What is Riley Gaines hiding? We investigated…

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This podcast appeared in my feed today via an affiliated show… I know it is naive but it’s still hard to believe how blinkered - and unbearably smug the US liberal wing is on this. This is rubbish ( from the ‘Center for Investigative Reporting’, which I now wouldn’t trust to tell me if it was raining), but still enlightening… wondered if anyone else had heard it.

A six month dig to discredit Gaines - we’re not supposed to notice that everyone they’re trying to gotcha in this won’t dignify any of it - that finds her hiding (spoiler alert) nothing?

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reveal/id886009669?i=1000738472306

Women's justified distrust of men isn't comparable to their tendency to rape and murder us. Hence why no such thing as misandry. Calling women's fear that men might kill us "misandry" is both-sidesism and hence utter nonsense.

What does Thomas have to “expose” if Thomas is a woman? I imagine that in Thomas’ mind there is a modestly pixilated area from his belly button to his thighs so that his external genitals are obscured from casual gaze. Sadly for the poor women who were forced to share a changing room with him, his penis was in full view and apparently taking a perky interest in its surroundings.

You have to laugh. You can barely get a swimming costume on even if it's not a competitive one whilst holding onto a towel. There aren't many women who haven't tried to do exactly that on the beach. Hence those things that tie up with a drawstring round the neck. (And even they don't really work).

I suspect the explanation is that men just don't get it, because all they all they need to do is wrap a towel around their waist, job done.

Not that I think Howse has ever done any swimming or indeed had to get changed for anything athletic.

I think that like Conservatism comes in little c and big C versions, Misogyny is the same. There's the little daily hates from individuals (little m) and the Big M overarching woman hatred of (for instance) not having female crash dummies, or not testing medications on us, or keeping us in silence in our homes only allowed to look at the world through one eye.

Misandry only comes in little M. There's no systematic man-hating going on anywhere in the world.

I find it amusing that on a thread about a group that has changed definitions of words that we have the same thing going on with the word misandry.

No-one has said that its systemic, or in the case of a pp going to the absolute worst scenario.

The definition of misandry stands without the reasons or explanations that posters wish to put forward.

some women on here are misandrists.

They have a "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudiced against men."

but this is going off topic and I apologise for that.

Is it a prejudice when statistics back up that men are responsible for the vast majority of crimes committed against women?

This is the bit where, I'm supposed to say

"Would you be happy putting any other group in that statement?"

They have a "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudiced against men."

I think you've seen women expressing fear of male violence and frustration with how male violence limits our lives, and interpreted that fear as contempt, dislike, or prejudice.

When over 95% of murderers are men and 98% of sex offenders are men, and when only a male sex offender can leave only a female victim pregnant against her will, women's fear of men is rational and our frustration at their continued violence is justified.

There's no other group that are overrepresented as violent offenders to this extent. We are talking about the male 49% of the population committing over 90% of the murders. It doesn't matter whether you slice up a population by race, religion, sexual orientation, whatever, there is no other group whose members are 9x more likely to murder than their peers outwith that group.

Yes, if it was backed up by stats.

Does it look like we're "happy" putting men in that statement?

It's just true, and women have to deal with it.

Misandry 🙄This is another attempt to put feminists in a negative light for their reasonable reaction to male violence and misogyny.

Rules of misogyny:
12. Women’s ability to recognize male behaviour patterns is misandry.

Misandry

Well I certainly have dislike and contempt for all men who are violent, sex offenders, predators, bullies, intimidators, lechers, leerers, misogynists, sexists, chauvinists, and not fans of Withnail and I.

The remainder can take a bow.

Oh, misandry exists all right. The difference compared with misogyny is that misandry rarely does much damage, because of the power imbalance in favour of men. When I say 'rarely', I mean just that; not 'never', but far from 'often'.

I think her activism on behalf of women’s sports is great. The Trumpism, anti-immigration, nationalism, evangelism, mom-is-best messaging - not so much. This is what she is being paid for. And yes, I would consider some of it misinformation, and a good amount of it propaganda.

Where did I liken her to Kirk? It wasn’t me that did that.

But since you brought him up, yes, she is like Charlie Kirk. She was a friend, colleague and associate of his. She travelled around college campuses early on giving speeches with TPUSA arranged by Kirk, and the mode of her media operation of very similar to Kirk’s.

Absolutely!

'misandry' is like 'reverse racism'. It doesn't really exist and it's a term that is really only used by misogynists to insinuate women and feminists are 'men haters'.

You don’t think ‘reverse racism’ was involved in how the victims of grooming gangs were chosen? People declare that white people can’t be the victim of racism because they have power, but that is not always the case and increasingly not the case in many communities.

NRTFT and I’m sure it’s already been mentioned…
…but anyone who thinks it’s possible to stay under a towel while changing into and out of a contemporary competitive racesuit (a highly specialist tightly fitted compression garment) is a moron whose only swimming experience likely involved arm bands on a Bank Holiday at Butlins.

Riley Gains would be completely unknown if Lia Thomas hadn’t gatecrashed Riley’s swim league and cut such a hulking figure on the podium that the image went viral internationally.
If anyone has an issue with Gains making the best of a bad situation and using her 15 minutes of accidental fame as springboard to becoming a Republican media commentator then they really need to take it up with Lia.

If Lia had just stayed in his lane (the men’s competition) Riley-the-Media-Figure would never have been born.

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Screenshot source: www.simplyswim.com/pages/racing-swimwear-advice

She had graduated from college by then. She has been subjected to horrible abuse by transactivists.

Absolutely @TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown

that is why i only quoted part of your post.

Likening her to Charlie Kirk is a dogwhistle and it is menacing.

She is fighting to keep men out of women's sports. That is where she and i intersect. The rest of the things she believes? not so much. She can be friends with who she likes. I can argue against pretty much all her beliefs with why i believe they harm women, and still support her on the one thing that she believes that i also believe.

Because i am a fully rounded adult who doesn't say "that's literal violence" et al when someone doesn't allign 100% with my beliefs.

Nail. Head 😍

He claims not to be male but then also claims he claims to live in Australia… He has recently been claiming to have a husband although thus far I haven’t seen him claiming to have any children but I could have missed it as it’s impossible to keep up with all his posts.