Riley Gaines Fires Back At Simone Biles And Her 'Internalized Misogyny'

I don't think too many of us thought we'd spend our Friday night watching Simone Biles, one of, if not the greatest Olympic gymnast of all time, try to tank her legacy as a women's sports icon by taking a bizarre shot on social media at OutKick's Riley Gaines and making her support for men competing in women's sports clear.

I mean, she got her medals. The rest of you ladies are on your own, according to Simone.

Biles — who claims to be all about "body positivity" — even took a shot at Gaines' stature and appearance.

Well, Biles may still have a serious case of the long-term twisties from the Paris Olympics, because this is a bizarre hill to die on, and now Gaines has issued her response in an Instagram video that is shear perfection. 

"Yesterday, Simone Biles — the Olympic gymnast, the best of the best, bar none; there is no one even remotely in her league — I guess, in an attempt to be inclusive and virtuous, decided to sell out all girls who have dreams to achieve and to succeed, and to specifically personally attack and body shame me."

Gaines then ran through Biles' post which was pretty wild and included a self-own in which she noted that a trans-only category — read: not letting fellas compete against women and girls — was a solution, and a final line in which she claimed that "no one in sports" was safe with Gaines around.

It also included a line about how Gaines should be "uplifting" transgender athletes.

"Let's get this straight. It's my job. It's the women's job," the host of the Gaines for Girlspodcast said. "This is what Simone Biles is saying: It's the women's job to find a way for the men's feelings to be validated, for their identity to be affirmed. That's not my job, actually, at all. So to say I should be