What The Riley Gaines-Simone Biles Skirmish Reveals About The Crisis Of Masculinity
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What The Riley Gaines-Simone Biles Skirmish Reveals About The Crisis Of Masculinity

True masculinity is dangerous on purpose, but disciplined by love.

Gates Garcia

For the past week, Americans have been glued to an ongoing social media exchange between Olympic legend Simone Biles and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines.

The confrontation began when Gaines shared a photo of a Minnesota high school girls’ softball championship team whose star player was reportedly a boy, prompting Biles to attack Gaines on social media, calling her “truly sick” and a “sore loser” who was campaigning against transgender athletes simply because she had lost a race.

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