Then how would you draw the line between who is allowed to compete in women’s divisions and who isn’t?

Then what should be the test to determine whether someone can compete in women’s divisions?

Accept Phelps isn’t competing in a division that excludes half of the world’s population because they have a genetic advantage. It’s not remotely the same.

No sport probably relies more on genetic advantage than sprinting. You could spend thousands of hours training and it wouldn’t turn someone of average athletic ability into a good sprinter, let alone an elite one. Speed in a trait you are born with, not a skill that you develop.

You are correct that “hermaphrodite” is generally not considered acceptable at this point. However, not all people who are intersex would qualify as hermaphrodites either.

By this standard why should we even have separate categories for female athletics? Men have an athletic advantage, it’s part of evolution.

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Dumb analogy. The right one would be could Usain Bolt compete in the para-olympics. This is only an issue because we have separate categories for women otherwise they would be completely unable to compete.

No one offers a category in which Bolt could compete with lesser competition either. The only reason these rules exist is because women would be virtually nonexistent in the world of elite athletes if they were forced to compete with the natural athletic advantages men have.

Can you read? Her test results leaked. That’s not an allegation.

Yes, clearly believing that Larry Wilmore performed badly at his job of being funny makes me a racist. This is a good opinion. You have good opinions. You should probably look at publishing your opinions, because I feel a lot of people will find them to be very interesting and informative.

Jesus fucking christ, are you serious? The show is the “it” and “it” didn’t perform well largely because of the guy who the whole show was focused on.

People who own stock in Viacom care.

The Nightly Show is doing much worse than The Cobert Report versus the dropoff from the Daily Show with John Stewart to Noah. It’s also started to get beat by @midnight, the show that follows it. It’s just not very popular.

Noah is often too cute with his humor and it doesn’t really fit the tone of the show. Also, he tends to talk about America as something he isn’t really part of, which is weird since it’s primarily about American news. John Oliver is also an immigrant, but tends to frame things like he is part of it.

No, actually that’s exactly what it means. Performance in television is almost solely judged by viewership. Just because you like it doesn’t mean it was performing well.

That’s not just talking about TV ratings and the statement is pretty blatant PR-speak to try and make it seem like the show is doing better than it is. If if was doing better in the ratings they would simply say so. Virtually every other source shows a significant decline in viewers.

No it’s not, the numbers are down significantly.

Like every other athlete that gets busted for PEDs, she’s lying.