I was thinking about that listening to NPR this morning. I’m a man without kids, but I imagine if I had a daughter, if anyone found out I talked to my daughter about masturbation, I’d get the cops called on me. Because obviously I must be a predator to talk to my own children about sex and masturbation.

Which sounds like a big problem for society, but isn’t a problem for the insurance companies.

More people die of HIV and AIDS? Not their problem! They’re private corporations driven purely by a profit motive. It’s a feature of the system, not a bug.

I mean... you said it at the end.

Is that a portrait of Michelle when she was 20 or, who tf is that a portrait of?

Honestly, watch their legs as they go down the ice, sweeping as hard as they can. I get out of breath just watching them. They have one shoe with rubber for grip and the other with leather to slip. And they somehow manage to balance on both. I’d fall over instantly!

No, white people who throw tantrums because they’re not honored like they feel they should are called cry babies and privileged and to “shut up”.

So should Michael Phelps forever and always carry the flag for the Summer games? He is more decorated.

Or maybe... there’s more factors than just who has the most medals.

It’s also her 4th Olympic games.

Erin Mullady Hamlin is a four-time Olympian and the first female American luger to medal at any Winter Olympics, as well as the first American of either gender to medal in singles competition

Thanks.

HamFam didn’t have many spoilers. They just lost everything. Looking forward to Men’s/Women’s Curling.

Exactly! I don’t expect them to show 3 hours of Curling on NBC Sports. But I have no idea why... when I go to US Olympics, or any other website that hosts/films the Olympics themselves, and search “Curling”, I get a bunch of 2 minute videos that say “US Loses to Switzerland” and gives me the highlights. Like... fuck…

I love Curling, and I love watching Curling because you can sort of relax, and watch the slow boil of a 2-3 hour chess match. It was nearly impossible to find full clips of the matches. Even the Olympics website just shows a 2-3 minute clip of a 2-3 hour match with a few shots.

The Olympics are a tournament. There’s a…

ugh... Yeah, it’s 3 too many. It’s also 1,100 too many (total number of Americans murdered in January). We could stop the presses and focus the national attention on 3 people, but it’s worth asking whether... given normal conditions... you’d expect 3 trans women to be coincidentally killed as a part of the US…

They’re not your community. You’ve shown you have no compassion for the real problems trans people face. You’re more interested in trying to look right on the internet.

You are deeply misguided are do more damage than good to the causes you believe in.

So you’re just gonna ignore all the points I made. Got it. You’re rebuttals are deeply stupid and rooted in a really misguided idea of normal.

The murder rate of women overall is exceptionally low. Transwomen saying that because their murder rate is higher than women, it’s too high, is like Southern Republican White…

Ok, yeah. The Miami Archsiocese has sent shills to come on SplinterNews to fight for their reputation. OR! Someone doesn’t agree with you.

Trans women should be compared to the total population, not just women. Because when you compare ANY group’s fatal victim rate to women, it seems extremely high, even if it’s not actually high.

Here. lemme show you why base rates are bad.

Trans women are 4x more likely to be killed than women.

However, men are 5x more…

Look, I see that point of view. But if it’s the case that trans people are murdered at or below the national rate, then it gets weird to say it’s a travesty and must be stopped. It’s like 90% of drug arrests are of young black men, and someone posting a headline “80 White College students arrested for Marijuana…

I don’t see how it’s spurious. I decided since PoC were playing such a large role in the talking points around trans murder rates, that it might be interesting to see how it compares to the PoC population at large.

I also felt I had to make a point about comparatives since saying that trans women are 4 times as likely…