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:
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“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.
The top woman runner finished 15 minutes after a male runner? And the Gaystapo claims a she-man can fight a woman? I think the ignoramuses who say that sh*t should have to box him.
No disagreements. My point concerned the capability of the female top-end, and how that compares to the entirety of males. That said, there’s no linear correlation of strength — at least shown by the graph.
It is crazy. Most people who aren’t marathoners (or who follow the big marathons only to the point of who won) probably don’t know that, I sure didn’t, but you can look it up.
When I think of all the batsh*t crazy things we do with political correctness and such, the fostering of the notion that men and women can compete equally athletically is the weirdest. And you see that notion pushed at a lot of levels. There is something Orwellian about the way that some people actually believe it.
They think the reason women can’t reach the same levels of athleticism is a result of years of ingrained sexism, and not due to simple biology.
And the fact that we are even discussing it is offensive to them.
Yes, but you must admit, there are many who are more easily affected by things like outrageous movies.
While I might die trying to keep up with her, I can easily imagine worse ways to go. :=)
Got my 23 yr old daughter one of these tshirts...she loves it!
http://twitter.com/RondaRousey/status/629392655869280260/photo/1
Bellator has out-Cokered itself, Feb 13th, Royce Gracie/Ken Shamrock 3 is on. Holy bleep. Gracie last fought in 07, so long ago he got to keep a win even after testing positive for ‘roids. Shamrock has fought 6 time since then.
Kimbo Slice is fighting a clone of himself named “Dada 5000”. Insane.
UFC back in action tonight on Fox Sports 1.
When Gracie/Shamrock fight, they will have a combined age of 101. I first got into MMA watching those early UFC’s with Royce and Shamrock. They both really need to retire.
Can't blame them for taking the money if Barnum Coker is shoving it in their faces. I'm not optimistic for a very good fight, I'll watch though.
I’m in beautiful northern minnesota in my deer stand right now but I hope to have enough zip to start a thread tonight. I like Dan and Vitor both but I think Vitor will ko Dan in the 2nd.
Clay got chocked out really fast.
I am going with Dan Henderson 3rd round KO
She would break your back in less than five humps. By the time you stopped screaming like a little girl, she would be almost done eating all your ice cream sandwiches.
Ronda has my total respect!
Yup, caught in the ole guillotine thanks to a sloppy takedown. Too bad, he looked pretty good for about 10 seconds. ;p
I have trouble seeing Vitor lose this one.
Hurts so good...
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