Posted on 10/20/2015 7:19:05 PM PDT by markomalley
Salon is scared of a girl. Okay, I’m scared of this girl too, but for a completely different reason. According to Salon, though Rousey is a woman and has become one of the most dominant athletes in any sports, male or female, she shouldn’t automatically be considered a role model on that basis. Because…wait for it…transphobia:
**WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE**
“While Rousey is all people say she is (and more) athletically, outside of martial feats, her role model status is questionable. First, Rousey has a history of highly transphobic remarks and flat-out ignorance when it comes to trans athletes. In 2013, when UFC fighter Matt Mitrione made offensive comments about transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, calling her a “lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak,” the New York Post asked Rousey for her thoughts on Mitrione’s words. Rousey said he expressed himself “extremely poorly” and that she could “understand the UFC doesn’t want to be associated with views like that.” But in that same interview, Rousey didn’t exactly demonstrate a predilection for sensitivity. “She can try hormones, chop her pecker off, but it’s still the same bone structure a man has,” Rousey said about Fox. “What if she became UFC champion and we had a transgender women’s champion? It’s a very socially difficult situation.”
It’s only a “socially difficult” situation thanks to people like Rousey. Earlier this year, Rousey tried softening her words — though not changing her opinion — in an interview with the Huffington Post. “From what I’ve read, it seems if like you’ve already gone through puberty as a man, even if you really want to rid yourself of those physical advantages, I just don’t think science is there yet.”
Rousey studied the wrong “science,” because claims of supposed transgender superiority in athletics are categorically false and have zero scientific backing.”
Zero scientific backing of transgender superiority you say? Okay, well let’s ask someone who has actually felt the power of a female fighter and a transgender fighter, and see what they say.
Here’s what MMA fighter Tamikka Brents had to say after suffering a fractured orbital socket and a concussion at the hands of transgender fighter Fallon Fox:
“I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right,” she stated. “Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch…
“I still disagree with Fox fighting,” Brents stated. “Any other job or career I say have a go at it, but when it comes to a combat sport I think it just isn’t fair. At least not until we have more scientific proof that it is or isn’t fair. More research is needed for sure. Like I said, I am not a doctor, I can only say my opinion and I don’t believe that she should be allowed to fight other women. If it were strictly BJJ or wrestling or something like that sure, but MMA is a completely different sport.”
Hmm. Could it be that “his grip was different” because his gender was different? Apparently concussions and fractured orbital sockets aren’t science.
But that’s not the only thing that bothers Salon:
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“But her insensitive musings go beyond transmisogyny and transphobia. This summer, Rousey decried what she called a “do-nothing b*tch”:
“I have this one term for the kind of woman that my mother raised me to not be and I call it a ‘do-nothing b*tch.’ The kind of chick that just, like, tries to be pretty and be taken care of by somebody else. That’s why I think it’s hilarious, like, that people like say that my body looks masculine or something like that. I’m just like, listen, just because my body was developed for a purpose other than f*cking millionaires doesn’t mean it’s masculine. I think it’s femininely badass as f*ck. Because there’s not a single muscle on my body that isn’t for a purpose. Because I’m not a do-nothing b*tch.
Being proud of your body is great. Burying other women because they have a different body than yours is not. As Alanna Vagianos noted in the Huffington Post, Rousey’s DNB speech is “certainly not empowering, and it certainly does nothing to combat the large issues that create a society where athletic bodies like Rousey’s are judged as less than.”
Wha? I thought libs didn’t want women to just “try and be pretty, to be taken care of by somebody else?” I thought libs wanted women to be self-sufficient, with an identity that wasn’t dependent on a man? Has their anger and rage at Ronda Rousey’s refusal to kiss the transgender ring contorted them into a rear-naked choke of stupid? To the point where they’re actually contradicting their own feminist talking points in order to shame her into wearing their militant feminist crown?
Yep.
I love this girl. And I’m a girl.
we trans phobics have to stick together...../
Ronda Rousey should be Donald Trump’s running mate.
(Yes, I know she doesn’t want to vote for him, but maybe she would run with him :D)
The thing is that the most famous transgender athlete in the world, Renee Richards later said she regretted her tennis career and thought being biologically a man gave her an unfair advantage over the women she played against.
But then what would Renee Richards know?
I could take her
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TO BED....
If women can’t back each other up and refuse to participate in this insanity they only have themselves to blame.
Rousey is right!
The truth, is the truth. Even when packaged and delivered in ways Salon finds offensive (and what, that it doesn’t agree with, does it not find offensive?) it is still the truth.
OK, thanks for posting this. I do like this woman Rousey more now, and I still have issues with women beating the cr*p out of each other, but I appreciate this posting.
you mean a guy on hormones and with no privates will still have devastating punching power over a woman?
Wow, that’s like...common sense!!
I boxed. I was ok. In my teens and twenties.
Gained too much weight in 30s. up to 260
SO..one gal at work challenged me to a boxing match. I punched part of a wall off in the elevator room and she changed her mind.
My sister, who was working out hard at the time, said she could bench more than me. couldn’t get 50 up.
I was in sad shape and didn’t get the 320 up that i did once but still did 220. And yes, even taking weight into consideration, it was no contest.
A female boss challenged me to an arm wrestle, i didn’t hurt her so i didn’t “win” but I felt NO PRESSURE on my arm.
My this only happens in insane feminist liberal NY.
At my best in boxing, Rhonda could have probably beat me lol.
IF she let me get no punches off. can’t imagine she could have withstood three or four shots to the head from me.
“First, Rousey has a history of highly transphobic remarks and flat-out ignorance when it comes to trans athletes.”
1. Anyone who uses the term Transphobic is a shill for the gaystapo.
2. What Rousey said about the ladyboy is absolutely correct. The flat out ignorance is all on the part of the faggoty author.
So.... you’re saying you like to beat on women?
(now I get to see if you have a sense of humor)
She is right. They can dress it up any way they want, but that guy is a dude and having a penis or not is not what makes a man a man. Having no sex organs makes him eunuch not a woman.
Her muscle, bone structure, stature and balance are all determined by her sex. Every molecule in her body has male DNA. Just because he is a psychopath who thinks he is a she doesn’t make it so and we have no obligation to play along with his insanity.
Enough is enough!
Well, I am Italian and I own those guinea Ts :)
Remember the scene with Carlo and the sister in the Godfather. It’s something like that.
But I stopped breaking down the bathroom door. too expensive.
I had it removed.
Rousey is at the top of the physical pyramid for females in many respects, and she deserves to be there because of her hard work. "Not a do-nothing b***h" indeed.
But when a woman is at the absolute peak, she is, at best, only going to be 75% of what a male at his peak is going to be when adjusted for size and weight. No matter how dedicated she is, no matter how hard she trains, she is going to be at a significant physical disadvantage. And when you get any athlete who is 25% less capable than another, it is going to be no contest, and by a huge margin. Just look at marathon runners...in the Boston Marathon, the top female runner crossed the finish line 15 minutes after the top male runner.
Think about what that means, when the difference between first place and second place has been decided at times in fractions of a second. It is an unbridgeable gap.
Men have the unfair advantage of nature with their natural internally produced supply of steroids. It is a fact.
There are women out there who buy into the television shows that show a woman kicking the collective butts of 10 men in hand to hand combat, but it simply isn't reality. It is scary, that to many (including those who create legislation) it IS reality.
gwinn sure-nuf looks like a butt hurt fag...
I'm a guy and I like to put my wingus into a girl
And THAT is probably what will get me booted from FR
But if I said I .... never mind
I stand firm on the above
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