Linford Christie's reaction

[Mankyfoot]

C'mon Linford

Mine's always in the gutter where Linford is concerned

Dh met him once

He is a man mountain...and dh is on the smaller size

Heh heh come on Rachel, you're doing a great job. Peak us up baby!

Yep , I have my popcorn ready 😁😁 RmK is the peakiest peaker of bringing people to the peak of WTF!

You've left me questioning your intelligence Melroses, not Linford's, because your interpretation and subsequent explanation are pretty poor.

Precisely, this notion of him being not quite a bright spark, perhaps thick and indeed over-sensitive to the inherent racism. WTF indeed.

Lipstickalley 10 page thread of not having it : www.lipstickalley.com/threads/excluding-trans-women-from-womens-sports-is-like-excluding-black-women-from-womens-sports.2219632/

I think Linford may have just correctly identified that McKinnon is talking out of McKinnons arse.

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Peaks!

I don't suppose there are many black men on MN. So I guess not many here can imagine how outraged you'd feel to read that your mother, sisters, daughters are not proper women - just allowed in the same space as proper women for political ease ...

I'm amazed that anyone misunderstood LC's exclamation.

(I'm female btw - obscure Archers thread namechange.)

I wasn't aware that women of colour were naturally endowed with a good percentage more of muscle, heart & lung capacity and better bone density?
If someone can tell me that they all are, then Linford has a point.
If not, then Linford is an idiot.

I'm another one who was confused as to how anyone could take his WTF as anything other than 'WTF is Rachel McKinnon on about?'

I can see now what Melroses thought he meant, but I'm pretty sure he is WTFing at McKinnon being a total douche.

A black woman literally birthed humanity into existence which is the epitome of femaleness. But black women are a bit male now cos trans?

Fuck off McKinnon you racist shit lord.

Can we just leave all the misunderstanding bollocks and concentrate on the beauty of the WTF

I feel the awesome brevity of linfords comment is being lost in recriminations

(Im exaggerating...linford seems very much like monosyllabic ds2 )

Oh and I take that back too - I'm the idiot for not seeing who made the comment in the first place.

Yes, Linford - WTF indeed.

Linford, a black man, has correctly identified the racism in McKinnon's assertion.

Black people are normally more aware of racism than white people ('oversensitive' ) because they have experienced it themselves.

It's a brilliant response. Emotion & succint. No-one is going to try and reply to that with an academic lecture on T levels.

Black women are women Asian women are women Irish women are women and so on
One thing we all have in common is we are women
Wtf indeed
The cyclist saying that black women are a subset of women or not even women

Is he not saying wtf at some knob called McKinnon talking out of their hairy manly scrotty arse

I'm a woman.

Im not a black woman because I'm not black.

I'm not a disabled woman because I'm not disabled.

I'm not a transwoman because I'm not male.

It's pretty easy really Rach.

Bloody hell, that tweet on that linked thread trying to claim that 'there are various situations where white women don't want black people around, they feel vulnerable' to try and dismiss women not wanting men in their spaces and rationalise the whole 'transwomen are a subset like black women' insanity - WTAF? My How Fucking Offensive Can You Get metre just exploded! How bloody dare they? Fuck off to the far side of fuck with that appalling racist fuckwittery.

Women welcome women in to women's spaces. Men are not women. Regardless of how they feel inside, regardless of what they choose to call themselves, regardless of what cosmetic changes they make to their bodies. Men are not a subset of women.

Agree ILoveMaxiBondi, I'm struggling to understand the other interpretation.
Black women are part of women's sports because they are women. Sports are (or should be) segregated by sex. Segregation by skin colour would be stupid. The difference between a trans woman and a black woman is the penis.

What did Melrose mean

There is something so distasteful about this thread - and the evidence of how some posters are just slightly, but crucially missing the point - that I really, really wish I hadn't opened it.

I'm confused

surely the comment can only be read one way?!