#the sports casters

[pieplease]

Underrated overall film? Surfs Up (2007)

Underrated Music Score? SURFS UP (2007)

Underappreciated comedy????? Surfs UP (2007)!!!!!

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Olympics AU: Rachel Elizabeth Dare 💚 and Lester Papadopoulos ☀️

[probablyasocialecologist]

Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions.

But the two-time Olympic champion’s success after her two failed appeals in sports’ highest court in 2019 and the Swiss supreme court in 2020 came with a major caveat. The ruling didn’t strike down the rules and the world track and field body said soon after it was released that the contentious testosterone regulations would “remain in place.”

[pirateprincessjess]

What's unprepared casters? Sounds like a show I need to watch!

It’s an amazing podcast that does shorter self contained dnd arcs, so you can jump in at any point with needing to catch up! There’s some interconnectivity between arcs, but for the most part they are all self contained stories that you can listen to without any context! That way you can jump in where you want!

I would recommend arc 9 since that’s the one I was on, but I also really adore arc 4 (it’s my favorite DnD podcast story I’ve ever listened to).

It’s on all major podcast platforms!

[ratatatastic]

cats won a cup and thats means now south florida gets free hockey broadcasted locally WE ARE A HOCKEYTOWN

[butchlifeguard]

im so glad other people think carini was being a fucking asshole lmao. i didnt wanna detract from one of the posts i reblogged but i have to say that she takes punches for a living. some sources were acting like khalif put her in DANGER. with a single punch from someone in her own weight class?? yall are setting women back 80 years i fucking swear. not to mention the nasty intersexism targeted at khalif, doubly so because shes a black woman, and the misdirected transphobia from grifters like jkr

[synthient]

Greatest feminist minds of our generation are now bringing us "womanhood is a disability"

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Thought: Lester’s nickname from when he did archery should be Apollo! Because of how good he was! And now people call him and Rachel Apollo and the Oracle because of the thing with her predicting the athletes moves and and him already being nicknamed Apollo! Or something like that!

I really like this! And it fits into their canon identities perfectly. Almost, as if, I planned it that way 🩷 I’m so happy you agree it fits!

I love the idea of them both getting nicknames for being so good at what they do.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

It’s a bit dishonest to claim the ‘ban’ is discriminatory; the guidelines do not ban transgender women from all sporting events, as it’s been reported on in some countries, but only from sporting events in the female category. Transgender women are not female, so why should they be permitted to compete in the female category?

I think one of the major problems around the ‘debate’ is the infantilisation of female athletes. We’re not seen as talented or capable as our male athletic counterparts, so our athletes and achieved can be framed as being about ‘inclusion’ and ‘fun’ and ‘artistic’ (rather than ‘competitive’ or ‘serious’ or ‘thrilling’).

I think one of the other major problems around the ‘debate’ is the willingness of well-minded people to ignore how sex differences practically play out in patriarchy (or, in other words, people are just too ‘sex-blind’). Of course female and male athletes have different sporting capacities - our sports aren’t ‘gender-neutral’/’body-neutral’ - they’re designed to show-case male bodies!

[pirateprincessjess]

are you gonna be on UC?! I’d love to see you on the show!! That would be a dream come true!

Oh wow I have some good news for you! I was actually already on Unprepared Casters! I’m on arc 9, and I’m on the last two trans lifeline streams they did!

[wall-eye]

I listened to the arc 2 ep 0 and I forgot that orbula was introduced in arc 2! Ash slept with a pro orbula player and stole his magic orbula bracers!

[b00bstone]

Bruh sick brain is messing with me so much I ordered dominos and I saw the estimated delivery time was getting shorter and I was like oh they’re going faster than they thought how nice

I forgot about the passage of time

I forgot time was passing and that’s why the estimated delivery time was getting closer.

[rulesforthedance]

Basically sports are never going to be a Totally Fair And Equal playing field where the only thing that determines your success is how hard you work because there are always going to be a million different types of bodies and genetic potentials in any category you might think to create. AND it is worth having SOME categories to make sports a little closer to fair and give more people a chance to be competitive. But the categories people choose to obsessively, rigidly police, the things about which people will say "THIS thing has to be EXACTLY EQUAL, nevermind all the other things that are not equal that I will never mention"... are. Telling

[jopzer]

being crazy about ted lasso and bg3 at the same time is making me kinda crazy i think. doing dnd shit to those soccer guys in my brain

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Do all these people that say 'trans women shouldn't compete with women because they are biologically male - they have too much testostrone etc' realise that putting these restrictions in for trans women is only gonna lead to cis women getting fucked over too??