Wait, so if you’re a coach and you’re able to challenge a goal by the other team, you’re not going to exercise that option? Feel free to dispute whether or not they should have that option available, but a coach who lets stand an opposing goal that they have a legitimate case to challenge isn’t going to be a coach for…

Patrick mentioned one of the things I noticed at the first Deadspin Awards; Marchman was sitting down at a table while still wearing a messenger bag, as though he may bolt for the door at any minute. It was fuckin’ sick.

I am. It’s been 60 bucks for at least 10-15 years. A price update, in theory, could solve so many problems (developer burnout, microtransactions in AAAs, etc.)

That’d be shocking news for the majority of the Deadspin comments section. :(

The use of the term hermaphrodite as though it’s a medical term, and also saying that Semenya has been confirmed to be intersex. There are other issues I have with the logic thereafter but those are the flat out incorrect things, which serve as the basis for the argument.

You’re throwing a lot of things as facts about her biology that are either untrue, unproven or actually disproven. You’re either not following this story closely enough, or you’re choosing to be ignorant.

I doubt the lawyers had anything to do with the creation of these Very Real And Not At All Fake texts. For a lawyer to fabricate evidence of their client’s behalf is a legit-ass crime. The lawyers sure as shit know that these texts were fake and are going with it, but they probably didn’t have anything to do with…

Can you imagine Shield Gen plus GOATS though? Once we got Brig and now Baptiste to a lesser extent, it would force the team to kill multiple little objects before you can even hope to fight the heroes.

You state that males are tested for T as if it’s being tested for the same thing, though. They’re being tested for things that alter their natural biology, which is the exact opposite of what’s going on here. In the case of men’s tests for T, there’s no upper limit, so long as the athletes aren’t taking substances to…

This is interesting, thanks so much for sharing. It’s with the understanding that she’s XY (I’m choosing to use she/her based on her gender identity but realize that we’re also talking about biology and those are potentially different), I have no idea why they’re not making that part of the decision way louder. It…

I don’t know much about the production of these sorts of events, but if anyone here does: do these kinds of performances get produced in less than 2 weeks? Feels like it may have been in development for longer.

I do want women’s sports, and all women should be allowed to participate. I haven’t seen the science to suggest that testosterone is the defining characteristic of who is and is not a woman. You’ve referenced the chromosomes, so that may be a good line, but I’m not a biologist so there may be a better one.

You’re contesting (or defending those contest, I don’t want to put words in your mouth) that testosterone is the defining factor of what is biologically female, but also the indicator of an athletic advantage. The research cited by the IAAF itself only suggests that 7 out of every 1000 elite female athletes have…

Please, there was a rumor in from 10 years ago that she has internal testes, and has never been confirmed. There is plenty of room for nuance in this discussion, but let’s not start from such a flawed place.

To clarify, you’re saying the the long-arm vs. short-arm difference is akin to the men’s vs. the women’s divisions? The underpinning of your point then is that she’s not a woman, of which there’s never been any evidence. If that is not your point, I apologize. 

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I have no puns or jokes to add to this one.  I’ve been following this for the last few years, hoping that rational thought and human decency would win out.  It did not.  This is fucked.

I don’t particularly care about the Avengers, as I’ve not seen any MCU movies yet, but isn’t this a movie that people had to buy advance tickets for and so it’d be impossible for even the biggest fans to all see in the first couple days?

I hate that I’m taking this trash-ass take out of the greys, but fuck it:

That was largely my point. You’re being sarcastic as if it’s not the truth when it actually, it really is a racist ass city. To be fair, there aren’t many diverse cities that don’t have histories of racism. It’s almost as if human beings aren’t that great!