Between Henson and Spencer, I’m sure this film will be a pleasure to watch. In addition, the existance of the movie will serve as a nice reply to bigots who insist that white men (and only white men) put a man on the moon. Winning the space race took a team effort, it’s time we met hidden members of the team.

What is truly frightening is that these sexist and racist headlines and comments are not made to be intentionally malicious. Most people, even if they are internal scumbag bigots, will closet their demons for their professions. Nobody WANTS to be on the wrong end of these and having to make apologies and retractions.…

Olympics: Simone Manuel shares historic night with some white guy.

here’s what gets me - phelps body has been studied scientifically - they proved his proportions actually propel him faster than bodies set up differently, even relative to his peers. He has a clear advantage because of his biological make up, so tell me why a person who presents as female should be held under greater…

This gender test thing is horrible particularly because it disproportionately targets women and women of color

I saw Katie ledecky levitate a goose behind goody parsons barn! I saw it!

Okay, so lack of access to prenatal care means less health care for both mothers and babies. Which means that preventable health issues are not prevented and non-preventable issues are not managed to make them, you know, less deadly.

I am not a scientist, but I am pretty sure “HIV in the water” is not a thing.

On the one hand, there are certain physiques that are more suited to certain activities than others. There’s been all this talk about how Phelp’s winspan being so much significantly longer than his height. And physique is genetic, so it is fully possible that certain genetic backgrounds could have physiques suited to…

Also, black people have specifically been discriminated against at public and community pools for decades. Just look at the police officer that got away with assaulting a 14 year old black girl for being black at a pool party. Black people can swim, no problem, it’s just I have never seen any documented cases of white…

Me and my Maryland colleagues were talking about how and why Maryland dominates swimming so much. “She’s from Bethesda! He’s from Baltimore!” “Yeah, but they’re also from affluent neighborhoods in these areas with access to lots of disposable income to invest in training. The entirety of Bethesda is suuuuper…

Awesome. :)

This is SO AWESOME. Just yesterday I was wondering about the lack of black swimmers in the Olympics, and an acquaintance (who I plan to avoid from now on) explained to me that black people just can’t swim well, because like body proportions yada yada bullshit. She GENUINELY believes this. OH GOD THE RAGE FIT I HAD.…

This was so wonderful to watch, especially the interview afterwards, where she was clearly so overcome with emotion. One thing that really got to me though was how NBC kept calling her the first African-American to win an olympic swimming gold. While that’s technically also true, they obviously meant first black woman…

watching women athletes fucking killing it makes me weepy everytime.

/adds “Simone” to future baby daughter potential name list

Couldn’t find that, but how about this?

After his little display of banging on the dock, shouting sieg heil, making a nazi salute, and then singing some kind of fascist song she said ‘We’re all very impressed. Take him down.’ (Take him down meaning take him back to the cells btw) Which is the most dead pan and condescending response possible and makes him…

Meanwhile, on the other side of the pool...