The issue here is that Semenya’s testosterone levels are beyond that 10 nmol/L...which is already significantly beyond what the “average” woman’s levels are, even a woman with PCOS. Semenya also had internal testes and was (if I remember correctly) XY. She was raised female based on her external genitalia. Her…

I have PCOS and, thus, higher androgen levels than the average woman.

I think this tweet puts it better than I did:

Last week I posted a personal accomplishment of finally opening an Etsy shop for my little cross stitch hobby.

Good shade requires some air of mystery—make us do a bit of work. When I witness shade, I want to fling my wrist against my chest and whisper: “Did she just?” And then I want my nearest girlfriend to chime in: “YES GIRL.”

This is me right now.

KARA Welcome back :)))

Maybe you should consider being a Shade Consultant rather than a Shade Judge.

The fact that companies are in the business of imprisoning people and generating enough profit to be traded publicly on the stock market is disgusting. Corrections should not be a for profit business venture, ever.

As always, it took a journalist going undercover for the government to get embarrassed enough to actually address what had been going on all the time.

Fucking finally.

failed to hand the baton to English Gardner.’

Making this about Schumer definitely falls into the “eating our own” problem a lot of internet feminism can have. So much energy goes into policing the mostly good who are not perfect, versus focusing on garbage like Metzger.

Yeah, anybody can block anybody on Twitter. If the first I hear of you as a person is you up in my @s yelling at me about something (at the same time that THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALSO YELLING AT ME IN MY @S) I would feel no compunction blocking you, and fuck anyone who tells me I am obligated to patiently let…

Can we not blame Amy Schumer for the assholery of men she may have employed/known? Let’s stay focused on the true jerks who deserve our anger.

At least it wasn’t Jimmy Jane?

That’s not a joke, it’s her describing the hyperbolic sex act known as the “Houdini”. She didn’t make it up. It’s obviously not a practical sex act for any number of reasons both logistical and ethical, but it’s not like she “made a joke” it was part of a larger bit on outrageous sex acts.

“It’s no surprise that companies are adapting at different rates to a market where they compete for business on cost and quality rather than by denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions.”