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Damn it bros…. Thought I followed a bodybuilding account and it turned out to just be regular old soft core porn. I can go “AWOOOOGA” on my own time, I want to see Athletes!
Keep on keeping in…
as a followup its great that so many gay male skaters feel secure and supported enough to come out but where are my lesbians? lots of other women’s sports have a significant population of queer athletes yet where are they in figure skating? also on that note I think it’s so funny that the NHL is like ‘no gay in here no sirree’ when women’s hockey literally has a problem with team Canada and team usa players marrying each other and having babies (https://www.them.us/story/usa-canada-womens-hockey-weddings). same with american basketball where there’s zero openly LGBT players in the men’s league but in the wnba some of the best players (ex. Brittney griner, sue bird, Diana taurasi, Sheryl swoopes) are openly queer. it's like the men are over here still going ‘no homo’ when they express an emotion that’s not anger while the women are marrying each other and having each other’s babies.
can’t believe they made a figure skating anime called ‘yuri on ice’, made it gay, but the gay was a m/m relationship??!! that’s like making a lesbian figure skating anime called ‘yaoi on ice’.
me when it hits me that I’m about to be a college athlete???? like forreal????
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.
does anyone have a wnba league pass account they wouldn’t mind letting me use? i would greatly appreciate it!
I did in fact cry at work when I saw Alex Morgan’s retirement video.
She announced her retirement to MILLIONS of people in a video she made herself, filmed on her phone with no cuts or editing. She started crying within 30 seconds and announced her pregnancy.
This is a legendary retirement announcement.
She has she has worked SO HARD and she has given SO MUCH to this sport and this community. I am so incredibly happy that she got to go out on her own terms because she fucking earned it.
Where else in the sports world would we find this level of humanity and grace from someone who was the face of the sport (nationally and internationally) for the past decade? Where else would we find a GOAT announcing retirement in their home- with just their words, their voice, and a camera?
I love women’s sports, and I love women’s soccer.
Saving this so I have resources next time someone asks why chess and videogames as a sport should remain sex segregated for tournaments to be fair.
i watched the ESPYS Award Show for the Best Comeback Athlete for this year and sadly Paige did not win. But I’m so glad that Simone won because honestly, she deserves an award like that and especially as a black gymnast, it’s definitely her getting an award that’s recognizing her for something she’s passionate about.
I would hate to see if people are hating on the face that Paige didn’t win. I know people are upset but let’s just come back to reality, it wasn’t only her in the category and no one should be mad at Simone for winning. Just be happy Paige was nominated and there are many other awards she can win later in the year once she starts playing again. Honestly, let’s not be racist and appreciate the fact that a women, specifically a black women won Best Comeback Athlete.
Of course I’ll never stop loving Paige because there would be no reason to. CONGRATS TO SIMONE BILES!! ❤️
this is so important to me and I can’t stop thinking about if 10 year old me would’ve been able to go into a sporting goods store and see this
maybe she wouldn’t have quit hockey
went to pro hockey life today to get myself a Toronto Sceptres hat and saw some of our fave TO girlies while I was there.