#WOMEN'S SPORTS

[tracksuitlesbian]

Katie Mccabe will never not be hilarious

[dianastaurasi]

[honey-intherock]

Don't fuck with her, she's got the power of God AND anime on her side WWRRRAAARRRGGHGHHH

(This is Mari Sanchez, Colombian weightlifter and winner of the Olympic silver medal in the women's 71kg division! In these pictures, she's successfully lifting 145kg🤯)

[hadesoftheladies]

women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of the human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.

you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."

why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?

i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.

that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity. it is a form of entertainment where all female roles are agentive and active rather than passive.

women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!

y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because it is exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.

[radykalny-feminizm]

The most rational comment

[tvmusiclife]

are you normal, or are you trying to watch tennis, archery, rugby, fencing, kayaking, skateboarding, basketball, gymnastics, and swimming at the same time?

[hussyknee]

Tfw you get demolished so hard you immediately deactivate.

(alt enabled)

[0atm11k]

"Lia Thomas is not banned from swimming. Lia Thomas is banned from a category Lia Thomas doesn't qualify for. I'm banned from swimming in the under 12's, because I'm not under 12. You know, we have heavyweight boxers that are banned from the bantamweight category. We have numerous categories in the Paralympics to create fair opportunity across society. That is the whole point of categories. Nobody is banned [from competing], you're just banned from a category you don't qualify for." - Sharron Davies

[female-buckets]

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE!

[tracksuitlesbian]

Barca on EA FC 25 (No editing I just wanted to test the transfer tools)

[dianastaurasi]

[ever-so-slightly-monstrous]

If you're outraged/confused by the controversy surrounding Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting and sex testing at the Olympics (why are they allowed to do it, why are they allowed to release the results to the public, etc), then I cannot recommend enough listening to the short run podcast Tested, hosted by Rose Eveleth. The series goes into when sex testing in Olympic Women's sports started (hint: literally the moment women were allowed to compete), why it started, how it's done, the ways in which is has been challenged, put down, then comes back as if nothing has changed, and how it has destroyed the careers and lives of numerous athletes who are disproportionately dark skinned women from the global South. It cannot be overstated the role racism plays in who gets tested.

Again, that's Tested, which can be listened to here or on pretty much any podcatcher.

[hadesoftheladies]

men being stronger or faster physically is not a skill, it's an advantage. advantages do not determine how skilled of an athlete you are. most people who talk shit about women's sports can't grasp this.

[radykalny-feminizm]

Fuck it.

I don't even have the strength to comment on this.

I'm 100% done with this shit.

[reyneofswords]

to no one's shock and surprise, with XY chromosomes and testosterone levels in the "typical male range" (which is 10 to 30 times higher than the average female btw), Imane Khelif wins olympic gold

[wishfulscreaming]

I've watched so many women's sports in these Olympics I low-key forgot that men compete too.