Sure. I’m not saying that she isn’t several standard deviations above them.

Dr. Manhattan was inside us, all along.

Maybe you or others (or I) disagree with the line is being drawn, but there still needs to be a line.

Yeah, I mean, we’re definitely handicapped in the process of applying labels to people in sports, by the idea that there’s “supposed to” be a bright line between man and woman, in terms of the social construct of gender, but then it gets all squirrelly in the real world.

Great question. I think it’s dumb to single her out because I don’t think her condition is something that should inherently disqualify her. It does make her very good, and possibly unbeatable, in the context of her competition, but it’s not clear to me that that’s a problem that needs to be fixed, or that a targeted…

I think I’ve heard that too. But what would the suspicion be here? Like, is she suspected of something particularly?

That’s true as well though I’m not an expert on the WR marks or when/how they were set. She’s good, but some of it is that she’s good in context of the current field, I guess?

That’s pretty much what I’m saying. Maybe it didn’t come across. I agree that it’s dumb to single her out.

This looks good, thanks. Looking forward to reading.

Really glad to see you writing on this! Was keeping an eye out for you in this latest round of news. I’m in the camp that she should be allowed to run, but I do think there is some (some) overlap with the weight class argument in terms of being able to group competitors together who might not otherwise have a…

We called it the Back-back. It was awesome. And, in retrospect, pretty damn dangerous.

I agree with about half of your comment! Camden Yards is a deeply pleasurable experience, made even moreso by the fact that tickets are, at most, $15. BUT - as a witness of the “Free the Birds”-era protests, there is still an element of shame in giving my fiscal approbation to the absolutely hideous product they’re…

“Apparently they may kill Kinja too.”

They haven’t actually given him a paycheck in 14 months. He just shows up and does his thing every day regardless of what’s going on, like a ghost cat that remembers the layout of its old house.

Me, a couple years ago: “Man, io9, Deadspin and the A.V. Club are my 3 go-to sites for work-day time wasting. I sure am glad they’re on stable footing and can’t possibly be destroyed by a one-two punch of Kinja and corporate fuckery.”

Me, now: “Welp. 1 out of 3 ain’t bad I guess.”

At this point in these hopelessly terrible Orioles’ season, if he’s sitting in the front row in the bottom of the first, you can bet he bought nosebleed tickets and never went to his actual seat.

Truth. And greetings, either fellow O’s fan or current Braves fan(?).

The worst part of this experience is that there’s now incontrovertible video proof that he attended an O’s game.

He kisses EVERYBODY’s mother with that mouth.

Hey homie,