The Best Female Swimmer in the World!

[Afroginapond]

A fun video for the Bank Holiday weekend:

Love the bit at the start: "I stayed a really slow swimmer through the first couple of years of my collegiate career then I turned 23 and all of a sudden, I'm the best swimmer in the womens' division."

Stunning and brave 💖

Love it. Once the satirists get involved the game is up.

I showed this to my DH and he showed it to a few friends. One of them got the point immediately. (the others already knew). Humour is very powerful and has a lot of explanatory power.

I enjoyed his video on as well.

"After winning the 1976 mens decathlon, she [Caitlyn Jenner] was named woman of the year in 2015, after not even being a woman for a full year."

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He certainly pokes the stick very well but that second video contains some very offensive statements - in particular about Simone Biels and mental health. wish I had known before I clicked on it.

I just spat my Coors light out at that the second it loaded 😂

No, not the most sophisticated drink for a Friday night on the sofa, but I'm out of milk so couldn't make tea 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

@Pallisers

He certainly pokes the stick very well but that second video contains some very offensive statements - in particular about Simone Biels and mental health. wish I had known before I clicked on it.

Yes. It is closer to the anti-feminist right's arguments. The dilemma we have in debating gender ideology is that many who agree with us want there to be a term for biological women for the opposite reason we want that term to exist: They want to keep biological women down, we want that not to happen.

A bit like two duelists planning to meet at dawn both need revolvers to exist but for opposite purposes.

This doesn't make the best swimmer video any less apt, though.

Yes nepeta I agree completely and you said it very well. I am in the US so it is a particularly hard and sore thing for me.

But there are so many people commenting well on this - the lionel shriver article posted on here for example - I don't want to give my airtime to men who say what he says about Simone Biels or even Kamala Harris.

I'm shit sick of having to play to men's agenda for my rights - and honestly that second video gave me that feeling.

@Pallisers

Yes nepeta I agree completely and you said it very well. I am in the US so it is a particularly hard and sore thing for me.

But there are so many people commenting well on this - the lionel shriver article posted on here for example - I don't want to give my airtime to men who say what he says about Simone Biels or even Kamala Harris.

I'm shit sick of having to play to men's agenda for my rights - and honestly that second video gave me that feeling.

I'm sorry if that's caused you any distress. I like looking to see what the 'other side' are saying and I'm actually rather fascinated with where AwakenJP has ended up. The last time I saw his videos were years ago when he was poking fun at the extreme side of wellness culture. But at the same time he was actually living a quite holistic lifestyle and was in the with 'Zen' approach to life, complete with a hippie wedding in the woods.

The restrictions applied during covid and restrictions seem to have led to him really rail against the Democratic side. From what I remember of him, I'd have put in the Democratic camp back when I last saw him. The US is so polarised, even more than the UK, it's like people live in completely separate worlds which is exacerbated by essentially only having 2 parties to vote for. Not that we've got a great deal of choice in the UK either.

Didn't see the other video and don't know the name.

But this is part of the problem - many of those who are on "our" side may be genuinely transphobic and would like us back in the kitchen too.