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Maxine Blythin - 2019 Kent Woman Player of the Year

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andyoldlabour · 04/11/2019 14:41

I don't know how this passed me by, but transgender cricketer Maxine Blythin was awarded 2019 Kent Woman Player of the Year.
I have no words left to describe this situation, none at all.

www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/sport/stevo-wins-big-at-kent-awards-213134/

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lydiamajora · 05/11/2019 15:41

Count looks to be 788 comments upon last check (ten mins ago). So, well done Kent Cricket Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 05/11/2019 15:14

Some comments have been removed but it's a small proportion. I've no idea if there's any way (other than manually) of counting them. I don't have a twitter account either, maybe if people who are on it can't see comments it would mean Kent was using a block list....hopefully not?!

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andyoldlabour · 05/11/2019 15:05

midcenturylegs

Megan Belt has been nominated the "players player" - by her colleagues, which is understandable.
The Kent Board however, decided to award Maxine the 2019 Kent Woman Player of the Year accolade.
I cannot believe how efficient MN is at getting news out there and how many people are on the same wavelength, which is heartening, because I thought I was banging my head against a wall on the sports issue.
As an aside, I don't have a Twitter account, being content to lurk and absorb as much information as possible.
Did 500+ comments really get removed from twitter? Shock
If so, this is censorship on a huge scale.

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ErrolTheDragon · 05/11/2019 14:57

I can see loads of twitter responses, midcenturylegs, including new ones. No idea of how many, scrolling and scrolling

twitter.com/KentCricket/status/1177687384277835776

midcenturylegs · 05/11/2019 14:47

Call yes my thoughts exactly, the silence is deafening

midcenturylegs · 05/11/2019 14:45

Andy there were I thought 500+ comments there yesterday, but not any more. Am too wondering what happened since that update. But I'm not an old hand in Twitter-sphere so I might be wrong.

I was looking up the player of the year, mistakenly got to another Megan who plays cricket for Oz. She is a lesbian, she might be someone Fair Play could contact Esp given her latest retweet?

Maxine Blythin - 2019 Kent Woman Player of the Year
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andyoldlabour · 05/11/2019 14:12

The original article was dated 28th September 2019, and was updated yesterday at 17:58, just three hours after I started this thread - I wonder why and what did they update?
I am just pleased that this has now been made quite public, because judging by the Twitter responses, a lot of people were not aware of this.

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koshkat · 05/11/2019 14:10

It's bloody madness. And MN facilitating this is depressing indeed.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 05/11/2019 14:06

Kosh didn’t you get the memo? It’s 2019 and you can be anything...

I swear to god my eyeballs are going to roll out of my head one of these days.

koshkat · 05/11/2019 14:05

Deleted for what MN? Stating that Maxine is male?

Callmejudith · 05/11/2019 13:25

I think they're too scared to NOT endorse Maxine but they can choose to stay quiet instead

midcenturylegs · 05/11/2019 13:16

I'm wondering if the fact that none of the other players have come out of the woodwork to support Maxine speaks volumes

Callmejudith · 05/11/2019 12:55

Colour me shocked.

The player's player of the year is not Maxine

twitter.com/KentCricket/status/1177687494504194048

RuffleCrow · 05/11/2019 12:18

I'm listening to radio 4 at the moment, listening to a male person tell the female presenter how he knew he was 'non binary' when he saw an aquatic tank full of fish. I. Don't. Know. Where. To. Start.

koshkat · 05/11/2019 10:08

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NotBadConsidering · 05/11/2019 09:50

It’s one of those days where I can’t seem to smack my head on my desk enough to end the madness.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/11/2019 09:44

I saw the veiled threat towards the teacher too. MRAs still up to their old tricks

Posted by someone calling themselves 'Stupid' iirc - well who are we to argue? It was robustly challenged though.

Siameasy · 05/11/2019 09:07

I was astounded by the responses on the Tweet. A year ago I don’t think many would’ve dared tell the truth. Things are definitely changing.
I saw the veiled threat towards the teacher too. MRAs still up to their old tricks

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andyoldlabour · 05/11/2019 08:15

"The photos, the 1.83cm height"

Apparently, Maxine is 6' 4" tall so that would be 1m 93cm. Just to recap on the differences between women's and men's cricket.
Women use a lighter, smaller ball, which can be propelled much faster by a male bowler - think about the differences between the women's 600g javelin and the men's 800g javelin.
Women's bats are much lighter.
The boundaries are much shorter in women's cricket.
This is all, so wrong, but the people in control of the game, seem to be deliberately ignoring logic and biology.

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 05/11/2019 07:57

It’s just not cricket! I see that the ‘Australian women’s national soccer team will earn the same pay as their male counterparts and have an equal split of commercial revenues for the first time'. Now the cynic in me wonders about this turn of events...

mcduffy · 05/11/2019 07:53

So many replies now and lots from men. Cricket is known for its fairness so this feels even more wrong.

MidniteScribbler · 05/11/2019 02:15

Plus they’d look stupid

Because they look so sane right now.

NotTerfNorCis · 04/11/2019 23:19

A lot of anger aimed at Kent Cricket. The only person supporting them made a vaguely threatening remark towards someone who said she was a teacher.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/11/2019 23:06

How to get a sporting legend to tweet about your club.
Oh dear.
(Martina didn't half obey that instruction to get educated well!)

DetroitMotorCity · 04/11/2019 22:59

Looking stupid never seems to stop any of this nonsense.