Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Flying Bats FC won every match.

[T]he Flying Bats FC stand strongly for inclusion, and pride ourselves on safe, respectful and fair play, the promotion of a supportive community for LGBTQIA+ players, officials and supporters, and the significant physical, social and mental health benefits that participation in sport brings, especially to marginalised members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

You can “pride yourselves” on your so-called virtues all you want, but every one of those virtues has an inversion. It reminds me of Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer,” in which a man stumbled into the church and preached the ugliness of blight, death, injury, and pain to be inflicted on the enemy and all their friends and relations, as a result of the patriotic prayer for victory that is usually seen as pure and sacred in normal pious sermons.

Flying Bats “stands strongly” for “inclusion,” by excluding lesbian women from their very own team. They “pride themselves” on “safe” play, by making play extremely UNsafe for all their opponents, and even the actual women who play for the Flying Bats. They tout themselves for “respectful” play by utterly trashing and disrespecting and insulting and undermining and destroying the rights every actual woman in any match or league or tournament in which they play. They brag about their “fair play,” while personifying lying and cheating. They claim to be “supportive” of “LGBTQIA+” players, officials, and fans, while denigrating the “LGB” cohort of the forced-teamed coalition — which they have piggybacked and parasited on, hollowing out and consuming the work of the LGB community, to leave the husk of a former civil rights movement as a dead casualty — and ignoring every non-male TQIA+ person. Their support is ever and only in favor of the men, against women. As to “the significant physical, social and mental health benefits that participation in sport brings,” those benefits are the same for the men, even when they play on men’s teams. However, they are insistent on denying those very same benefits to every woman who otherwise would be playing on this women’s team — this “lesbian” team — and to every woman on any opposing team. The women on opposing teams lose any chance to play fairly, respectfully, or safely. The “Flying Bats” might have to have a new logo or mascot: a pink-and-blue barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat. That’s some “Flying Bats,” all right. Either that, or change the name to “Team Misogyny FC.” It’d be more truthful.