I try to be helpful, and people would rather complain and stick to their political side. They'll ignore everything you actually say so they can continue to air their hallucinations in the most clueless way possible.
On a post arguing against boys in girls' sports and on girls' teams, I made the suggestion:
"If they divided sports by strength, weight, and ability it would probably still work and be safe for girls. You'd have weak, scrawny boys on the same team with strong, capable girls. Regular guys would just be on teams with other guys."
Immediately I was swarmed by people telling me that males are inherently stronger, even the weak ones. That because of their weight, they'd have an advantage, and boys have more athletic ability, no matter anything else, because they are male.
One even decided this was his chance to embrace the "Televangelists' Deflection" for some bizarre reason.
Everyone was studiously missing the entire point I was making and the words I had written ("strength, weight, and ability") because they just wanted to keep hammering their bad point to death, parroting what they'd been trained to say.
One person did finally catch on. Even after he figured it out, that if you based divisions on "strength, weight, and ability" you'd end up with "girls' teams" again, without using words that toxic people want to quibble over.
Everyone else just kept wanting to argue that, even with divisions based on "strength, weight, and ability", the boys in a league would be stronger, bigger, weigh more, and have more ability.
Sigh. So dumb.
And that is the thought that keeps echoing in my mind: Can they really be this dumb?
I suppose it's an Unfortunate Truth. Or two.
