Oliver Brown being sly in the Telegraph:
Valentina Petrillo, the Italian father-of-two who qualified on Friday for a second semi-final of these Paris Paralympics in women’s sprinting, has hit back at being called an “out-and-proud cheat” by author JK Rowling, saying: “I’ve never even read Harry Potter.”
Nicely done. The father-of-two in women’s sprinting, who retorts to criticism with a fatuous irrelevance.
Despite the backlash, Petrillo claimed: “There is so much transphobia in all this. The most important word in Olympic and Paralympic sports is inclusion.”
No it isn’t. Of course it isn’t. How could it be? Sports are about competition, which means there are losers along with winners, and in fact there are far more losers than winners. At any rate what he means by “inclusion” is, of course, allowing men like him to compete against women…but only one or two at a time. He doesn’t want inclusion of all the men, of course, because then he would lose. He wants “inclusion” of a very small number of cheaters like him so that he can win. For now, he’s getting exactly what he wants, to the dismay and disgust of people who have any sense.
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12 responses to “The most important word”
I don’t know if this is my computer, Patreon, or something else, but when I click through the articles, all I get are the most recent three; they repeat over and over. Has anyone else had this experience?
Yes, me too. Endless loop.
That’s it in a nutshell, OB.
@iknklast Not your computer, not Patreon either, I imagine, but the backlink from the post “Guest post: Compare and contrast” is wrongly pointing at the most recent post, while it should point at the post “Legal action over telling the truth” instead. I hadn’t noticed, because I go to the summary page and move on from there, and that works just fine.
He knows damn well the word is “winning” and he’s definitely doing that…
Yeah in his case it’s “cheating.”
So he’d be fine with Julien Alfred, Tia Clayton, or Sha’Carri Richardson being “included”? I doubt that very much.
In every endeavour, inclusion stops at some point. Cows are excluded from the Melbourne Cup, while the Mount Compass Cup is exclusively for Cows, not Thoroughbreds.
iknklast what do you mean “click through the articles”? I’m not having any problem opening them.
Ophelia, the ‘looping’ problem has apparently fixed itself, probably when you added the sundown cities post (using the previous post links at the top took us to the hairdo post, then the guest post of my comment (thank you, by the way), then back to this post. Oddly, though, the guest post is appearing two posts before this one and the original first two comments on this post – mine that you made the guest post followed by yours announcing the guest post, have vanished. It looks as though some spooky time travel is going on, with a guest post appearing before the post it was taken from.
Well how odd. I don’t even know how to time travel, dang it.
Ah, but maybe I do.
*waggles eyebrows*