Quickies
Quickies: Transwoman StarCraft champ, Janet Mock, and women Olympians
- Trans activist Janet Mock outclasses Piers Morgan, earns herself hero status – Not that it’s hard to outclass a man who cries “cisphobia” but damn, I love Janet Mock so much. From Donna.
- How a transgender “foreign hope” is challenging the pro StarCraft world – “As fans clamor for a player to upset South Korean dominance, Scarlett’s sweet success is testing just how much this tight-knit community is willing to challenge the established order of their world.” From Eric.
- Answers for creationists – Phil Plait responds to the “22 messages from creationists” list that’s been going around.
- 15 female athletes you should know at the Sochi Olympics – What’s your favorite event to watch? Women’s hockey is one of mine.
- Cute Animal Friday! How could you not love a bucket of lion cubs? If you’re a sucker for interspecies animal friendships, you’ll love these dogs, chickens, goats, capybara, turtles, etc.
I like races and speed. So downhill skiing, luge, speed skating. All with great womens competitors. Looking forward to seeing womens ski jumping this year!
Speed skating can be mesmerizing to watch. And it’s about time women’s ski jumping was in the Olympics!
I thought the logic of the opponents rather interesting. Basically it was ‘women shouldn’t be throwing themselves of high mountains’. Well that part seems logical enough. But what part of that argument would not apply equally to men?
Who was the first idiot to take up the ski jumping thing anyhow? Did they just build a 100ft jump and then wait for someone to go down it?
I feel that way about a lot of sports, but boy are they fun to watch!
On the answers to creationists, I find it a bit ironic that creationists are some of the only people, apparently, who are unaware that we DIDN’T descend from monkeys.
(Or at least not present-day monkeys and rather share a common ancestor who wasn’t a human or a monkey)
My favorite was a Learning Channel (Who else?) special which set up the two chimpanzee species as putative ancestors of us, and had bonobos being the ‘feminist’ example and conventional chimps being the ‘patriarchal’ example. Leaving aside that human behavior doesn’t fit into nice binaries, much less the behavior or other primates, we’re likely the out group of that particular phylogenetic tree.
I do wonder how Koreans specifically react to Scarlett. There’s a strong streak of conservatism about gender or sexuality running through Korean culture. Other than that, I was surprised at how well-written that Starcraft piece was.