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139 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Mar \ parent \ on: Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events by new IOC policy Stacker_Sports

We were told, but only by a small minority of extremely loud voices. I don't think the idea of biological men competing in women's sports was ever popular.

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116 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar

That's my point actually. The vast majority just go along to get along until they are forced to think about things or something like an election exposes widespread sentiment. The signal shifted. Is a better way to phrase it probably.

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163 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Mar

It still feels weird. A tiny fraction of voices was able to scare our leaders into publicly denying biological realities. It took years of the majority shouting "we don't like this" to get them to go back to the common sense position. The asymmetry is strange, but I'm not exactly sure what it signifies.

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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Mar

frankly insane...

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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar

That's just it... the majority was not shouting for years. I still don't think they are. The majority might not like it but they sure aren't shouting.

It doesn't take a majority. A loud group can get a reaction.

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67 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 28 Mar

It is exceedingly rare for a corporation or org like the IOC to do anything that would be overtly against the masses. They do little things and people in them are a different story but this is yet another signal.

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97 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Mar

In this case I think it was the extreme ugliness of that women’s boxing incident.

If it had just been dudes winning a few medals, rather than a dude beating the shit out of a bunch of women, they would have kept going.

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