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
