FWIW, if anyone at G/O is listening.... You ain’t kidding when you say general Kinja problem.... I find the image tool works first try about 50% of the time. Often, when I use the tool, paste the URL, and click submit, nothing happens. I have to do it two or three times before the image will finally show. So I…

No one ever formed a union because they wanted to make less money and have less job security. Your boss keeps you around because the value you produce is more than what he pays you, a union just helps ensure that gap is smaller. 

Give me a break. The Semenya situation has nothing to do with race. That should be obvious since all the other dominant athletes in her sport are also black. Unless you think they’re racist against Semenya, but not against 2nd place finisher Francine Niyonsaba (Burndi) or 3rd place Margaret Wambui (Kenya). Or the…

I’m already planning on posting this picture to all of his tweets from now on until I get blocked. Then I will brag about being blocked by him.

At the top of a beanstalk. Also they are required to add “FOFUM” to the end of their name.

Take a look at the times they posted. It wouldn’t be close. The mistake being made is assuming that women would be competitive at an international level against men.

This is the correct take. This whole Deadspin crusade for Caster has been stupid from the beginning. They make no effort whatsoever to explore the complicated nuance behind such decisions, and instead paint Caster only as a tortured martyr.

“Phelps has never swam against women. For all we know they could beat him.”

Caster Semenya Won’t Be Allowed To Defend Her 800-Meter Title At The World Championships

And if you think Semenya is the first woman ever to have naturally elevated testosterone and compete in pro sports, I have a bridge in the Hudson river I would like to sell you.

My god, this whole ‘it’s because she’s black’ thing is getting out of hand.

You will never be able to convince me that this targeted attack on her isn’t racially motivated because Phelps’s natural gifts are well published and no one expects him to give up his medals.

I think that it is pretty clear that being a woman in terms of competing in elite professional sports is not the same thing as just being a woman. We have a separate category for women because of Y-chromosomes and testosterone. Without that, we don’t have women in elite sport.

I’ve read all of Diana’s writing on the issue. She makes many good points. This entire saga has been clearly targeted at Semenya, because of her androgynous appearance, and perhaps also because of her skin color. The data the IAAF came up with to try to justify the rule is flawed and inaccurate. The entire history of…

If you want me or anyone else that is reading to be aware of specifics pointed out by some other reporter, feel free to share them. I’ve read everything deadspin has published on this matter, so I’d be very surprised if it changed my mind but I’d be happy to try to understand whatever it is that makes you think what…

Watch out. Dennis is ranked world no. 3 in virtue signaling, soon to be an Olympic gymnastics event—the first ever gymnastics event in which judges will not be allowed.

“Cis females are powerful enough to get a niche carved for themselves in sport, intersex and trans females aren’t.”

It seems like Deadspin is analyzing the situation from a social rights perspective. But that’s not the job of these governing bodies, which I guess is to make decisions based on their interpretation of the rules or the spirit of competition. I don’t think Deadspin considers what is intended by the division of men’s…

I can’t tell if you’re agreeing or not, but women have competed with men when they were good enough to do so. It’s rare because of how much a physical advantage males have over females genetically. I promise you, if Alex Morgan were good enough to play with the USMNT and wanted to, they would allow it.

This stupid thing is said *every* time here and it’s still wrong. Phelps is competing against literally everyone. Semenya is competing against a subset limited to women, while possessing a significant advantage of having male testosterone.