Sharron Davies

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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/47428951

Blimey! Sharron is one amazing lady

McKinnon is a joke.

I think I have a girl crush.

Of course she's got broad shoulders you morons - she's a swimmer!

Now Joss Prior is weighing in. I don't even understand what that is meant to mean.

Sharon Davies should stfu about males competing with females being unfair, because apparently she looks trans. Even though talking about how male/female someone looks is apparently a huge nono (and I am genuinely not seeing how Sharon looks male, at all?!). We are to believe Joss and Rachel 'pass' for female better than Sharon does. Delusional fuckwits.

I try to be feminist about it and not get too hung up on looks, etc, but damn, I'd give my right arm for that body.

Id give your right arm for that body too datun

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If you train for about 25 years, you could!

I'll be 75 tinsel

Its not gonna look the same

No offence datun

Its just I'm quite attached to my arm

Less so to yours

Message from Sharron’s 20 year old daughter: twitter.com/graciedredmond/status/1103314168860631041?s=21

Less so to yours

It's fairly competent, even if I do say so myself.

Maybe a finger. Or a toe.

God Rufus, steal some plutonium from some Libyans, invent the flux capacitor and get it sorted.

It's commendable that she's attempting to defuse and keep it cool, Trig.

But it won't work.

Sharron's daughter, not Rufus.

I'm quite happy with my squishy, squashy bod. Because my body, like Sharron's, has served me well to achieve things, despite the disadvantages we've both laboured under. I am extremely grateful that we've both been able use our brains and voices to speak up for other women, just like so many other women, known or unknown.

Because that's how I know my daughters will thrive, and how I have hope that other women and girls will thrive too - women in all sorts of shapes, sizes and interests who are willing to speak up for each other in the face of self-absorbed men who live in a fantasy world and would strip women of their rights and protections.

tinsel

Fair point, complete lack of effort on my part there

Im a bit scared to google plutonium stockists...is libya still the best place?

Nope we're ok

Apparently we have tons of unradiated plutonium in the uk

That does not sound safe at all...

Thing is, most of us women who are women (no qualifier needed here), who are of a certain age, have come through the slings and arrows insults stage, and lots of us, no matter how we 'present', would tolerate a 'you look like a man' insult pretty sturdily.

It's interesting, isn't it, that males (usually in their 30s/40s/50s who are presenting/identifying/believing they are women) are the ones who think slinging such an insult will touch the sides.

I call projection. Because it would hurt them to have the trans/male thing slung at them.

They just don't get it.

Oooh, you look a bit like a man.

Er, OK, whatever, I know who I am. Whatever! Any-hoo, about this female single sex spaces, sports, prisons thing...

Meanwhile, in gender-fluid world, what indeed looks 'like a man' or 'trans? (Are they saying 'trans' is hinting at 'male-bodied'?!) Cos, surely, none of us know what a 'man' and a 'woman' is, what with all this sciencey stuff telling us it's not a thing anymore? Just your feelz.

(I think they could be challenged as being a little transphobic there!)

In the meantime, imagines a struggle between Rufus and Datun in the arm wars. Keep your body parts women!

twitter.com/kleephotography/status/1103422679653195777?s=19

Like with the Pugilators (giant cotton buds) on Gladiators.

Libyans are easy to defeat if you nick their plutonium, too. Just get them to drive into a little photo developing booth in a camper van and you're golden.

The 'You look like a man' thing is so bloody weird. It gets thrown at the Williams sisters too. I've been told I 'walk like a bloke' before now. It's a fascinating insult from people who think they are breaking gender binaries - they think that when we tell men they look like men, we are doing it as a value judgement, as an insult, when it's just a recognition of reality. So their response is to hurl wounded insults based entirely on their projected insecurity.

Seriously, why would it wound me to tell me I 'look like a man' if you reject a gender binary? Why would it be relevant? This isn't about appearance, or clothing, or identity - it's about empirical fact. Sharron Davies clearly doesn't look like a man. But even if she did, she isn't a man so it doesn't affect anything at all.