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Everyone is too busy talking about the ess to notice the real problem with women's boxing:

An Olympic boxer cried and dropped out of the competition because getting punched hurt.

Should women's boxing even be an event if this is the level of competition that everyone casually accepts?

so is she a "woman" in the same way that runner who naturally impregnated "her" "lesbian" wife with "her" sperm from "her" working balls multiple times?

!transphobes !chuds get in here its another boxing thread

Imane Khelif is a cisgendered woman who passed all of the required testing to prove that identity and compete at this level. She has previously competed without issue (and been eliminated before the medal rounds) in Tokyo 2020. The comments claiming she has a "Y chromosome" are false and her disqualifications came under a corrupt governing body.

I'm sorry for this Italian boxer and her federation who appear to have swallowed this transphobia to the point that they may have incorrectly felt that withdrawing from the match was a reasonable option for her safety (though this is not confirmed as far as I know). This is not fair to either of them and is proof that transphobia and the misinformation it breeds from is harmful to all women in sports at every level.

Link for sources: https://time.com/7006338/imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting-gender-controversy-olympics-women-boxing/

ETA: If you are outraged about this please be aware you are falling for what is clearly a transphobic propaganda campaign designed to advance anti-transgender sentiments which are being used as a political rallying point to strip them of their rights and dignity far beyond athletic participation across the world right now. If you've never given a shit about women's boxing or the distinctions between s*x and gender before this…maybe do some research beyond your twitter feed.

Chud chimps stay losing.

I've watched the Not Like Us music video several times by now, and I get full-body chills EVERY SINGLE TIME this scene begins. I've been thinking a lot about it, and discussing it with friends of mine, and I have a few readings of the caged owl I'd like to share, beyond the obvious illustration of Kendrick putting OVO/Drake in an inescapable, powerless position.

Something that struck me about the owl is its prominent white face and chest. There are obviously numerous kinds of owls out there - not all of them have such notable white features. So this owl in particular was chosen intentionally - as is true with everything Kdot does. No detail is overlooked.

Obviously, Kendrick speaks at length about Drake's being biracial (white/black) in Euphoria - "How many more Black features 'til you finally feel that you Black enough?" This owl is literally "biracial" in a sense - white face/chest, brown feathers on his back - bicolored. So that's a pretty literal signpost that further illustrates the owl = Drake.

Now, another theme that Kendrick goes into at length in the final verse of Not Like Us is colonizers/colonialism. Who among us, in all of history, is the most guilty of violent, uncaring colonialism? White people. Hence the white owl. Kendrick is making a huge statement here - that the script is flipping, culture is changing, and Kendrick is the mastermind behind it. Black and Brown people - and the culture they've created - are no longer the colonized. They are claiming their power and taking it back - they are waking up to the unbelievable injustices they have endured, as a people - and this leads me to my last point.

Ultimately, this beef is not something as simplistic as "oh clearly Kendrick hates Drake." What Kendrick hates is that Drake colonizes Black culture for his own profit/benefit - even though not only is he literally half-white, but he did not come up knowing the Black experience that rap was born out of. From Euphoria: "They imitate heritage, they can't imitate this violence." Kendrick is taking a very powerful stance that, as a people, Black and Brown people will no longer allow their culture to be exploited, appropriated, and profited off of by those who know nothing about the actual experience of existing in the world as a member of that community.

So, the half-white owl in the cage not only represents Drake the person - the owl represents all artists, politicians, corporations, ANYONE who has exploited Black and Brown cultures to their own benefit, while doing nothing to uplift the people and cultures they are stealing from. Kendrick is saying: this is the end of all that. You are now under our thumb. You are trapped. We have taken back our power - and this is only the beginning. This message is particularly powerful when you consider it in the context of the genocide in Gaza, which is an overt current example of the murder, exploitation, and inhumane disregard for Brown people.

One more thing is the somewhat more obvious reference to Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird" - there are a couple of stanzas that really put the final nails in Drake's coffin, and they really ring out in my head as I keep rewatching that final scene from the music video:

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this whole thing is because of trans people and their allies . if these people didn't flat out insist that people who were born men and grew up as men and transitioned when they were 25 by putting on make up be allowed to compete against women this kind of thing wouldn't happen. if s would just acknowledge the biological facts about the differences between men and women and that males competing against females is unfair stuff like this wouldn't happen. WAY TO GO, S. ARE YOU HAPPY THAT ACTUAL WOMEN ARE GETTING ABUSED BECAUSE OF YOU?

don't answer that. everyone knows you deeply hate women.

Why shouldn't she be able to compete? The "s*x test" and "chromosomal differences" have long been a point of contention in sports. Footballers and those in athletics have always had a hard time proving their "femininity" to the world. Should she be penalized for being hard on her opponent? Absolutely! But the raging comments that are tearing into her are absurd and simply sexist.

I want all Redditors to be beaten to a pulp by a proud XY Algerian woman

What a sore loser

I am a social construct, not an actual person

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