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Striker's Corner

@strikeromega

30% art, 10% created content, 60% reblogs about mostly video games, wrestling, and other nerd junk. Sorry.
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Reading about how intersex athletes have been treated is so fucking horrible. The countless lies and human rights violations. The discrimination and how it’s ruined the lives of so many people is so awful. There has been no apologies from any athletics comptetions or organizations. They have blood on their hands. Just a tw for intersexism and mental health issues and suicide in the next paragraph because it can get pretty heavy.

Annet Negesa, who was a middle distance runner. She was suddenly barred from competing due to her hormones. No one told her why. She was then told she needed to take medication to lower her testosterone, then what she was told was switched. She was lied to about a surgery that she was told was like an injection and would let her compete again. She woke up with scars and had had a gonadectomy. That violation of basic human rights and medical ethics combined with inadequate postsurgical care basically ended her career. She deserves justice. She deserves apologies from the Olympics and everyone single doctor who was involved in it, and compensation and the promise that it should never have happened and will never happen again. She. Needs. Justice.

Pratima Gaonkar needs justice. She was a rising track and field star. After forced sex verificatiom she killed herself. The way media and news treated her after her death was disgusting. She deserves and needs justice. Her family deserves justice.

Santhi Soundarajan had her medals stripped and was treated as an outcast after forced sex verification showed she had androgen insensitivity syndrome. She was treated as an outcast, her gender was mocked. She’s spoken out about how much discrimination she’s faced, and how badly she’s been treated. She now works as a coach, but was barred from competing. She deserves justice.

Caster Semenya deserves justice. Francine Niyonsaba deserves justice. Margaret Wambui deserves justice. Barbra Banda deserves justice. Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma deserve justice.

The racism and intersexism and horrible human rights violations and medical abuse these women have faced for the supposed crime of being intersex and good at a sport is horrible. They deserve justice, but the organizations that perpetuate these atrocities don’t seem to care. It’s so fucking horrible.

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Welp

Guess I’ll be updating my shit around here sometime soon. We’ll see.

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crazy how India can have the largest labor strike in world history and it doesn't even make the news in the US. it's almost like they don't want us to know we can demand better working conditions

250,000,000 people participated in India

For reference that'd be ~75% of the US population

That many people working together for fair labor laws

And most of the western world hasn't even heard about it

1 out of every 30 people in the entire WORLD participated in this strike and you haven't heard about it

4x more people participated than the number of people in the world who have tested positive for covid and you haven't heard about it

This should be a massive story. Why haven't you heard about it? Theres a very specific reason.

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Companion piece of that one drawing I did of Mika as a kid. Eventually I decided it was a good idea to edit in the kanabo I drew on the other one–I meant for it to look closer, and I wanted to establish scale for the differences in her height from her look as a youngster and what she looked like later.

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I'm going to vote blue, as I have for the last 20 years. Doesn't it fucking suck to have to vote for this asshat though? The man isn't even on board w/ the majority of the policies I support but he's the only hope to not have another 4 years of conservative asf judges & supreme court appointments. Isn't it a shitty situation we've been put in by the party? Shouldn't I be allowed to be angry and annoyed at having to vote for the guy who can barely string a sentence together?

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Biden isn’t Elizabeth Warren, who was my first choice. Or Kamala Harris or Cory Booker, who were my second and third choices. He isn’t Bernie, who was my first choice in 2016.

But he’s my choice now, and he is the candidate who stands between us and full-blown Fascism in America. So that’s a *profoundly* motivating circumstance, that gets me excited to work the phones, canvass, volunteer, donate, and do *everything* I can to get him elected.

And I get to be disappointed, and even pissed off that the woman I wanted for president, from the most diverse field of candidates in the party’s history, was passed over for Yet Another Old White Man. And he’s a TERRIBLE campaigner. That said, his policy positions are pretty good, and very likely the best we can realistically get right now, given the gerrymandering and minority rule the Republicans enjoy all over the country. Seriously, check them out if you haven’t. There are *real* and *meaningful* differences between Biden and Trump, and Biden’s policies are even more progressive than a lot of Obama’s. We’re not talking full-on Democratic Socialist revolution, but we’re holding the Overton Window steady, and slowly moving it back to the Left. 

Your feelings are ALWAYS valid, and it’s entirely reasonable to be mad that the person you wanted wasn’t the choice of the majority in the party. That’s totally okay. 

What’s not okay is anyone who identifies as a Progressive having a tantrum and passively or actively allowing Trump and his Fascist supporters to have another four years to finish their capture and destruction of our country, because Biden isn’t their first choice.

There’s a great analogy about general elections being like bus routes. You don’t wait in the pouring rain for the bus that takes you directly to your door, you get in the bus that’s going to get you as *close* to your door as possible, while immediately getting you out of the rain. 

Thanks for your question.

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