It's a little bit cliché to bring up the speedrunning-tranny dichotomy, but I lost my shit when I saw this. It was brought up in the
Speedrunning community watch thread but it comes complete with five hilarious characters, thought I'd share it here and give it a proper post.
speedrun.com, the premiere place to host leaderboards in the hobby, is under new administration. They implemented a "pronoun" feature which is pretty much expected (begrudgingly) nowadays, but one thing these guys have been doing is featured articles on the side of the site. Last week, they were promoting black speedrunners - cool. This week, they ran an article on
"Four women in Speedrunning". Awesome - this is a super male-dominated hobby so I can't wait to check out these four female speedrunners and show some support!
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Now, it's 2021 of course, so I fully expect one of these lovely ladies to probably be trans. Just being realistic here - in a community famous for its trans demographic + they want to push an agenda of "trans women are women" means they will definitely put one TiM out of four in here. Let's take a look.
The first is named "t0uchan", and they give a link to their
Twitch channel which itself hosts links to their social media.
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Well, I fully expected a TiM in this list. I suppose they knocked it out on the first one so no one would complain. Who else is here? Surely, no more men on this list celebrating women, right?
Let's check out our second True and Honest Woman, amethyst_rocks:
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Hmm, not my cup of tea, but "queer" doesn't automatically mean "trans"-
So far, 50% of the women in this article about women are men. So surely #3 will actually be a woman, right?
#3 is Lizstar, who was the person in the picture accompanying the news article. Lizstar is a name that I
recognize!
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Surely, SURELY that's it, right? 3/4 women on this list are men, so the last one should be a fucking woman. Don't tell me they couldn't find one fucking woman in this community.
Let's check out "ShesChardcore".
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Well i certainly feel for you suffering with Parkinson's disease, and while he doesn't broadcast his trans status, he doesn't seem to be getting on too well with appearences.
But you're kidding me. You run an article intending to highlight women in this heavily male-dominated hobby, and you don't feature a single fucking woman. Who wrote this article?
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Yup.
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