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Dollars to donuts the same people posted comments on articles about trans athletes.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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you can become invested in a team or athlete. you can learn about the sport and its play and thus see the competition happening in real time. you can see people battling, people struggling against each other or against themselves. you can see people making a fool of themself, embarrassing themselves for those in the know for years to come. it takes full dedication to one topic for years and decades to play on a high professional level, which is very admirable. once you understand the sport you can trace back the dedication from the resulting play. it may make you feel things.
competitive sport is a struggle, and struggles are tense and exciting when you understand them. the prerequisite is understanding though. movies also explain their struggles, and when you understand or assume is when you feel things.
it becomes easier if you watch a sport you can play and grasp the difference between yourself and a professional athlete. basketball is my favorite for this because i know my skills are excellent passing and almost nothing else. i know how much time i've spent in the lab working on jumpers, free throws, and layups to still not have a good touch on the ball. then i see a player pass, shoot, dribble, cut, all almost flawlessly, and i can understand the gap between myself and them as skilled athletes. it's especially relevant to just go watch a shoot around. the worst three point shooter in the WNBA or NBA is a better three point shooter than anyone you've ever played against or with