• egg1918 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I feel so terrible for the poor woman that won. She’s at the fucking Olympics after coming from rural Algeria. I can’t even imagine how hard she’s worked to get there and now she has to deal with all this

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Yeah I read a bit about her, how she grew up in desperate poverty but wanted to be a boxer. She would sell scrap metal as a teenager to have bus fare to go train in the next town over.

      Like it’s sports movie stuff. She’s a genuine miracle story and now instead of celebrating her athletic achievement and motivation, she’s an object to spread transphobia even though she’s a cis woman.

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        Like it’s sports movie stuff. She’s a genuine miracle story and now instead of celebrating her athletic achievement and motivation, she’s an object to spread transphobia even though she’s a cis woman.

        This is part of the movie where her rivals start making shit up because they’re sore fucking losers. But she owned that Italian. She owned that Hungarian. Just one more W from getting gold.