Burn the boats

goddd I’m SUCH a sucker for fics where they’re together but shane assumes ilya hasn’t stopped fucking other people. and this misunderstanding continues because they never talk about anything real ever. because they are both too afraid that if they talk or fight or whatever it’ll reveal that they care more than the other person does

i don’t feel like debating that topic much farther bc truthfully if it comes down to “women will lose to men in every sport bc they don’t have as much testosterone!!!!!” my elite feminist response is honest to god “ok we will lose with honor as equals instead of having our own special Easy Mode Female category so we can win amongst ourselves” like i’m sorry i just can’t be persuaded. i’m a brick wall. i want co-ed sports

i bring a sort of “women can lose at some sports against men if it means being regarded as equals” vibe to the debate that “testosterone objectively increases performance” people don’t really like

This must be raige bait, but it's such a male-gaze vision of women's sports. You care so much about men's opinion that your take is not to give dignity and importance to women's sports, but to make women compete in sports designed for men (like every other fucking thing in society is, from the structure to the work day to the fucking air conditioning temperature in public places) and what? Work harder to beat them? Work harder to be at their level? I don't want women to work harder to prove something to men, it's all we've always done, I want women to compete in sports made for them, with fields and nets and everything else made for their height, weight, body structure etc. The idea that saying that a woman is on average is shorter than a man, or slower, is derogatory or humiliating, is mysoginistic in itself because there's nothing wrong in being slower than someone else, for example, it's only wrong if you think that the ideal person is a fucking man. Equity and equality are two very different things and the only way to be strong and independent is equity. You're not rebellious if you put averagely shorter women in front of averagely taller men, with a net that's at their level, and push women to do something more. It's such a mysoginistic take. The only way you can prove yourself worthy, is to compete with men. Fuck no.