#is really getting into it now

[bsaka7]

One of Knoll's [secretary-general of the International Federation of Sports Physicians] letters ended up in the hands of Carl Diem, the German official who, in addition to his work on the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympics, was now a prominent member of the IAAF [International Amateur Athletic Federation] "Two bogus cases of hermaphrodites have been in the press lately," Knoll wrote to Diem, citing Koubek and Weston by name, "proving that women's elite sports contain elements that do not belong there and must be eliminated at all costs." If the Organizing Committee wasn't proactive about the threat of "abnormal" athletes playing in women's sports, Knoll warned, then the Nazis risked enduring accusations of cheating at the forthcoming games. Knoll concluded: "I request that all female participants in the Olympic Games should have their gender checked beforehand by a specially-commissioned doctor." He suggested that these checks be done at the women's dormitories shortly before the start of the Berlin Olympics. Since all the women were going to live together in the same dorm, called the Friesenhaus, implementing a sex test should require "no technical difficulties." Knoll made no mention of testing athletes in men's competitions. In his framing, trans and intersex women, whom he called "hermaphrodites," a common term at the time that in Knoll's writing retained a derisive edge, were the only group worthy of concern. The fact that one of the inspirations for his letter, Koubek, was no preparing to play in men's sports and therefore would not have even been examined under this framework, did not seem to cross his mind. Knoll signed off, "Heil Hitler!" Knoll still had not developed a clear explanation of ow he wanted sports officials to "check" the female athletes or what they should even be looking for: What defined an "abnormal" athlete in the first place? Though he occasionally nodded to the misconception that certain "abnormal" women possessed athletic advantages, he didn't make clear what those advantages were. Would have have considered a woman with too much muscle or body hair to be "abnormal," and at an advantage, and therefore worth disqualifying on the grounds of cheating? What about tall women? Didn't they have an advantage in some sports, too? Or was he simply concerned with genitalia -- and if he was, what genitalia would he have considered disqualifying? Reading between the lines of these letters underscores the truth: there was no coherent ideology or intellectual idea behind Knoll's push for sex testing. For as adamant as he was that the Olympics needed to regulate athletes on the basis of their bodies, he seemed to spend shockingly little time considering what those regulations would look like. He simply hadn't thought it through. Instead, Knoll's push for sex testing could be seen as a reactionary measure, colored almost entirely by his own anxieties about masculinity and femininity -- and, perhaps not incidentally, by his commitment to eugenics. Knoll's campaign for medical exams sounded a lot like his prior statements urging that Nazi leaders purge "unsuitable elements," a group that he included to mean Jewish and non-white people, from sports. To Knoll, regulating women's bodies was probably an extension of that fear of difference. A woman who didn't mean his standards of femininity, whatever those standards were, represented a challenge to the eugenic state. The Nazis associated masculine women with sterility and lesbianism; they were seen as unable to reproduce and, therefore, should be swept to the margins of society.

Michael Waters, The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), 173-175.

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[scramratz]

Did you know it’s legal in the USA for mattress companies to put fiberglass in their mattresses? They don’t even have to label them! So if you wanna commission me so I can buy a new bed I won’t stop you

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[hollowboobtheory]

really? another album? didn't she just make one??

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

elita pep talk

[chloesimaginationthings]

Everyone loves FNAF music man.. even Michael

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[napping-sapphic]

take your clothes off and get on the bed what no we aren’t having sex right now we’re cuddling and pressing every inch of skin together as close as possible for the next six hours

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[littlefankingdom]

Dick who climbed on anything as a child. Even in public, especially in public. The moment Bruce looks away, he is climbing something to get as high as possible. The first times, it gave Bruce an heart attack. Now, it's just a headache.

People pass by and ask if they should call the firefighters, and Bruce tiredly tell them "He is fine, he can get down on his own.", like people with cats.

Imagine, you're walking out of some building, only to see a 10 years old standing on top of a lamppost, having a discussion with his dad guardian at the bottom.

"Dick, get down."

"Make me."

"Get down or you're grounded."

[jeanmoreaux]

adore how the evil boop is *the* expression of love when booping people like yes ofc i did waste precious seconds to press that stupid button for an annoyingly long time just to send you the most useless yet most specialest, weirdly aggressive boop <3

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[valtsv]

i did actually attend a catholic school as a kid because it was the only school within walking distance and my parents worked all week so they couldn't drop me off elsewhere and while i was there one of the other kids stabbed me through the hand with a pencil during a fight so i guess i'm like. 1/5th stigmatic.

[jojaxcola]

the jojamart mockumentary that constantly plays in my mind

[that1notetaker]

Getting out of the comfort zone can be uncomfortable.