Your thinly veiled bigotry is still just bigotry, despite hiding it behind a strawman
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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If we count retired athletes and Olympic sports then I can just barely get there:
So now I get to talk about trans women in sports!
Um... yeah. I don't know. Whatever the solution is, I think it should be handled with empathy and respect for trans rights.
I honestly just know 4 of those. Hmmm
I don't follow sports at all and am not from the USA but I only know Serena Williams.
You don't know Kerrigan, the Queen of the Blades?
No, I have never heard of her.
Queen of the blades? That sounds like some B list super hero or villain, lol.
P.S. after reading the list again, I also recognized Anna. I believe that she is/was a chess player.
Close. She's a villanous character from the video game Starcraft. Her title "Queen of the Blades" never made sense to me, until I learnt she was named after the figure skater.
Venus is her sister
Which four?
The Williams sisters are obvious.
Kournikova, Strug, Kerrigan, and Harding I know just from having grown up in America in the 90s. They were all very famous for very, very different reasons.
Clark is super famous right now, as is Biles. Biles is more famous by me because she's from my home city. Ledecky I know because my family follows Olympic swimming. Kwan's name just stuck in my brain for some reason.
If I had to think of an eleventh athlete, it'd take me a while. There's another gymnast I could come up with, I'm sure. That really old one.
For me it was Williams, kurnikova and biles.