Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)

Post by mariushn » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 2:44 AM UTC

api wrote: post #249

Liquix wrote: post #230

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Precisely - the medium is the message. Books are slow, deliberate, require imagination and attention. Seven second tiktok videos are the opposite. The method by which we consume the information impacts us just as much if not more than its content.

I've started reading more books (again) lately and the depth of character development and ideas in long form fiction is striking compared to even most long-form TV and films, let alone short attention span social media slop. (... and the best long-form TV and films are often based on books ...) You can really get deep into characters' heads, their motivations, etc. The more I read the more I feel like it makes me a b…

Could you please recommend a few such books? Thanks!

Post by fiffled » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:12 AM UTC

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fiffled wrote: post #297

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The actual issue was that this athlete, Imane Khelif, is male. And was competing in a women's boxing match, despite having previously been deemed ineligible by the International Boxing Association for this reason, after a karyotype test revealed XY chromosomes. The problem is that women's boxing in the Olympics doesn't verify sex other than via identity documents such as passports. Even though the other categorical a…

I would like to reiterate that, like I said, people were specifically spreading the misinformation that she was a trans person that was allowed to compete only under some new policies coming from their political enemies- as part of a broader movement and large group of people that spread anti-trans hate online. In this context, hardly anyone would care about this if not fueled by an anti-trans political movement that…

Some underinformed people weren't cognisant of the exact details, and assumed because Khelif is a male competing in the women's division, that this implies Khelif has a transgender identity. When in fact, Khelif described accusations of this as "a big shame for my family, for the honor of my family, for the honor of Algeria, for the women of Algeria and especially the Arab world."

Nonetheless, the main reason that people opposed Khelif (and Lin) competing in women's boxing is precisely the same reason as to oppose transwomen competing in women's sports: because they are male.

So while for some Twitter users the exact details may have been wrong, the underlying principle was the same. That is, fairness and safety for female athletes.

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