From a very great height
Who is this idiot and how does she get anyone to publish her idiotic drivel?
[Imane] Khelif’s crime – in the eyes and relentless social media feeds of the “let us tell you how women should look, act, reproduce, breathe and exist on this earth” brigade – lies in choosing not to portray herself as an aspirational Sports Illustrated swimsuit model when her job as a professional athlete is, literally, to punch other people in the face.
Could not be more wrong.
The reality is that it’s Imane Khelif and his enablers who are shitting on every single female athlete at the Olympics. Yes, Khelif is a boxer, and his job at the Olympics is to box, but it’s not to box with women. If you can’t make your case without stupid blatant lies then your case must not be much good.
There’s an online community of “transvestigators” who spend their days with Adobe Photoshop filters and an alarmingly fragile sense of personal identity determining every prominent woman who takes her work seriously must secretly be a man, lest the confections of gender that they cling to collapse in the face of, um, concrete evidence to the contrary.
Liar. It’s the other way around. It’s the people who pretend men can be women who are relentlessly stealing women’s achievements and handing them over to men. People like you, you trendy dishonest rat.
Don’t be fooled by their rhetoric into thinking that Khelif terrifies because of her height or strength. It’s taking the sport of boxing seriously enough to pop her opponent’s nose rather than flailing about like a hapless doily in a boxer costume that’s the issue.
Oh dear god – can it get any more disgusting? She’s rejoicing in the fact that Khelif hit a woman’s nose so hard that she withdrew from the match for her own safety. He didn’t “pop her” in the nose, he punched her in the nose with the force of a man, because he’s a man.
Beneath contempt. Her name is Van Badham, in case you want to avoid her in future.
Wait. Isn’t this what the genderists do, retroactively transing powerful women of the past like Hatshepsut and Joan of Arc, because they adorned themselves with the trappings of male power?
Exactly.
‘flailing about like a hapless doily in a boxer costume’ I take it that’s how she believes Olympic-level female boxers compete. Nice.
Patronising, straw-man-knocking, drivel.
What I find most frustrating is that so many in the media, of both sexes, are so invested in the righteousness of their pet, man-worshipping, putatively left-wing cause that they are STILL refusing to acknowledge any arguments from women. They are demonising the sexist views common to a small portion of traditionally right-wing men, and pretending that those are the only people objecting to the cheating. I have encountered not one single person making that assertion; everybody, both sexes, from every walk of life, and with views across the political spectrum, is objecting to the fact of a male boxer assaulting women boxer. They couldn’t care less how any man ‘identifies’, as long as they all stay out of women’s sports. Grrrrrrr.
I’m happy to say I’ve been avoiding Van Badham for a long time. I think I read two or three of her columns before realising I was dealing with Laurie Penny/Owen Jones level nonsense. I think the Guardian has a drivelbot production facility somewhere. I’m just embarrassed that they decided to make this model Australian.
For many years I followed Van Badham. She wrote a good book “QAnon and On”, an excellent primer for those unaware of the phenomenon. Some of her social commentary and her critiques of late stage capitalism were spot on.
But, as a former University Women’s Officer and a self declared feminist, she is a liar and a charlatan, willingly throwing women under the bus to gain love and admiration from the cocks in frocks crowd.
It took a single reply from me to one her her misogynistic tweets to have her drop the ban hammer because she is perfect and must be immune from hearing contrary views.
If we were ever in the same room, I would spit on her shoes.
“a drivelbot production facility” – that’s very good.