Living truth.
The trans in sport issue has burst back, front and center and right in time for the holiday season. A dinner table conversation sure to please. Days ago, a transgendered swimmer broke a school record in New Jersey. Megan Cortez-Fields beat all-comers to win the women’s 100-yard butterfly after racing on the men’s team last year.
Inspiring, certainly, though not to tennis great Martina Navratilova who took to the application formerly known as Twitter to declare, “Women’s sports is not the place for mediocre male athletes who compete as women. Period.”
Ouch.
Thankfully, our World Surf League finds itself on the correct side of history. Professional surfing at its highest level has one of the more inclusive policies. As Derek Rielly reported almost a year ago, “The WSL has opened the door to trans-women competing so long as they’ve been a gal for at least twelve months and their hormone levels are real low ie less than 5 nanomoles per liter continuously for the previous 12 months (biological men hover between 10 and 35, bio-gals under three), although the WSL won’t be doing the testing.”
But correct side of history?
Of course.
A British museum, you see, is relabeling its exhibitions of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, with she/her pronouns instead of previous he/him. Elagabalus ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD. She was married five times, four to women and once to a man. Cassius Dio, a senator and contemporary, wrote the young emperor was “bestowed in marriage and was termed wife, mistress and queen.
A museum spokesperson said it was “only polite and respectful to be sensitive to identifying pronouns for people in the past.”
Dr Shushma Malik, a Cambridge university classics professor, disagreed with the move and told the BBC:
“The historians we use to try and understand the life of Elagabalus are extremely hostile towards him, and therefore cannot be taken at face value. We don’t have any direct evidence from Elagabalus himself of his own words. There are many examples in Roman literature of times where effeminate language and words were used as a way of criticising or weakening a political figure. References to Elagabalus wearing makeup, wigs and removing body hair may have been written in order to undermine the unpopular emperor.”
Dr. Shushma Malik sounds un-awakened, however, and I don’t know how much attention we should pay, education be damned.
Which brings us back to the World Surf League and the correct side of history.
Huzzah.
David Lee Scales and I, anyhow, briefly discussed Elagabalus though, in all honesty, David Lee didn’t seem too interested. He did have great advice on how to win the Thanksgiving table over. I guarantee it will score you maximum points but you must listen.
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The other Girls look happy, so I guess all is well.
Stockholm syndrome.
I don’t know whether bring up one other person is proving the point that you think it is.
Meanwhile, the ICC goes Bang!
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This is nonsense. Read up on this from real sources and not woke revisionists ones. The truth is that this man was hated and they wrote about him as a woman to tarnish his reputation. Not long ago calling a man “woman” was the highest form of disrespect. This is why we have words like “p*ssy” for example. It is not trans as we know it today.
Also the Roman Empire went down when it went more liberal and when they abandoned the values they had that made them powerful. You have to read the official history however and not the twisted one you find today. The modern revisionists dont even tell you white people were slaves to the Ottoman Empire because according to them “only white people owned slaves”. Sad that we have such ideologues spreading ignorance and lies today.
I get where you are coming from but you gotta take a chill pill man. I studied Archaeology and my prof set off a controversy when he wrote a paper asking “who owns the past?” because the indigenous community was stymieing any research that didn’t seek to push the date of initial occupation back as far as possible, and certainly anything that did not support the narrative that the Indigenous people “cared for the land” (despite introducing dogs, burning down all the original vegetation, wiping out the megafauna, etc).
So yeah, this pervasive “woke” angle of judging the past based on current sentiments is the antithesis of the actual fields of history, archaeology, etc. Real historians are concerned with finding out what happened, not judging what happened.
The fall of Rome is usually attributed to getting too large, and Diocletian making the decision to have an Easter and Western Empire, plus successive invasions by Germanic tribes. I don’t see anything about it being “too liberal”, though there are of course many accounts of the Romans practising Pederasty, owning slaves and marrying off 12 year old girls.
Interesting. Is having gladiators fight each other to the death liberal or conservative?
What have the Romans ever done for us? 😀
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So good
The UFC is mostly conservative.
The civil unrest crowd is hardcore Antifa Lefties
And the Military-Industriam Complex is highly bipartisan.
Seems like there is enough fighting to go around.
It’s ok miss, you can write pussy without the asterisk.
Careful matey, saying the Roman Empire fell because of liberalism is anti-woke revisionism. Kinda just as bad as the woke revisionist brigade.
Nah, the highest form of disrespect is calling a man a cock sucker. Lots of those around these days.
In India, sister fucker is the most obscene of all insults. Worth filing away for telemarketers
I would make a snarky comment but don’t want to upset Negs. He seems sensitive of late.
Sit Boo Boo sit.
Ruff! Good dog!
What was that, the end of each episode of family ties?
It’s “sit Ubu sit” I remember it from Spin City, but family ties for sure… and a few others. Good times.
My Man juice hovers between 35, and 1,000,000 nanomuthfuckas.
#LIVELIKERICOCHETBITCHES
Wow, married five times by 18, an age most are only just learning to form thoughts into outrage nowadays.
My pronoun is Fucking Haole.
Well that’s funny. Mine is too!
Yours has several more gerunds between Fucking and Haole.
You should go with something that doesn’t relate to Hawaii in any way, shape, or form.
l’d like lecture you> NOT!