Over time, I think they’re becoming somewhat arbitrary in the sporting world. Having a hard cutoff at (for example) a particular level of testosterone is showing the rickety-ness of the gender constructs as they are used in sports.

I may not have made the point clearly here. My understanding is that the category of “women” as used by IAAF doesn’t overlap super well with the category of “women” as used in other contexts, because they’re fitting a convenient label over what’s actually a vector of a couple of different factors? I think?

I may have some science wrong here, then.

Also, transgender issues are only one of, like, a million basic questions of rules fairness that powerlifting is going to need to deal with as it becomes a more mature and developed sport.

One of the (not the only) ways to look at the reason separate some men’s and women’s sports exist is that there are 2 statistically different populations out there, and that lumping them together would be inherently unfair (or uninteresting, if you prefer) to one population.

This is cool. Shades of Clara Lemlich here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich

shameful where are the editors on this.

For Oriole Jonathan Schoop...

I like how New York is still a 1980's vigilante justice film dystopia in this scenario, somehow.

If Storm Duck doesn’t make it to the finals, I’d like to get the deep-dive into the name regardless. Deal?

Holy shit! We’re on pace for Cleveland Spiders territory here!

WHO’S A GOOD BOY? YOU ARE! WHO’S THE FIRST OF HIS NAME? YOU ARE!

Right? They look alike in every respect except for ones that exist.

Is there a legal liability incurred if a reporter uses “lie” instead of “false claim?” Am I missing something important here?

Goddamn Rogues.

I should probably clarify that I didn’t mean to imply she’s all hat and no cattle. I was being sincere in appreciating the job that her team is doing. Like, if you said to me “Hey we have this talented person, can you coordinate a couple weeks’ worth pf exposure and coverage so she blows up?” I would be forced to…

If Cornell, we are obligated to respond: “Where?”

Me too. That’s a weird phenomenon, you’d think we would have gotten used to it by now.

They’re working on getting a binder big enough to hold him.

Holy shit.

As I get older, things that I found emotionally destroying as a youth tend to lose their sting (to be replaced by new things that I viscerally fear and hate!)

This tweet has now given me immunity to “My Girl.”

Holy shit. I’m still laughing.