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.
If you told her that to her face she’d knock your teeth out.
And then I’d spank her...
what the heck did I just read!!!!!!!!!!!111
Thanks for the response.
I’ll take your word on the Godfather scene. Been a long time since I watched that movie.
Ever see the movie ‘Anger Management’ ?
(just teasing again)
Back to the issue at hand, though, If you could get in a few quick punches, you might stun Ronda. But it’s not all about strength. It’s about endurance. Do you think you could last more than 4 minutes with her ?
“I stand firm on the above”
If you stand firm for more than four hours, see a doctor.
You could have just said, “be fruitful and multiply”.
NOW?! I couldn’t fit in the ring.
At 20. Again, if her speed is THAT good, and I couldn’t get punches, no.
IF I could get solid punches in, it’s still a female neck holding that head up and she couldn’t take more than a few shots.
I’ve been STUNNED and stunned is pretty bad!! It takes a half a minute or more of surviving it to get your senses back, and bby that time she would be done with a flurry of Brutal head shots. Used to do 600 push ups and sit ups a day with some tough Irish kid Brian.
Do the bag maybe over a thousand punches a day.
Had knuckle imprints on mom’s Fridge when I got mad one time.
That’s NOT easy to do.
I’d have to watch one of her tapes to see if she was fast enough to not let me get shots in.
Otherwise, she’d go down.
No offense but you’re wrong.
The only possible way a chick is going to compete with a tranny of simmilar size is if they start shooting Dianabol and HGH. And then they will end up like a high strung race horse. Yea they might then win the fight after packing on massive muscle mass but the body’s support system isn’t there for long term performance. They would quickly burn out or suffer career ending injury.
Rousey probably could do that with 10 ordinary men, but not with a top-rank MMA male fighter.
Good chart but didn’t fit on my page. Saw enough of it to get its message.
Unless you’ve boxed for a number of years, you dont know the POWER of a male fighter.
Broke my nose, ribs, and cheek bone with ONE shot at different times.
IF she was so fast I couldn’t get a shot in, yes.
I had imprints on mother’s fridge, like i said, at that age.
NO WAY she could be standing after a flurry of shots to the head when i was 20.
The gay marriage freak show has worn thin so now its going to be ginned up outrage over those who don’t say nice things about mentally deranged trannys.....
What utter BS. Rousey is spot on correct. She's not a phobe anything. That's the left's tactic to shut you up. He's a man who couldn't cut it in the men's division. Nothing more.
I’ll bring you to the Glendale Gym close by where she trains. It’s full of Armenians and they’re both scared and have the hots’ for Rhonda...
In my misspent youth I saw my share of Adirondack logging town bar ceilings and put my share of others in that position. It was a wash overall. I have to say in complete seriousness that the hardest I ever got hit was by a woman. Of course she was a Redhead. So I married her ;)
The way things are going, eventually every “women’s” sport will be filled with male competitors who’ve had surgery.
And yet the Left would define that as progress.
Even if you got punches to her head first?
You KNOW what that feels like? you dont know what’s going on for thirty seconds :)
And it’s still a female neck holding that head up.
I HAVE TO watch her fight. Like I said, if she’s fast enough that i cant get a punch in, or at least any good punches in, then maybe.
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