Girls, form a human shield around Lia
Glinner has a transcript as well as a backup of the video.
A couple more excerpts:
The Ivy League released their statement literally dripping with sexism. I quote “the Ivy League releases the following statement of support regarding Penn’s Lia Thomas’s participation on the women’s swimming and diving team. Over the past several years, Lia and the University of Pennsylvania have worked with the NCAA to follow all the appropriate protocols in order to comply with the NCAA policy on transgender athlete participation and compete on the Penn women’s swimming and diving team. The Ivy League has adopted and applies the same NCAA policy. The Ivy League reaffirms its unwavering commitment to providing an inclusive environment for all student athletes while condemning transphobia and discrimination in any form. The League welcomes her participation in the sport of women’s swimming and diving and looks forward to celebrating the success of all of our student athletes throughout the season.”
It sounds so right-on, so solidarity fist in the air, doesn’t it – “The Ivy League reaffirms its unwavering commitment to providing an inclusive environment” – but of course it isn’t. The Ivy League is providing a non-inclusive environment: it’s excluding women. The man Lia Thomas is occupying a woman’s place on the team, and he’s stealing wins that would have been women’s. That’s not “inclusive.” Nor is it celebrating the success of all its student athletes, since it’s allowing a man to take that success away from a woman. The Ivy League is just blatantly lying by saying it’s committed to inclusivity for all.
Mandatory meetings were called with scripts read off by coaches from the athletic department or in some cases handed out. The girls, already caught off guard and intimidated but upset, were now silenced. They were manipulated, coerced and emotionally blackmailed. They were told their leagues and their schools had spoken and made their positions clear. They as athletes had made the decisions to be a part of these schools and this league and they needed to support it. They were told if they had opinions, or were asked to speak, they had to clear it through their coaches and their athletic department leaders. This was also of course for their own protection as no one wants their team slung through the mud. Finally, they were told their first priority needed to be the safety and protection of their trans classmates who are being thrust into the media. Any harm or damage that befell their classmates due to expressing opinions that might not support them would be their responsibility.
Breathtaking. Move over; resign yourself to being bumped down a notch by a man who claims to be a woman; shut your damn mouth about it; if anything bad happens to the man it’s your fault.
How do these people live with themselves? I’ll never understand it.
Maybe, OB, that is an assumption too far. The word ‘people’ implies membership of the species Homo sapiens.
But what if they are members of that loathsome horde Homo bureaucratus, notorious for their stubborn refusal to listen to reason, and whose distinctive mental feature is the finding of some printed justification in some rule book or obcure piece of legislation that enables them to stick to what they see as the easiest course for them? And maybe get themselves featured on the 7 o’clock news for their five minutes of fame?
That could explain this whole godawful situation.! More research is clearly required.
“This was also of course for their own protection as no one wants their team slung through the mud.” Citation needed, as they say. I imagine someone wanting to issue strong, blunt criticism of her team is not going to be terribly upset at other people doing similarly; might even welcome it.
How do they live with themselves? That’s easy.
Read it again. Every single time you see a reference to Lia assume he’s a scared young black woman, or Jewish, or a lesbian, or poor, and all these parents and girls suddenly go from victims to bullies. This is civil rights all over again, an opportunity to step back into history and BE the supportive, enlightened person you just know you would have been back then.
It’s part buying into propaganda (“this is just like gay rights”) and part fantasy wish fulfillment (“No SIR — Rosa Parks will sit wherever she damn well wants or you’ll have ME / MY organization to deal with!”)
They think they’re the good guys and these snippy mean girls & their Karen mothers are funny thinking it’s the other way around.
@Sastra
Thanks for that comment. Somehow, it was the thing I missed to understand why people are so willing to gaslight themselves and others and to overlook obvious and glaring inconsistencies. ‘Alternatie history wish fulfilment”.
@Sastra – that’s very well put. The self-stroking fantasy enacted as propaganda. Cf the de-Nazifying Putin and the cheerleaders who imagine themselves as the strong, ruthless leader.
It is an act of unparalleled oppression for the Ivy League to refuse to allow persons to participate in athletic competition while carrying a crowbar. Attempts to insure an equal playing field among competitors are an example of racist oppression. No matter what the sport, whoever manages to gain an unsurmountable advantage must be allowed to dominate his (oops, her) opponents, because force is what athletics is all about. Of course, only male competitors in women’s athletic events should be allowed to equip themselves with crowbars, because girls are weak and deserve to lose. Argue with that logic, libtard.