Profiles in chickenshit
Bros before hos, I guess.
Of course I don’t. Nobody does. That’s not “courage,” it’s triumphant cheating. It’s a man cheating women, and courage is not the quality it requires. Narcissism and entitlement, yes, courage, no. Utter contempt for women, yes, courage, no.
David Bradford is the fitness editor for Cycling Weekly. Men helping other men cheat women in sports: what a picture.
Updating: Forgot his follow-up.
What has the reaction been? Anger at his flattery of Bridges’s “courage,” of course, from women pointing out that Bridges’s “courage” is actually his effrontery in cheating women in their own sport. He simply brushes that off as if it means absolutely nothing, and admires the cheater’s “courage” even more.
It’s astonishing.
Yeah, “X ought be admired for doing Y,” only holds true if X has actually, ya know, done Y. So let’s say Y=”setting the record straight”. This phrase generally doesn’t mean saying just anything. Even giving the benefit of the doubt, setting the record straight requires more than mere honesty; it demands correctness. The whole point of the disagreement is over whether the trans “inclusive” account is correct. Of course those on the other side (the sane side) will disagree that Bridges is setting the record straight. One would have to be an absolute twit to expect that pretending to be above the fray like this would get one anything but a lambasting.
And once again acting like the disagreement with him is some sort of threatening (though he only implies it, he doesn’t say it out). I wonder how many of Emily Bridge’s “threats of physical violence” are from women saying “but you’re a man”. In this site, when you talk about physical threats to Stock or Rowling or Bindel, you show them to us. We see the threats. We know what they say. I haven’t seen too many (if any) trans advocates doing this. Is it possible they are aware most people won’t find saying “men can’t be women” to be threatening? Most people will just see it as a banal, everyday thing they’ve known since they were three.
Bet he admires those brave courtiers who persist in praising the Emperor’s new clothes despite the laughing and pointing.
It was also a disgracefully wasted opportunity to say “…you really have to admire Emily Bridges’ balls.”