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minus-squaredoublepepperoni [none/use name]hexbear41·3 years agoFrom what I understand, jokes about the DDR's female weightlifters used to be incredibly common link
minus-squareaxont [she/her, comrade/them]hexbear43·3 years agoAll women from socialist nations are presented as either comically masculine or femme fatale secret agents. link
minus-squaredoublepepperoni [none/use name]hexbear18·edit-23 years agoI also heard tales of the sinister communist DDR government forcing their female athletes to take experimental male hormones link
minus-squarePezevenk [he/him]hexbear17·edit-23 years agoYeah but that actually kind of happened except other countries also did it and still do it which is why elite sports suck. link
minus-squaredoublepepperoni [none/use name]hexbear3·edit-23 years agoIt was specifically framed as a shady commie thing instead of a shady doping thing by the people talking about it link
minus-squarePezevenk [he/him]hexbear2·edit-23 years agoExcept Lance Armstrong is just the one guy who was dumb and reckless enough to get caught (and also was a massive asshole about it), almost everyone else also did it to different extents. link
minus-squarePezevenk [he/him]hexbear1·3 years ago , if the USSR and China are doping Oh they very much were (and are, in the case of China) lol then why aren’t they literally destroying every sport relentlessly Because the others are doping too, although they are kind of destroying certain sports pretty consistently. link
From what I understand, jokes about the DDR's female weightlifters used to be incredibly common
All women from socialist nations are presented as either comically masculine or femme fatale secret agents.
I also heard tales of the sinister communist DDR government forcing their female athletes to take experimental male hormones
Yeah but that actually kind of happened except other countries also did it and still do it which is why elite sports suck.
It was specifically framed as a shady commie thing instead of a shady doping thing by the people talking about it
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Except Lance Armstrong is just the one guy who was dumb and reckless enough to get caught (and also was a massive asshole about it), almost everyone else also did it to different extents.
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Oh they very much were (and are, in the case of China) lol
Because the others are doping too, although they are kind of destroying certain sports pretty consistently.