Your thinly veiled bigotry is still just bigotry, despite hiding it behind a strawman

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      Very true. Here’s my attempt

      Male
      Michael Vick
      Wayne Gretzky
      Roger Federer
      Kobe Bryant
      Shaquille O’Neal
      David Beckham
      OJ Simpson
      Babe Ruth
      Usain Bolt
      Oscar Pistorius
      Mike Tyson
      Michael Phelps
      Tony Hawk
      Tom Brady
      That car racing guy who hit his head on a rock while skiing and is in a coma
      Max Verstappen

      Female
      Serena Williams
      Venus Williams
      Brittany Griner
      That gymnastics girl making a displeased face in the meme (Mikayla Maroney?)

      So for me, even though I’m not interested in sports, OP was correct.

      I’m curious why I don’t know any female race car drivers… the argument could be made that female athletes are not as physically strong so they aren’t competitive in strength based sports, but it seems like anyone can drive a car fast? Who are the biggest female race car drivers?

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        Racing vehicles is actually very physical. Especially at the top flight. The speed through corners puts a lot of stress on the body, just look at the necks of the top racing drivers. They’re usually pretty small guys, but are often incredibly fit. Valterri Bottas, an F1 driver, also mixes with the guys at the elite level of cycling.

        Dana Patrick is probably the most famous recent driver, but of all time, (and the most successful) it’d be Michelle Mouton by far. People might know of Sabine Schmidt and Susie Wolff, both retired, but it’s likely because of their achievements off the track, despite them being motorsport related.

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        Literally outside of the Williams Sisters and the “Transpeople are coming for your wives and daughters” scapegoats of the week like Fallon Fox and Lia Thomas… the only name that jumps to mind is Danica Patrick

        Who never finished a race in her life and is better remembered for being in softcore porn ads for GoDaddy.com and making a very questionable playable appearance in a Sonic game, than any non “First Female” accomplishments in Nascar.

        Look I’m all for breaking the glass ceiling, but Danica Patrick isn’t a woman who does any favors for people trying to get over the stereotype.

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        That car racing guy who hit his head on a rock while skiing and is in a coma

        That guy lives in Switzerland, passed by his land once. But what the fuck was his name again. Ah, Michael Schumacher!

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      If we’re talking OF ALL TIME names then i can manage maybe 15. I still only got to 6 women :/

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        In total, sure. There’s enough (in)famous athletes between football, tennis, golf, racing, etc.

        Active athletes from one type of sport? No chance.

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              Rainbow gets you to 7, which I can du without thinking: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. 2 biggest non rainbow colours: pink, brown. Then you just need to name any of the more unique colours: teal, cyan. That’s where I got to before I had to actually stop and think. You could probably add another to the rainbow by listing purple as distinct from violet. You should probably avoid black and white in case the person is being pedantic.

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              yellow blue green cyan teal lime orange red purple pink hot pink mustard white black

              i forgot to count but should be enough! but also i’m cheating since i’m an artist

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                I don’t think “pink” and “hot pink” should count individually here.

                Or if they do, you missed the opportunity to just list all colors + “hot” infront of them lol.

                Still a passing grade regardless, so you get a hot gold star 🌟

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                  in my eyes they’re very different :D i don’t like pink, but hot pink is neat when used as an accent colour

                  thank you thank you

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          YOU ARE BEING TRANSMITTED LIVE ON PRIME TIME TELEVISION. NAME ALL THE ATHLETES THAT HAVE EVER EXISTED FOR THE LIVE AUDIENCE. QUICK FIRE GO!

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            Me: [unintelligible]

            Announcer: Speak into the mic [you buffoon]

            Me: AH! MIKE!

            Me: MICHAEL JORDAN… MIKE TYSON… MICHAEL PHELPS?

            Announcer: And that’s time! You were supposed to be naming baseball players, remember? Technically, you got two out of three, so I’m required to give you this ticket for a free hotdog.