"This rhetoric is rooted in the misogynistic idea that women are weaker, smaller require protection…"
A terrific storm hit Mexico several days ago when a much-loved longboard contest there was throttled by trans-activists after including the rule, “There are only two divisions: natural born women and natural men.”
Pretty silly to be so transparent for we live in an age of confected danger and outrage. Most people know to pull their heads in when it comes to dudes with dickies and the slightly rarer jock pussy.
After a post appeared with the controversial rule, contest organiser Izzy Preciado was slammed, first, by Fringe Surfers New England, which was quickly followed by Surf Equity, whom you’ve read about here, here, here, here and here.
In the hysteria that followed, sponsors were urged, with varying success, to pull out the Mex Log Fest or else would be seen to be “condoning the perpetuation of bigotry and hate.”
“The bigotry mentioned in the screenshots is absolutely contrary to our values and our team has relayed this accordingly to the event founders,” the company wrote in a DM to Fringe Surfers New England.
Hydrophile Surf Craft, maker of fins for longboards, singles, experimental craft etc, were similarly aghast.
“I wanted to take a moment to be sure I made it clear how I stand on trans rights, gender equality, and human rights in general. The targeted exclusion of trans athletes from @mexilogfest by @surfinmexico is not okay. There is no room for hate in surfing and I implore you to stand against it as well.”
Someone calling ‘emselves @sats_ko lit up on a “cis bro supporting a cis bro who is the founder and event direct of “Bigot Fest” with a lengthy screed.,
“Trans women’s inclusion in surfing is a feminist issue and a human rights issue – and this vile exclusionary rhetoric harms ALL women. Obviously this is blatant transphobia – and he is not thinking/caring about the trans experience – but one thing that stands to me is: I imagine he thinks he is speaking in solidarity with cis women (?) – whereas, banning trans women hurts cis women too.
“Because ppl come in all shapes and sizes – and this rhetoric is rooted in the misogynistic idea that women are weaker, smaller require protection etc. Would he prefer weight classes to make things ‘fairer’ amongst different sized ppl. No because it’s not really about that.
“But what banning trans women does it put scrutiny on cis women who may be taller, more muscular, more masc/butch/androgynous. I hope this can start a dialogue to unpick get ppl reflecting how these arguments are rooted in misogyny.”
Powerful words although experience does tell me that, generally, women are weaker than men, although miles ahead when it comes to mind fucking, again, generally.
More importantly, take Eddie Rodrigues, below, a crossover gal.
Is the line blurring for you now?
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I don’t think we were ever disagreeing on that point, that owning people is a horrible practice.
The Founders grappled with the issue of slavery, and not sure if you know, but Jefferson had drafted a Clause to be included in the Declaration of Independence.
Here is Jefferson’s Clause which was ultimately deleted after prolonged debate:
He [King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Jefferson also stated that slavery would be the one issue that could split the Union.
From a letter Jefferson wrote to John Holmes 22 April 1820.
I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. it is hushed indeed for the moment. but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. a geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once concieved and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would, to relieve us from this heavy reproach, in any practicable way. the cession of that kind of property, for it is so misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected: and, gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be. but, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one state to another would not make a slave of a single human being who would not be so without it, so their diffusion over a greater surface would make them individually happier and proportionally facilitate the accomplishment of their emancipation; by dividing the burthen on a greater number of co-adjutors. an abstinence too from this act of power would remove the jealousy excited by the undertaking of Congress; to regulate the condition of the different descriptions of men composing a state. this certainly is the exclusive right of every state, which nothing in the constitution has taken from them and given to the general government. could congress, for example say that the Non-freemen of Connecticut, shall be freemen, or that they shall not emigrate into any other state?
I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves, by the generation of ’76. to acquire self government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it. if they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they would throw away against an abstract principle more likely to be effected by union than by scission, they would pause before they would perpetrate this act of suicide on themselves and of treason against the hopes of the world. to yourself as the faithful advocate of union.
Have you ever thumbed through the Jefferson Papers?
Also, Jefferson wrote a Bible where he removed all references to the Old Testament, miracles, and the resurrection, and such.
There’s a program from the Smithsonian that does a really good job presenting what Jefferson did. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
I dont have any “idea” of what I’m trying to say either, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Carry on.
Stalin was so progressive
I will after you go off on the Cherokee for owning slaves. I want 200 words about how shitty the Cherokee were, and still are, for owning negro slaves.
“again. Fuck em'” Serial offender hey? You do you, I love that for you.
You gonna bid on Slater’s surfboard up for auction?
If he could read, he’d be very angry.
Lol.
The funniest part about this is that you have educated white woman with the power that comes with her platform using a woke framework to dictate to Mexicans how to run their Mexican sports organizations.
I followed that quite closely. She’s a crafty wee snake, that one. And her applauders very very angry.
where is the love towards shapers who wanted to do a70/30 rail and have hard edges on their logs?
outrage that someone puts parameters on a surf contest !
I mean I could start a movement ,”let shapers be free ,stop telling us what we can and can’t shape!”…….I am sure there are more shapers that TransG’s…..
Then we have surfequity, hating on the Surf contest director/comp , while promoting an anti-hate message , which in affect is a threat to mexilogfest , ah the hypocrisy of it all???
It’s funny how you never hear of any women athletes converting to men and competing against the men and dominating. Only men competing against women.
Why is this always the case? Is something different? Hmmm
There is a trans man who plays in Canada’s women’s soccer team. Because she’s a real man.
It’s called testosterone – a hormone which conveys athletic advantages.
You also don’t read about athletes taking oestrogen from an external source, as it conveys no athletic advantage.
Okay all you tranny loving and ball gargling sportsfans, listen up. In 2 weeks the City and County of Honolulu Parks and Recreation department will hold a public hearing on the proposed new permitting rules for surf events to be held on the north shore from January 1, 2025 through May 31, 2027.
For those belly-aching whiners who lament the loss and scheduling of prime O’ahu surf spots for the pro tour this hearing should be interesting for many reasons. Despite the WSL’s past bumbling of their permits and their subsequent failed strong arm attempt to bully Hawaii politicians (https://www.outsideonline.c…) the granular minutiae of the proposed rule changes and permitting are significant.
For the giddy denizens of BG’s gay brigade the following passage is noteworthy:
(E) Diversity of gender. The city desires
to provide opportunities to surfers of
all genders and non-binary surfers.
Surf calendars are historically
dominated by surf events for male
surfers. For purposes of these
administrative rules, transgender
athletes shall be categorized as their
self-identified gender and non-binary
athletes shall be categorized in the
gender they self-select for the event.
Additional points shall be awarded to
applications that include
underrepresented genders of surfers.
The complete proposed rules can be found here:
https://www.honolulu.gov/re…
The Zoom link for the live hearing on 10/20/2023 at 2pm HI time is here:
https://bit.ly/shorewaterhe…
For random comments from a year ago see here:
https://www.honolulu.gov/re…
Mexi Logfest “Alphabet People div.” Problem Solved
There is no such thing as trans women. You’re a man. You can get genital mutilation surgery, fake tits and collagen lips and that will never make you a woman. Never. Take your mental illness and go isolate yourself with every other nutcase to has the same mental disease. A healthy society can’t exist with you in it. Just fucking leave.
It’s a human universal for as long as there’s been humans. Across cultures and geographical places and human chronology, there have been “them.” Pretending they don’t exist, or have never existed, does not mean they do not and have not existed. That being said, classifying “natural-born” males with “natural-born” females in athletic competition might very well be a new human phenomenon. Either way, time will iron out the kinks (no double entendre intended) of this new endeavor. I know you don’t see it the way I do, but this too shall pass and I don’t see why parties on all sides of the issue are so caught up with it. We gonna be alright, Otto!
It’s not a human experience, nor a human phenomenon. This is an ideological driven agenda that seeks power at the expense of the nuclear family. It is being actively baked into society through law. As the present young generation reaches adulthood, we are going to have on our hands the worst mental health epidemic this country has ever seen.
This “movement” must be crushed, and crushed right now. It won’t “pass” as you say unless we force it to.
it’s very much a human experience. that’s why we’re (second-hand, not us personally) experiencing it. Maybe witnessing it is a better phrase. You’re a learned man and a stout defender of western civ. You know what the Greeks were up to.
Some get ol’ snowflake here a gigantic box of tissues. He’s either crying about trans people, or is secretly jacking off over them. Whatever the case, something needs mopping up.
Do you have kids?
All this nonsense from the sport that gives you the cross-step cut back(dumbest move in all of surfing).
I skipped down to comments but stopped when Eddie caught my eye and I thought well fuck she’s hot. Tricked again!
Come on Derek you trying to muddy the waters with all the incel boys with that picture of Eddie you know they think all trans women are big burly boy looking.
How about just one division (men/women/trans/alien, whatever) and ban leashes instead.
Why do they not refer to themselves as trans people or people of trans rather than gender specific in a binary sense of….. nah fuck it..I’m lost!…so confusing….poor cunts!
What does transphobic Taliban-level Christian fascist and paid role model to millions Bethany Hamilton have to say about the Mexilogfest trans ban?
Obviously a rhetorical question. I don’t think she’s afraid of mentally ill dudes wanting to surf in the women’s division. She’s not even afraid of sharks after getting her arm nipped off.
Your an idiot
Man hands.