Anyone starting up a CSC league?

Athletes are now categorised by hormone levels (over time) rather than their bits.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/ja...ut-surgery

Quote:Under the previous IOC guidelines, approved in 2003, athletes who transitioned from male to female or vice versa were required to have reassignment surgery followed by at least two years of hormone therapy in order to be eligible to compete.

Now, surgery will no longer be required, with female-to-male transgender athletes eligible to take part in men’s competitions “without restriction”.

Meanwhile, male-to-female transgender athletes will need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain cutoff point for at least one year before their first competition.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/de...y-comments

Is Jon Ralph a tosser or what??

Mark Latham's comments really sparked off some debate around our office today, it was quite interesting to listen to the results. Not defending Latham as he's a knob, but it has prompted a debate.

Note these are general observations specific to certain debates and not generalisations that can be broadly applied.

While there was a general consensus damning domestic violence, some glaring differences appeared between the genders on either sides of the debates about why and how. Some of the best points came from individuals who had been through separations, they seemed to center around manipulation versus negotiation.

Divorced men stated they felt helpless in a relationship, like their partner wasn't listening, all the odds were stacked in the females favor from a legal and social perspective, and that they were pawns being manipulated in a game that had a predetermined result. One guy said his former partner knew the answers to the questions, the opinions of friends and family, well before he even knew there was a problem.

Some females painted themselves as the oppressed victims of failed negotiations. They said they had wanted a good outcome but asserted they couldn't find a solution and the discussion(negotiation) ended badly.

In the end I realised I was possibly hearing arguments from different perspectives of the very same debate. What the females described as a negotiation the males described as manipulation.

What was very disturbing was a minority from both genders that can be best described as radical. There was clearly a small percentage that politicised the debate and painted all males as being abusive and all females as scheming.

Some men clearly admit to thinking of females in a possessive sense, some on religious grounds, they were a minority but they are deliberately displayed as being the norm by certain political factions.

Some women believe many victims of domestic violence contribute to it. They think some women believe men are easily manipulated and that they actively try put this into practice, more often than not it ends very badly.

I don't understand how this debate can proceed to a solution when it's not inclusive, certain parties are deliberately trying to find a solution that doesn't include the other. It's doomed to fail, the sides of the debate want the how but will not concede to a why, and they do not wish to treat each other as equals!

Cookie and I will be hoping this lives up to Bernard Cornwell's novels 

Another rock and roll legend has passed... I'm in shock I can't believe it..

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01...s-aged-66/

Will this ever stop.....

Glenn Frey passed away at 67.  No purer sound than all Eagles in full voice in concert. 

Just wont be the same again.  RIP Glenn Frey

Go Carol 

http://newsthump.com/2016/01/16/no-sanct...ialnetwork

I hope she did find a decent coffee!

If only it was true 

Sadly another has moved on...no doubt many of you will remember this guy... :'(

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/201...ead-at-74/

Hawks Premiership player, Coach of Hawthorn and West Coast and Prominent ABC commentator. Been sick for a while.