Re: VFLW Rd 5: Carlton vs Darebin Falcons
Reply #38 –
The exact opposite really.
An entity can debate using any number of voices, but it won't improve their accuracy!
You can try and paint me however you like but you have no idea who you are corresponding with, what my background is or who I socialise with. You're just trying to make slurs instead of debating the issues, "Post Truth" era Internet mudslinging is not going to resolve this debate. Using those tactics is just exposing your own fears, prejudices and paranoias!
Zac Fisher, Alex Marcou, Greg Williams, Caleb Daniel, size is basically irrelevant in the issue. But if you want to discuss it, Zac Fisher is above the average size of an AFLW competitor yet not as big as the biggest, but he'd be stronger than the biggest of the girls, faster than the fastest, more aggressive than probably any. It would be completely inequitable to the competitors in the AFLW if any of the men listed above were allowed to play in the AFLW competition, no matter what size they are! Yet perhaps not in Mouncey's case! 
The girls would be intimidated playing against the men if the men competed to the limit of their physical ability and aggression, maybe Mouncey won't play as intensely as she potentially could, maybe Mouncey will dial it back, what then the integrity of the competition? Mickey Mouse might be a good description, why watch it, why even have it!
If by some stroke of bad luck Mouncey has a heavy collision with a fellow competitor, and that competitor is severely injured, regardless of Mouncey's welfare, size or gender identification, the competition will probably be compromised in the eyes of the general public! Minority demands and desires will have little or no impact on the political outcome or the major sponsors dollar.
As much as it would be nice for an inclusive ideology to win the day, what is to stop the AFLW teams actively recruiting transitioned East Germans, African Americans or West Indians, the world is available to clubs. Despite a lack of skills and experience, within a few seasons many of the local girls would be effectively become obsolete. Those debating the Moucney cause will claim that it will never happen, but they are burying their head in the sand.
I've even read one blog comment along the lines that foreigners wouldn't be accepted by the competition. What sort of counter-argument is that, the allegation is that the AFLW girls will band together and ostracize an import, they will never accept them, it's ironic that putting an import in conventry is suggested as a solution, at best it is discriminatory at worst xenophobic!
It won't happen, but it will once money is involved, best tell Mason Cox or Mike Pyke, the AFL already imports international athletes to compete with and against the experienced locals on far more equitable terms than transitioned men versus females!
Some argue the AFLW money is not enough of a reason, but arguing that just exposes an ignorance on the difficulty life and earning a living can be for a transitioned male, AFLW wages even at the current levels would appear to some transitioned males as a pot of gold!
Does Mouncey playing AFLW resolve any of her identity issues, is this what this whole debate is about?
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