Transgender stuff - what's going on?

[3 Stacks]

I love women, credit to me, but the possibility of a tiny girl athlete getting steamrolled by someone identifying as a woman is very amusing.  I may have said this before, the whole thing is hilarious.

[Rushies tash]

3 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

I love women, credit to me, but the possibility of a tiny girl athlete getting steamrolled by someone identifying as a woman is very amusing. The whole thing is hilarious.

 

Unless it's your little girl I suppose.

[3 Stacks]

Just now, Rushies tash said:

 

Unless it's your little girl I suppose.

I mean, I guess.

[Pidge]

15 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

 

Unless it's Caitlin clark I suppose.

 

[Rushies tash]

4 minutes ago, Pidge said:

 

 

I'd never even heard of her until I looked her up just now.

[Pidge]

Just now, Rushies tash said:

 

I'd never even heard of her until I looked her up just now.

Clark? Nah, I didn't expect many would. She's great though, but the hysteria every time she gets a hard foul is absurd.

 

WNBA is well worth a watch (assuming you already like bball of course)

[Rushies tash]

Just now, Pidge said:

Clark? Nah, I didn't expect many would. She's great though, but the hysteria every time she gets a hard foul is absurd.

 

WNBA is well worth a watch (assuming you already like bball of course)

 

My eldest had loves it, but doesn't really watch the women's league.

 

I actually presumed it must be a bloke the way this thread is.

[Bjornebye]

I don’t think transgenders should play in women’s sports. Especially kids sports. 
 

They have an unfair advantage and it can cause serious injury. 

[Pidge]

6 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

 

My eldest had loves it, but doesn't really watch the women's league.

 

I actually presumed it must be a bloke the way this thread is.

 

If you have tnt/discovery+ and go on the app, you can go to 'all sports' and find the basketball, including a bunch of WNBA games. Rookie class this season has 4/5 real top drawer talents coming through.

 

Loads of missed layups, but good competitive matches all round.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

10 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

 

My eldest had loves it, but doesn't really watch the women's league.

 

I actually presumed it must be a bloke the way this thread is.

Women don’t even watch the WNBA.

 

Which always takes me back to this from Bill Burr.

 

 

[Rico1304]

12 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I don’t think transgenders should play in women’s sports. Especially kids sports. 
 

They have an unfair advantage and it can cause serious injury. 

Mate, that makes you a transphobe. 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Rico1304 said:

Mate, that makes you a transphobe. 

It better bloody well not! 

[Rico1304]

48 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

I love women, credit to me, but the possibility of a tiny girl athlete getting steamrolled by someone identifying as a woman is very amusing.  I may have said this before, the whole thing is hilarious.

The idea that you could be on the sidelines, pointing at the bloke steamrolling the girl and complaining that it’s unfair but being labelled as the baddie, or the girl complaining and being banned - is fucking mental. 

[Pidge]

10 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Women don’t even watch the WNBA.

 

Which always takes me back to this from Bill Burr.

 

 

Viewership up 200% this season. 

 

Thankfully Bill's got about five years of newer material.

[Bruce Spanner]

25 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Clark? Nah, I didn't expect many would. She's great though, but the hysteria every time she gets a hard foul is absurd.

 

WNBA is well worth a watch (assuming you already like bball of course)

 

In fifty words tell me what the fucks going on with/about her?

 

I've seen her name loads and don't have the faintest idea if she a dickhead/saint etc.

[3 Stacks]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

Viewership up 200% this season. 

 

Thankfully Bill's got about five years of newer material.

That league could only drastically improve, or fold. 

[Pidge]

4 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

In fifty words tell me what the fucks going on with/about her?

 

I've seen her name loads and don't have the faintest idea if she a dickhead/saint etc.

She's brilliant. Runs a classic point guard game while having an on-call game modelled after Curry. And she's got a great shot on her. Still a rookie though, lots of turnovers as she's getting full court pressure all game every game. Broke all sorts of college records and is already breaking rookie records in the league.

 

Meanwhile, the draft class is getting a rough reception from the league vets and social media fandom has been totally balanced, well-informed and rational about it all, as you'd expect.

 

There's a more senior player in the league, Ionescu, who's probably going to be the main ball handler for their Olympic side that is also a great watch for pretty much the same reasons. 

[Bruce Spanner]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

She's brilliant. Runs a classic point guard game while having an on-call game modelled after Curry. And she's got a great shot on her. Still a rookie though, lots of turnovers as she's getting full court pressure all game every game. Broke all sorts of college records and is already breaking rookie records in the league.

 

There's a more senior player in the league, Ionescu, who's probably going to be the main ball handler for their Olympic side that is also a great watch for pretty much the same reasons. 

 

Cheers, but why is she getting so much online vitriol, has she said something political/controversial?

 

I just don't get it.

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

She's brilliant. Runs a classic point guard game while having an on-call game modelled after Curry. And she's got a great shot on her. Still a rookie though, lots of turnovers as she's getting full court pressure all game every game. Broke all sorts of college records and is already breaking rookie records in the league.

 

There's a more senior player in the league, Ionescu, who's probably going to be the main ball handler for their Olympic side that is also a great watch for pretty much the same reasons. 

How many thousand blokes of her age do you think are better than her? 

[Pidge]

Just now, Rico1304 said:

How many thousand blokes of her age do you think are better than her? 

 

I don't really give a shit.

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Cheers, but why is she getting so much online vitriol, has she said something political/controversial?

 

I just don't get it.

She is insanely popular and attracting eyes on women's basketball and old/current players are covertly making this a bit of a race issue, because she is white. 

 

Cue the alt right supporting her in an over the top manner and the woke left not appreciating that she isn't speaking up on social issues and whatnot.

[Pidge]

2 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

She is insanely popular and attracting eyes on women's basketball and old/current players are covertly making this a bit of a race issue, because she is white. 

 

Cue alt right supporting her in an over the top manner and woke left not appreciating that she isn't speaking up on social issues and whatnot 

 

Pretty much. Although everything posted about also has "why don't you post about [insert significantly less talented player here]" and free flowing accusations of racism for saying anything positive about her.

 

It's weird as fuck. 

 

Edit: she's managing with relative class throughout. 

[Rushies tash]

2 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Cheers, but why is she getting so much online vitriol, has she said something political/controversial?

 

I just don't get it.

 

From what I've read (in the last ten minutes, admittedly), I think there's a racial element that's been jumped on by the usual suspects.

[Bruce Spanner]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

She is insanely popular and attracting eyes on women's basketball and old/current players are covertly making this a bit of a race issue, because she is white. 

 

Cue the alt right supporting her in an over the top manner and the woke left not appreciating that she isn't speaking up on social issues and whatnot.

 

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

 

Pretty much.

 

Just now, Rushies tash said:

 

From what I've read (in the last ten minutes, admittedly), I think there's a racial element that's been jumped on by the usual suspects.

 

Cheers all.

[Rico1304]

14 minutes ago, Pidge said:

 

I don't really give a shit.

I’ll admit I worded this very poorly. 
 

Of the thousands of boys her age who are better would you support any of them playing in the women’s league because they decide they women?