Sharron Davies shared her binary sex fantasy island – our 7 favourite responses
We have to confess we haven’t thought much about Sharron Davies since she was winning medals in swimming pools, although we do seem to remember a short-lived stint as a breakfast TV presenter (or are we imagining that?)
Anyway, she was back on our radar today after she took to Twitter to say this.
And if she was expecting to make a splash she won’t have been disappointed, with these 9 responses a neat summation of exactly what many people thought of that.
1.
This post is so relentlessly dumb for so many reasons. If there are only two humans left humanity will die out anyway as there’s not enough genetic diversity. If there were two people on the island they might not be fertile but they’d still experience a dynamic between the two…
— Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) July 1, 2019
2.
Alright let’s do the first two and get this shit over and done with for good so I no longer have to read stuff like this. https://t.co/HpQKk0fben
— Alex Elmslie (@ImAllexx) July 1, 2019
3.
can you volunteer to be one of the two on the island please, sharron
— laura (@lauraw97_) July 1, 2019
4.
It might not die out but I would have some concerns about the rather limited gene pool. Humanity on that island might end up consisting of stupid people saying things like this 👇https://t.co/JnUIcwyMmz
— Ragnar Weilandt (@RagnarWeilandt) July 1, 2019
5.
https://twitter.com/veneficaultrix/status/1145710732866215939
6.
What if the “biological female” is infertile, what if the man is? What if they hate each other (assuming she’s not advocating rape) or actually think its quite selfish to birth a child on an uninhabited island. This hypothetical scenario has more holes than a crochet crop top.
— Hatpin Drill (@PippinDrill) July 1, 2019
And here’s what Davies had to say about it later.
And we haven’t killed all the fish with plastic first!!
— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) July 1, 2019
Some of you are making me laugh.. the islands an analogy & wasn’t literal!! Didn’t think we were going to deliberately maroon chosen specimens at the end of the world after armegeden as an experiment? 😂
— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) 1 July 2019
You started it, Sharron.
I’m not really religious, but I’m not sure messing with biology is very healthy in the long term. Evolution is pretty good at getting it right
— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) July 1, 2019
We’re with Oonagh.
How about we just avoid putting people on islands and all get on with our lives?
— Oonagh (@Okeating) July 1, 2019