Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by free_rms on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:10PM (#23241883)

Have you ever been an athlete in a serious way? Honest question. If people who've competed or deeply cared about sports seem to all get hung up on this, maybe they're seeing something you're not?

Your two issues are issues because, even without any prejudice, there are physical differences that we have to handle and it's not easy to figure out how to be fair to all parties.

In the case we're talking about, for example, the trans women fractured a woman's skull. Broke her skull. Was the skull the problem here? Should it have been less breakable to match the rhetoric?

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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by abqio on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:16AM (#23243509)

It's important to make a distinction here. One that Rogan fails to make in his comments.

Fox fractured her opponent's orbital. This is a facial fracture, not a skull fracture. Skull fractures are life threatening whereas facial fractures generally are not.

There is a large discrepancy in the force required to cause a facial vs skull fracture as well.

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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by slg on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:17PM (#23241935)

Yes, I have been heavily involved in high level athletics.

MMA is a violent sport. There are risks to anyone participating in it. If you are seriously worried about protecting athletes, there should be more widespread changes than just eliminating the handful of transgender athletes because I guarantee the majority of injuries occur in matches between two cisgender athletes.

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