated levels of testosterone has to be classed as a man without even once tasting the hypocrisy. Like hey terfs do you see how your worldview is built on quicksand and patriarchy

[penny-anna]

the thing about her having elevated testosterone is actually hearsay. the IBA have confirmed that the gender eligibility test that she failed wasn't a testosterone check so there's no publicly available evidence as to her testosterone levels. it might be that she was found to have XY chromosomes but that's not been reliably confirmed either.

but yes people are now arguing that the only thing that matters for 'biological sex' is your chromosomes even tho literally no biologist in the world would agree with them.

& to avoid reblogging this over & over:

@phoenixcatch7 #Woman who punches people in the face for sport gets punched in the face during said sport#Apparently she's okay though which is good. Do we know anything about her opinion on this or?#My dad was telling me about this before and he showed me a pic like look how tall unfair genetic advantage#And I was like dad. The cis woman is also taller than the male referee in that picture. Cis woman with that height? No one cares#'oh the boxer transitioned because they kept losing in the men's team' I cannot begin to explain how stupid that is NO ONE DOES THAT

in the name of factual accuracy: both women are cisgender. Imane Khelif might be intersex which is not mutually exclusive with being cis. u can tell your dad Algeria has no legal recourse for gender transition lmao!

[dr-falcon-fox-and-coyote]

Not to mention that her boxing record for her entire life is very much open and public information and she never once competed in a mens tournament. She has always fought in the women's tournament. She has lost 9 times to women in the women's tournament. Even if she hadn't, it wouldn't matter.

She is a woman, has always been a woman, and until she decides to become a transman, she will always be a woman.

[lauralot89]

As a reminder, a convicted child rapist is competing in the games, and instead of even pretending to care about that, TERFs are pitching a fit over women boxers punching their opponents

[meduseld]

Two I think very relevant additions:

The Italian boxer, Angela Carini, who lost to Khelif has said she wants to apologize to her as "All this controversy makes me sad [...] I'm sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision." As in everyone white knighting for her can stfu she says she was just sad she lost but wasn't trying to start gender shit and she recognizes that Khelif won fairly.

Yu-ting is an advocate against domestic violence so that people don't have to take up boxing for self-defense (as Yu-ting reportedly did to protect her mother), I know that's the Daily Mail but you would think these TERFS who allegedly are doing this because they care about women's safety would fucking want to support a woman who is doing that?!

This is all bullshit aimed at narrowly defining what a woman is in order to control all women and eliminate trans people from public life bc when you take its trenchcoat off it's all comphet, compcis and patriarchy.

[liesmyth]

regardless of anything else. elite sport isn't about “fairness” lmao. it's about achieving the best possibile results by maximising every resource at your disposal. and hard work and mindset and a sprinkle of good luck. and entertainment also. hope this helps

[liesmyth]

wish we could bottle this “I'm in an uproar over women's sports bc I care soooo much” energy and save it for when the Olympics are over and most of the world are back to not giving a fuck about female athletes

[liesmyth]

#if you read about most successful athletes you'll notice that they have state-of-the-art training facilities trainers dieticians etc #and often come from rich families #also if you look into what sports a country has success in you will notice that that sport gets a lot of funding #fairness doesn't come into it @charlottenewtons

[averyterrible]

everyone under the age of 18 is a minor and should not interact with my blog. anyone over the age of 16 is cringe, and should not interact with my blog. no one should interact with my blog at day or at night, neither inside a house nor outside a house, and by neither man nor beast

[maxknightley]

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[agnesandhilda]

yeah this is a self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence

[amanita-house]

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[everythingfox]

[awesomebutunpractical]

You can have any animal for a pet. Any complications such as “keeping the animal healthy and happy” and “the time and effort it would take to keep happy and healthy pet” and “keeping yourself uneaten” and “the pet I want is kind of extinct” have all been solved perfectly. You don’t have to think of that.

What is your pet?

[us-and-themmm-deactivated201812]

Your phone battery percentage determines what year of the 1900s you'll live in.

How screwed are you?

[dropovers]

[raevenlywrites]

You’ve heard of Apollo’s dodgeball now get ready for Artemis’s sick dunks

[mildelectrocution]

Inspired by Darwyn Cooke's iconic Batman & Robin illustration, and the New Batman Adventures.

[random-fun-polls]

is your hometown famous for anything?

yes, we have a food that's famous

yes, we have a building/establishment that's famous

yes, a famous person is from my hometown

yes, my hometown was featured in a book/show/movie/etc

yes, multiple of these

yes, for something else

no, not that i know of

nuanced answer button

Voting ended onAug 2, 2024

reblog for larger sample size :)

[severalowls]

No song nor poetry can convey tragedy like a cat who wants through a door

[severalowls]