HAH, women’s ski jumping wasn’t added until 2014 and the head of the International Ski Federation had the SAME REASON it shouldn’t be allowed. That landing would cause a woman’s baby-making facilities to just plumb drop out.

The Spartans knew better, millenia ago. But pseudo-science-based misogyny springs eternal.

In the middle of the race, Semple tried to shove Switzer and physically pull her out. “He was pulling at me and screaming, ‘Get the hell out of my race and give me that number,’” Switzer told Deadspin in 2015. “Arnie was screaming at Jock, and then Tom smashed Jock out of the way.”

Also: “Dad loves to take us out in our Dress-Alikes”

He could name his kid Spatula Mousepad and I’d be like, “I’ll allow it.”

One of the more interesting aspects of getting old is that what used to be common knowlage in your youth isn’t any longer, despite the younger generation’s greater access to information. Especially when it comes to pop culture. When I was young, everyone knew John Lennon was a deeply troubled man with a wide nasty…

#teamsit

Oh, the best part is the “redesigned” sexual harassment, uh um, excuse me, “workplace harassment” training that they made us take in the DOI after the Grand Canyon stuff hit the fan last year. It’s complete bullshit and shows role-playing scenes where an equal amount of men and women are playing the role of harasser.…

I’m looking.

I wish I was surprised that one of the first comments on a FGM article was about the damage done to penises, but I’m not.

It’s implematic of how disregarded women are that we can’t even discuss an article about CIS female gender mutilation without, but, ... but, the PENIS.

Except they’re doing it in Egypt to stop their daughters from becoming whores who men from good families won’t marry. So no, we do not look at circumcision and female genital mutilation the same. They are done for completely different reasons.

You might be a woman but you still retain your pre-transition level of male entitlement and desire to mansplain to others about stuff you don’t understand. When you are born with a vagina and it is cut away as a child and sewn shut and infected then you can talk.

Let me reiterate, go fuck yourself. And you don’t give a shit about women and you don’t get to decide what hurts us and what doesn’t.

I have never seen a thread anywhere about FGM that doesn’t end up swamped with men talking about male circumcision and how convinced they are that their lives have been ruined by it.

No, amputating a girl’s labia isn’t “kinda close” to a male circumcision, an arguably outdated but still minor procedure developed by men to reduce men’s vulnerability to STDs and skin diseases prior to antibiotics and modern hygiene. What a disgusting thing to say. Own your privilege as someone assigned male at birth…

You’re right, it shouldn’t be treated as a contest. Which is why when people chime in with “whataboutthis” on every single FGM article that ever existed, they should be righteously told the shut the fuck up and take a seat.

Circumcision doesn’t have anything to do with this. There is absolutely no reason why women can’t have a fucking conversation without being drowned out by men. I am so tired of it that I honestly don’t know what to do.

Not even close, but white guys just want to feel like victims too! Anti-circumcision guys are really, shall we say, passionate, about their cause, so are often much more vocal.

I just read about this story in the Washington Post, and whaddya know, the comment section is full of idiot menz shouting “WHY DOES THIS ONLY GET ATTENTION WHEN IT’S GIRLS? WHAT ABOUT THE FORESKIN?”