This is one of the conspiracy theories I believe in.

Most tech workers buy lunch in their local area. If they wfh, they’ll make lunch and not spend money. Meaning less commerce in the city… Makes city look bad.

Also, if you’re coming to said city, if you can choose to live 2 hours north, suddenly that choice looks terrible from a quality of life pov. You’ll likely rent/buy a place in said city. Keeping real estate values higher. (This is another value that benefits both govt and company since they so big they own the majority of buildings they use)

Source: am tech worker at a big river company

Insurance companies can’t match real estate prices of the office buildings they own AND the tax incentives large cities are giving them to force their ppl back

I used to very frequently. (For about 3-4 months, 5-7x a week)

Don’t anymore. Wish I did

Apologies I meant the person you were originally replying to. I can see it being ambiguous.

I agree with you, this argument is dumb, sexist, and not fair.

I’m just saying this is just not a good forum to handle it.

Fyi I don’t agree with the previous commenters ideology about two separate classes for women.

I however agree that we can’t discuss this rationally today because social media (including lemmee) is a terrible forum for this discussion, because, unfortunately, a person who is AFAB and has a DSD, or other naturally occurring condition, which gives them more or less testosterone/lactic acid/something else than the typical woman, and thus an advantage, gets conflated with having a trans woman compete, because then the people who feel strongly about trans people on both sides come out of the wood work and start yelling…

And then everyone gets pissed and/or understandardly triggered and nothing can be argued.

By naturally occurring I mean w/o the use of drugs/doping/surgery. Which in my understanding is what’s the case with the boxer.

I don’t post this to argue or convince. Just clarify what I think they’re trying to say.

I won’t respond to the “are they female”/“what to do” debate, only that this forum is terrible to have these debates.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk/soap box lecture