Mueller Time, baby! This time someone in authority is going to actually arrest and imprison some rich asshole, for real! We promise! Look at these memes!!!
Sure, but maybe she could get money for damages. Apparently she was living in poverty prior to the Olympics, like a lot of other Olympians from developing countries. Having to do sex work or rely on money from their family and community is pretty common, unfortunately.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Yeah, people are acting like this is up to chance - rich people throw money at their problems, and so long as someone is willing to spend their time catching it instead of doing their job, it works. It's going to work. The 5 year sentence is for poor people they want to get rid of, not for rich people they want to profit from.
I don't think there is anything false with what they said, it's just stating the punishment for the crime. Now, whether those punishments actually happen is the question.
I wish Joanne had gone the Enya route and finished Harry Potter and the Writing Quality of Diminishing Returns, disappeared with her wealth into the highlands, did some occasional projects, and just never spoke again. Maybe some occasional rumors would pop up about her having a panda ranch that she kept for demolition derbys or something weird. She can go suck a railroad spike.
Seriously. She has been such a massive disappointment. The fact that she feels like she has to be actively hateful, makes it all the worse. Just shut the help up and enjoy your gobs and gobs of money.
I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but what is it she has actually done? Every time I've asked people seem to spout off how she's pure evil, said evil things, and then backed it up with nothing. The only thing I think I've ever seen from her is that she wants to protect woman.
Literally, they don't produce anything. They would probably accumulate more wealth while in prison. In my ideal society the judge would hit them for a percentage of their net worth.
Honestly, I couldn't understand why people called her a TERF for the longest time, I figured she was just a TEF. But her outburst calling this "the new men's rights movement" has me understanding now. With that said, meh. But maybe I've grown up around too many crazy people for it to register any more.
Not really. Other than the perpetually online, a majority of people believe that trans identities in women's sports is wrong. I don't know how to fix that perception, but it's a pretty common viewpoint.
Being trans-exclusionary everywhere ELSE absolutely, you would be considered a radical.
But before "Gender Identity" even became a thing, sports had some pretty simple rules: If you take substances to modify your body, then you're excluded from competition.
Unfortunately, that's the primary basis of gender identity nowadays, so it's a natural consequence. Notice that the problem never really even gets discussed in men's sports (except by reactionaries) -- because there being any kind of physical advantage in the male category is negligible at best.
I think the R is also because she posts all the fucking time about it. I assumed she had some dumb reactionary views but wasn't quite sure why that was so newsworthy (I'm sure lots of people have dumb reactionary views, esp the ultra wealthy). But she literally posts all day every day about it, it's fucking bonkers.