Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020OT/LE

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Outsports, an LGBTQ sports and activism blog owned by Vox Media, published the names of over 300 women athletes who stood their ground by signing a letter addressed to the National College Athletic Association Board of Governors asking for the preservation of women’s sports “without permission.”

While many of the signatories were “afraid of the backlash that they might get on social media of being labeled a transphobe or a hater” if their names were released, Outpost published screenshots of all of the names claiming that it was “in the public interest, because those who stand in favor of discrimination ought to be held accountable.”

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Just last week, Holcomb told The Federalist that some “activist organizations” would try “telling female athletes that they need to be silent.”

“Anytime you allow a biological male into their category and allow them to take away spots and push female athletes down in the rankings, that is discrimination against female athletes because Title IX was designed to give them those opportunities,” Holcomb said. “There’s a lot of loud activist organizations out there that are striving to tell the American public that this is the way that sports should look and telling female athletes that they need to be silent.”

The important thing about this is that the push for biological men in women's sports is the "trans" issue that has the least support among conservative democrats and independants. If we can't even win this one then the war is lost.

[–]rwkastenBring on the dancing horses[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Outsports is on SBN, no? Those blogs are independently operated by separate (groups of) people who are not direct Vox Media employees. They do share some of the ad revenue generated by their blogs, but Vox exerts little editorial influence over their content aside from a general "don't get us sued" terms of service agreement.

The typical blogmeister on SBN will be generically big-city liberal, but that's more due to the fact that the teams they're covering are based in the same big city they are based in. That said, the vast majority of the content on the biggest SBN blogs is produced by the users, and most of them have the same "no politics unless it relates directly to the team, keep the religion to a minimum, don't be a dick" content policy as was common a decade ago. Outsports is decidedly an outlier in that regard, and last I checked, it was one of the least popular SBN blogs because of that. Turns out most sports fans are more interested in what's happening with their teams and much less interested in whatever bullshit the LGBTQ+ people want to yell about today.

[–]WickedWitchOfTheWest 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Turns out most sports fans are more interested in what's happening with their teams and much less interested in whatever bullshit the LGBTQ+ people want to yell about today.

Well yeah, I would expect that the core audience for Outsports isn't sports fans at all.