I fucking hate this kind of people, I’m sorry, but I do. My country is full of them, this is literally the default here…
Save meeee, I wanna go to the Netherlands or some place 😭

  • rumba ( rumba@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Kid gender ideology is capitalism trying to get everyone to buy colors of toys/clothes for one kid with a 50% chance of them not wanting to reuse them for the second kid.

    A mother at our bus stop rolled out a 1 yr old in a pink pusher car apolegitcally saying they were going to get their aunt to get him a red one this week.

    1. it’s not really an issue pushing a boy around in a ping car

    2. if you can’t deal, there is always spraypaint.

    • Refract ( Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ) 
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      My son has a big sister, you can bet your ass he’s pushed around in a pink / purple fairy covered car while wearing pink socks. Idiot parents throwing money out the window because of fucking colours.

    • That woman knows not the glories of Rome, for it was pink that marked a legion as having earned glories and not the untested red they matched with first. A vexillum still stands yet fools are blinded to the glories of Rome!

      Also pink is a very safe color, it pops to the human eyes due to being relatively rare in nature unlike red or blue. Frankly more safety vests need to be made pink and thinned skinned morons forced to deal with it.

  • I am cisfem, I wrestled for 6 years ending my junior year after copious amounts of harassment and a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against one of my coaches. Fun! We moved around a lot so I experienced a lot of attitudes around it. Not all bad, some of my coaches were super into having me, one was having a baby daughter with his wife and followed my career to the end! I’m sure she knows all about me!

    These days there are girl’s programs for that all over the place, but back then my choice was to be on a boy’s team or, if offered (never was) gymnastics was supposed to be a physically equivalent sport if the school had both, so had I gone somewhere big with both gymnastics and wrestling I could have never gone nearly to state in wrestling and been offered tryouts for the olympics.

    I didn’t place well enough, because I come from a shitty country that trains people in yokel wrestling and not what they do everywhere else, but that’s not the point. I didn’t want to do gymnastics, I’m not coordinated. I have no interest in something where I can fall and hurt myself, other than climbing trees and short buildings. I’d never have been good enough to try out for the olympics as a gymnast. Most of my wins were mat technique or pins, and I created a cradle nobody could mimic or get out of if they got into it, because they were too lanky to have leverage, because they were adolescent boys, I had flexibility and “stopped growing at 12 and started training” short girl muscle.

    Thanks for letting me rave about my long past history :)

    • Ginny [they/she] ( svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Firstly, I’m very sorry to hear about the harassment you received. That shit sucks.

      Secondly, I’d be very interested to hear more about what you meant by your country not teaching modern wrestling. (I assume we’re talking freestyle rather than Greco-Roman?) Has it really changed that much?

      • The US does folkstyle throughout non-college school years, rather than either of the forms of wrestling that are done in olympics. Its just an entirely different system. If you want to learn freestyle to be internationally competitive or wrestle for colleges, you have to spend a ton of money on camps and stuff to learn.

        • tigeruppercut ( tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) 
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          The US does folkstyle throughout non-college school years

          The main US wrestling for guys in college is also still folkstyle. Back awhile ago you could find freestyle tournaments but they weren’t official college matches, although they’re probably more popular/widespread now. Never knew anyone who wrestled greco though.

          If women these days wrestle in college under freestyle I wonder if there’ll be a push to get a men’s league as well. Seems a little silly to be the only country that does non-olympic wrestling, or at least with a wrestling that’s pretty damn close to freestyle. I know plenty of other forms of wrestling exist (like ssireum, Mongolian wrestling, sumo, etc) but they’re at least not terribly close to the Olympics.

          • Oh I have no idea what college-level uses, or if its the same between mens and womens divisions. I assume it is, since women’s programs aren’t terribly widespread even now (frankly even men’s wrestling isn’t big at the college level, most schools don’t offer it at all in my experience). It makes sense I guess that it’s still folk, but I’d just assumed it was freestyle cuz the one college I looked at with a wrestling program was freestyle. Might have just been club activities though, this was decades back by now. But yeah I also found it rather odd that we set ourselves up for failure that way.

            I had a friend who did greco for a while, huge tank of a dude. Fun to watch but never wanted to try myself.

            • tigeruppercut ( tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) 
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              I was just surprised because the wikipedia freestyle wrestling article mentioned that the WCWA wrestled freestyle. As far as I can see the men’s divisions still wrestle folk. I think wrestling popularity in general is regional though. I wrestled in a small division and we had to travel pretty far to get to tournaments all the time, but the NCAA is pretty huge and wrestling at least in the midwest is massive I think.

  • OnyxRex ( OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    I wouldn’t go as far as to say I hated sports as a penis-haver, but they did always put me to sleep. They were boring and then the adults would scream at the TV for something or another and wake me up from my snooze. Why do I want to watch a bunch of blurs run around a field be narrated by two old guys? or a bunch of cars going in circles narrated by two old guys?

    I still don’t get it. Dad took me to a baseball game once and all I can remember is the drunk old lady yelling at the players from right behind me.

  • Penis=child will be forced into football causing much pain and suffering in the chance they’ll be able to get a multi-million contract to get concussions on live tv.

    Vagina=child will be starved and forced to wear shoes that are extremely painful and dance for someone else’s visual enjoyment. The dance can also be damaging to the body.

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    They really forced gender based division when I was a kid, elder millennial. I’ve noticed it’s ingrained in most people my age. It took me forever to get my husband to wear pink, as an example.

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    This one’s doubly weird, since there’s a long tradition of American football players taking ballet or dance classes to help with footwork, flexibility, and timing.