The Last Leg’s take on Valentina Petrillo

Apologies @OvaHere meant to quote!

My DH is finally properly angry after this and the Olympic boxing debacle. He's agreed intellectually with my rants for a long time but in typical man fashion thought it was a storm in a tea cup that wasn't ever really going to affect sport in a meaningful way.

Also my DP to an extent. He knows it's completely batshit though.

My DH was genuinely surprised & shocked by what Adam Hills said. And he was once a London media TV production type. So it's nice to hear that from my husband, who is the type to enjoy TLL and agree with a lot of what they say in general.

I think men are having some complex feelings about this.

Mine is slowly getting it. I echo what @OvaHere said above

My DH is finally properly angry after this and the Olympic boxing debacle. He's agreed intellectually with my rants for a long time but in typical man fashion thought it was a storm in a tea cup that wasn't ever really going to affect sport in a meaningful way.

I'd like to say I'm smug about being right but there's no victory to be found in this hideous mess.

The cognitive dissonance of some men regarding this obvious unfairness is absolutely mind blowing.

He's shouting at you because he doesn't want his cognitive dissonance pierced.

Unsurprised. I suddenly go and have an urgent bath every time The Last Leg comes on. My husband loves it. I know I can't comment on anything as my husband will just shout at me again for making an annoying fuss over nothing. I thought I married one of the good ones .....

Loving the people pushing back about this on X and hoping he reads it.

My husband and I used to love TLL but the amount of cringe shit in it really is out of control. And this just takes the biscuit.

What they really need is an actual real woman and athlete to come on and talk about it. They do want to learn and be informed right? Or would they rather just score their virtue points,?

Although these virtue points are looking increasingly cringey.

But that wouldn't be fairrrrrrrrrrrrr because Adam is a man and as we all know, it's only fair when it's a woman on the receiving end of male entitlement.

The amount of pushback on X is heartening - the Last Leg crew will be in no doubt as to how people feel about their unforgivable smugathon.

How would Adam feel if Sir Andy Murray decided to identify as disabled and demanded to be allowed to play? Andy could probably put together a strong claim, because it is possible to 'transition' from abled bodied to disabled.

Oh the irony... 'we just want a level playing field'

x.com/bbcr4today/status/1825460004331172180?s=46&t=IZ8vQZeKyx4LPbr4nXuPkA

A picture paints a thousand words.

It's so easy and sounds so nice to praise inclusivity and breaking barriers, until you think about what that means in practice. Sometimes, barriers are (or at least should be) there for a reason. As someone said, they have prioritised inclusivity over fairness.

Fellow competitor Oksana Boturchuk said: “I find this not fair. I am not against transgenders in general but in this situation, I do not understand and don’t support it.”

I mean - if the Last Leg had the courage of their convictions when praising the inclusivity of this event - why no photo? Why no clip of the race?
I think I can guess.

I think everyone sees it,but some put their hands over their eyes and pretend they don't.

My god that photo @Plasmodesmata

It beggars belief that anyone could look at it and not immediately see the unfairness to those female athletes.

Oliver Brown is great.

trying link instead
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/paralympic-sport/2024/09/02/valentina-petrillo-defiant-paralympics-scandal-paris-2024/#:~:text=Valentina%20Petrillo%20dissolved%20in%20tears,male%20to%20race%20against%20women.

I think this image from the Telegraph is also quite instructive as it includes the male guides, so a bit of comparison is possible.
Edit - if it had actually posted it would have been instructive. I'll try again.

Oliver Brown, Telegraph chief sports writer, gets it. He’s quite vocal on Twitter.

Thanks for the photo. I have posted it on my fb. So many people I know are largely oblivious of what is happening.

It's a terrible show anyway, smug and patronising. It's the willful blindness that tweaks my tits. 2 of the presenters are physically disabled and actually u derstand some of the challenges faced by all these athletes, yet they're prepared to not see the cuckoo in the nest that takes a giant dump on the other competitors. Actually, they applaud the cuckoo. Its the most wondrous cuckoo in the world.

It's so cowardly. This whole shebang has revealed so much more about people's morals and inner courage than they realise.