Gay Man Pretends Not To Know What A Man Is

George Takei takes a stab at Riley Gaines, gets ratio'd

Actor George Takei, most famous for his role as Sulu on Star Trek, took a swipe at swimmer Riley Gaines on Twitter/X yesterday. (Don’t fight me, nobody is actually calling it ‘X’.) Linking to an article, “Anti-Trans Swimmer Slammed After Causing Trans Teen To Lose Volleyball Scholarship,” hosted at someone’s crappy blog, Takei participated in the societal gaslighting of female athletes on behalf of cheating males. It did not go well for him.

Several replies, and a Riley Gaines quote tweet, have all outshined his original post (OP). “Oh no! An actual woman will receive a women's scholarship!!! How devastating! A win for women, equal opportunity, and reality,” Gaines wrote, receiving more than three times as many ‘likes’ as Takei despite having only a quarter of his following. It is a sign of how much the American conversation has changed in just the last year.

A few hours after the kerfuffle began, I replied to Takei with a standard take that I have already tweeted at him a dozen times:…