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fun fact: even if she didn’t compete against that trans swimmer she still would have gotten fifth (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 hours ago by MooseWinooski@lemmy.ca to c/transmemes
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https://thehardtimes.net/blog/we-sat-down-with-anti-trans-swimmer-riley-gaines-to-find-out-what-other-sports-she-fucking-sucks-at/

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 2 hours ago

Riley Gains is an ironic name for someone who loses so much

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Fucking brutal \m/

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago

There you have it. She interviews about as well as she swims. We didn’t get an answer to our question, but we can safely assume Riley sucks shit at every other sport she’s ever played.

This is really fine work.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 80 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

She doesn’t care about trans people. She was initially supportive, but shifted to extreme rhetoric when faced with truckbeds filled with money to act like a bigot on tv. If anything, that’s actually worse.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 44 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Not good enough to podium and it's all the fault of a trans person that was equally not good enough to podium. /s

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Threw off her swim mojo. Definitely not because she's the 5th best swimmer in that group.

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 15 points 6 hours ago

Was this the same swimmer that John Oliver talked about in his trans athletes episode?

[-] purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 hours ago

The very same. :)

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

The same Riley Gaines who sucks at swimming? The Riley Gaines who is a transphobic piece of shit? That Riley Gaines?

[-] purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 minutes ago

That one, indeed. 🙂‍↕️

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 points 5 hours ago

Here's a neat podcast about that.

She really does suck tho, lol.

The ending is also pretty great. It turns out being good at a sport is completely decoupled from gender, and no one knows what makes people good.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 hour ago

Four of the fastest female swimmers in the world, from left to right: Simone Manuel, Summer McIntosh, Kate Douglass, and Katie Ledecky. We wanted to include Riley Gaines, but she wasn’t fast enough :( sad!

😘👌🏼😆

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