US women’s sports star Sophie Cunningham speaking up on defending women's sports

How ridiculous is it that there's a need for a petition calling for the Women's NBA to enact a Female-Only Player eligibility criteria. 🤯

When you think of the amount of time and effort it took, for decades, from so many women athletes to get all of the women's sports off the ground, to get the funding, to get the recognition, to be taken seriously, all for it to be tossed away in favour of a manifestly stupid ideology, that's deeply misogynistic and so destructive to women and young girls.

A petition has been started.

https://x.com/hogshead3au/status/2088424377972936782?s=46

Martina was very quick to sign.

It will be interesting to see if these women are the ‘right’ women to be heard or whether someone will
soon be along to denigrate them as more of the they are the wrong women**.

I remember last year one prolific poster claimed that Martina’s voice was to be ignored. I am sure that any female athlete’s signing this petition will be attacked and demonised.

** for ‘wrong’ read ‘grifter’, ‘far right’, ‘maga’, ‘tools of the far right’.

I don’t believe I can post the link directly. But the petition is on change dot com.

Clearly not as “divisive” as some people might wish!

Get lost with the "divisive" criticism of Cunningham. Twice.
Read the verbatim quote of what she said, no hate conveyed to those who ID as trans, but female sports are for females.
If she'd have said this 20-30 years ago, do we think any numbskull journalists would have objected?
Of course not, she'd have been conveying a standard message on female opportunities, safety and dignity. Reality and science itself.
Only one side is being "divisive" here, and it's the one attacking her.
Maybe several months of one WBNA committee after another after another ad nauseum chosen to define "what's a woman when it comes to the WBNA?" will eventually reveal a policy that will generally echo Cunningham's words, and be "divisive" itself.
The very fact that a whole series of committees are needed to answer this most fundamental, yet simple, of Qs, in itself gives the game away that the argument to allow male bodies into female sport is built on sand.
And the TRAs have the gall to refer to GC as "a cult".

Bumpety bump bump

I thought he got banned from coming here, and there was a hoo ha?

He was recently over here for some reason, I didn't read the link because I was in a rush and I really don't like the man. I'm just hoping he's not trying to export his 'influence' here, I would think he's some sort of god to the Gruesome Greens as it is.
One of their number Francesca Hong was recently beaten in the primaries in Wisconsin, they pick a moderate Democrat instead, so there is hope.

I think they’re banking on Trump and government being too batshit for the majority so they don’t need to learn anything, they can get away with being “slightly less batshit” in the eyes of the electorate and win that way.

It doesn't look like they have, I mean the Democrats have allowed candidates from the DSA to stand as Democrat candidates and win in a couple of recent elections. The likes of Hasan Piker has been out campaigning with some of these candidates - that doesn't demonstrate good sense and moderation to me.

I think in certain circles they’d be terrified of coming into contact with reality.

I agree, but they are not doing themselves any favours. What is the benefit to existing in an echo chamber? In a rare moment of insight on Reddit, I heard someone refer to it as 'toxic positivity'. At some point, they will come into contact with reality and won't be able to cope.

This is my big fear. Have they actually learned from the last election?

That CNN article should reference female college volleyball in the US. Report the chaos wrought by one or two TIMs in that league. Fox in the chicken coop doesn't quite cover it.
Quillette.com has all the receipts.

Fools that come out with that easily debunked stuff are all over Reddit, and the problem is that people countering them are censored unless they’re very very careful indeed, and even where not the halfwit you’re arguing with just keeps repeating the same crap and linking the same shite so people get bored and it’s left to stand. Reddit is fucking awful for that, worse than here, worse than Twitter. Because the difference is selective censorship by the moderators to push an agenda.

Yes, it’s a fascinating phenomenon.

She’s great. I first saw the pointing clip on IG then got fed more WNBA clips. It looks so vicious and prone to pain.

This satire just keeps on writing itself.
A group that met to hammer out what a woman is, decided that a woman is....something that will be decided by a lot of other meetings. Lol.

SC is almost becoming a sports version of JKR: if anyone says anything in support of her it's "burn the witch" territory.

"...alignment with the values of our league."

Which shows what position they're starting from, that Woman in the WNBA are a secondary consideration. 😤

Oh thank God. I'd have been gutted if Hugh Laurie had been a gender woo acolyte

They are trying to sign SC up to a sponsor contract or some such so I'm inclined to view their PR with caution.
It doesn't seem like The Cunningham Effect is going to be dying down anytime soon, which is encouraging.