r/facepalm • u/nonetakenback • Aug 12 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ US women’s rugby player takes a bad angle selfie and idiots assume she’s trans

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u/gbroon Aug 12 '24

Having known a few female rugby players I can confirm this is likely true.

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u/DigitalGT Aug 12 '24

Female or male all rugby players are jacked as hell

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u/Freakjob_003 Aug 13 '24

Reposting that one clip of the Ireland rugby team member literally lifting her teammate up by her shorts to catch the ball, and then safely controlling her drop back down. Badass.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1egx87o/woman_on_the_ireland_rugby_team_picking_up_one_of/

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u/thr3sk Aug 13 '24

Impressive but that's actually a pretty common "move" at high level rugby.

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u/Freakjob_003 Aug 13 '24

I read that on the comments from the video. Still damn impressive!

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u/ScotterMcJohnsonator Aug 12 '24

My cousin's daughter plays, I'm obviously much bigger and stronger than her, and after I saw one of her highlight videos she scares the piss out of me

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u/Tymareta Aug 12 '24

What an utterly strange comment.

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u/borkborkbork99 Aug 12 '24

I dated a girl on the college rugby squad briefly when I was a sophomore. Can confirm. She found it amusing to no end to punch and wrassle her little hockey boy. Foreplay shouldn’t leave a black eye, mmmkay? (She was still cool as shit.)