Simone Biles attacks Riley Gaines

I prefer to term it ‘not necessarily agreeing with everything a person says or does just because they are a woman and/or a woman’s rights campaigner’.

Of course it is. Internalised misogyny is rife unfortunately.

Is that possible since I am one?

Is that possible since I am one?

That's exactly why I was so (unpleasantly) surprised to see her pull this shit on Riley

AI, draw Simone Biles but make it not look like Simone Biles.

If Riley's activism regarding women's sports is "anti trans" then anyone taking the opposite of point of view is "anti women".

Are you "anti women"?

Which makes it all the more disappointing that she decided to body shame another woman, who has essentially the same opinion as her about men in women's sports (but isn't afraid to say so) simply for having the wrong political beliefs.

In any case, what was the creator of that AI image supposed to do? Say, "draw a picture of Simone Biles pulling the ladder away from some little girls but make Simone Biles 5ft3 so she is taller than the little girls"?

The topic is Riley Gaines and Simone Biles. Not other people. The point I was making is that RG’s whole identity is anti-trans activism/ultra-Conservative pundit. Of course there are people on all sides of the spectrum that operate similarly.

The topic is Riley Gaines and Simone Biles. Not other people. The point I was making is that RG’s whole identity is anti-trans activism/ultra-Conservative pundit. Of course there are people on all sides of the spectrum that operate similarly.

Perhaps you’ve missed the taunts she regularly receives then from certain sectors due to her height.

Perhaps you’ve missed the taunts she regularly receives then from certain sectors due to her height.

Don't be so silly.

Simone Biles doesn't have a child's physique, because she is very muscular. She is the height of a child, however.

She is 30cm taller than my DS, who is 4.

The usual biased one-sided nonsense from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/13/simone-biles-riley-gaines-apology-reaction

Simone Biles, the true hero in this story has magnanimously apologised (with a bit of help from her PR team because her tweets went down like a cup of cold sick), whilst anti-trans right-winger RG is still going on Fox News.

The article conveniently omits to mention that SB's personal remarks were comparing RG to a man and that she showed a remarkable level of ignorance because third categories have already been tried. Is it too much to hope for the Guardian to have a tiny bit of balance?

The other problem with the image I posted earlier in the thread is it depicts children, so specifically, the gymnast in the red leotard on the top of podium has a child’s physique - not a woman’s. No doubt this was deliberate.

Exactly. I’m concerned that @JessaWoo doesn't really understand what “engagement farming” is.

And I am actually around Biles' height, I'd have to check what her actual height is, but I'm 148cm (don't know what that is in feet/inches) and I think we're actuallty the same height, so I get her insecurity on a personal experience level. But I've never bullied or insulted tall girls to make myself feel better.

Apparently she retweeted it. The horror.

That is not her twitter account....

And transactivists don't make money when they go on non-right news outlets? If you follow any social media of some of the well-known transactivists, you will see that literally the brand of being trans is all they have, all they live for. At thi point it is beyond a social contagion, it's a manic obsession where they have no reason to live except from being seen as being trans. Go on social media. They have in their name 'transmoma', 'translicious', 'transpride', 'transforever', etc. Everything despite the pompoms and cheerleading or lyrics to sweet transoline in their bio. It's an intense over-identified mania and love and fixation. An infatuation. It's akin to Scientology where any dissent will cause the 'suppressor' to be thrown out, and there reason for living or being if it's not for the trans c*lt. It's like Jonestown imo, they even say "Death before detransition". If those cult-like words don't make your blood run cold, I don't know what to say.

And it's all they make their money from. Several of them are unemployed. Being trans is their entire identity, their entire reason for being alive. They don't discuss sport, the desecration of bee colonies, the war (Ukraine or Gaza), their favourite tv show. Or even mention their families at all. They have zero point to being alive apart from being trans as a currency.

Yet you say absolutely nothing about that.

You don't realise; every comment you make so far can be argued to be duplicitous and hypocritical, and applies equally - at bare minimum - to your side.

It's interesting that USA Gymnastics has had a policy accepting anyone into the women's category who claims that they're female. The women's gymnastics routines are different from the men's, and among women, smaller competitors tend to do best (like Simone Biles). So how someone with a male physique and size would get along is a good question.

Quick web search, and these guys may not be Simone Biles, but they're not totally making fools of themselves:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gymnastics/comments/9fmddh/men_doing_womens_gymnastics/

Not to say men belong in women's competition, but maybe the men's events could be expanded.