Update: he got bronze in the 200m. Truly, he has the power of god and anime on his side.
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I am in my 20s.
I love video games, anime, DND, knitting, Gunpla, and the color pink. Sometimes I post what I draw.
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but in a weirdly interesting way
the feeling i get is that a certain political side (guess which) is trying to turn this into an all out culture war, doing the whole defending traditional society thing, but the vast majority of the people seem to be more confused than incensed
all the memes or Facebook comments i see are more along the lines of "did she expect not to be punched in the face? at the olympics?", regarding Carini officially pulling out because she didn't want to get hurt, rather than attacking Khelif's gender. it's the media (which is either government-aligned or directly government-controlled) that seem to keep insisting on it
this country's a regressive shithole, that's for sure, but this particular frenzy is coming across as even more forced than usual. which makes it look even more stupid
beyond being, like, another absurd failure of basic journalism practices
I've spoken about this elsewhere, but I looked into the backgrounds of both boxers and was pretty impressed by Khelif's.
Imane Khelif grew up in a rural area in Algeria. She had to sell scrap metal to afford bus fare so that she could make it to training sessions in another town. Her own dad tried to keep her away from boxing because he did not think that it was an appropriate sport for women. Ironically, the cisgender woman that weirdos like JK Rowling are calling a man had to overcome all sorts of massive obstacles, including misogyny from her own dad, just to participate in her sport.
Angela Carini has a day job as a police officer. Both her parents are police officers as well. I'll let that speak for itself.
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