The opening ceremony of the European Figure Skating Championship features an MTF that clearly can't ice skate

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[–]Wanderingthehalls 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was watching the woman who went to help him up. She doesn't make eye contact with him and she has a strained look on her face. I've helped people up who have fallen when skating and I always make eye contact and look at them with concern/say something nice/make a joke to diffuse embarrassment, depending on who they are/if they seem shaken/how I know they'll take a joke. There was none of that in her interaction with him. She just looked like she is acting under duress and doesn't really even want to touch him.

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

This is literally masturbation for him. No one wants to be near that.

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

Judging by the flags, she's a representative of the same country and likely felt duty bound. There may have even been some directive beforehand, since it must have been obvious to everyone that this man was going to fuck up.

I would really have preferred that everyone ignore him and go about their business, rather than going out of their way and disrupting their own routine to physically lift him up. It really is analagous to the trans movment as a whole.