I cannot explain why I feel this way, but Storm Duck is the most awesome fucking name in this region.

Gotta keep the outrage machine at Gawker turning!

I am also a frequent NYC-DC train rider and I LOVE IT.

it’s already pointed out here, but i absolutely love using the train for DC-NYC. Acela or regional. It’s more comfortable and, all things considered, even the regional takes just about as much time as a flight when you consider you’re landing at MSG and not LGA.

The irony of your response is outstanding.

Well, of course it’s always been racist. Racing is what this whole debate is about.

The categories “male” and “female” are essentially “open” and “restricted”. No one cares about Phelps’ “attributes” because he was in the “open” category.

“These efforts to “protect” women mean the times they run in mixed-gender competition aren’t considered Olympic qualifying times. In mixed events, women can paced by men who run faster, which could help women outpace their usual times.”

It isn’t an obsession. Allowing men to compete with women will be the end of women’s sports. For all intents and purposes Semenya has the biological makeup of a man. I’m sorry that it isn’t fair for her, but life isn’t fair for a lot of people.

It wasn’t an imperative. It was a statement. I said “I never click external links,” not “Never click external links.”

There is no single aspect of the human anatomy, even at its most natural extreme, that has as much of an impact on ability level in sports than the normal difference between males and females.

When competing against a restricted group of humans, it matters. If Phelps was competing against only women, there would be a lot of problems with that.

“She was born a woman, has lived her life as a women, and has never opted for any hormone altering treatments to boost her testosterone.”

Michael Phelps’s “freakish, weird, and utterly absurd looking body” would not have been allowed if he tried to swim in a “6 ft and under” league.

This is *without question* the most fair way to do this. I am flabbergasted by people thinking she is somehow getting persecuted here. If she was competing against literally everyone, of course there wouldn’t be a problem, but she’s not. She is competing in a restricted division (women’s) with hormone levels that do…

So a quick question that needs to be answered. Why do we segregate sports by sex? If you don’t understand why we do this, then I don’t think anyone should have an opinion on whether or not or even how Caster Semenya, or people like Semenya compete in sports.

As ever in these articles, it seems relevant to mention that Semenya has testes.

THIS is the 2000 Toyota Avalon. That’s right, today I’ll be reviewing a 19-year old large Toyota sedan from the middle of the Boring Era. It’s just like the one your grandparents probably traded in last year. Just kidding - they’re probably still driving it!

I can’t be the only one who’s convinced that that is 20 year old cling film on the display, and I’m triggered that no one has peeled it off yet.

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