Big Left is slowly eating itself – a pattern all leftist institutions, from Mao’s Politburo to Pacifica News eventually recap.
Most lately: yesterday, I heard a couple of feminist congruence-checkers masquerading as NPR correspondents on the drearily, pointlessly breezy “It’s Been a Minute” fulminating about this next bit: filmmarker Jane Campion has been raked over the coals for what, to be fair, may have been a bit of sloppy rhetoric (emphasis added):
“Venus and Serena, you are such marvels. However, you do not play against the guys, like I have to,” Campion said, referring to the four male directors who were also nominated in the best director category.:
I have to imagine Campion is horrified by how her statement was received; Campion, a fairly keen observer, has to know that it’s utterly politically incorrect to say any woman can’t kick any man’s ass at any activity whatsoever. Have some faith, people.
Speaking of which:
Huh.
Mx B Anderson appears to have a severe body image disorder. Back to sports. The one I know best, long distance running, has been afflicted by feminazis who variously make claims such as “Ms. XX ran an ultradistance foot race in Alaska and finished first. Therefore women rule over any distance greater than 50K.” Not true, of course. It just happens to be possible to find a race sufficiently obscure that one’s chances of winning are enhanced.” Case in point: me, at age 53 running and winning an obscure 5 mile race in Gays Mills, Wisconsin (that’s the name of the town, I kid you not) at a pace that 20 years earlier would have been what I would run on an easy training day. The other canard involves comparing times run by women in the marathon with those of men runners fifty years earlier. Times are faster, true, but training methods have changed. The speed run by men is proportionately faster when results from the same decade are compared. Now we have the whole tranny nightmare devastating all those Title IX beneficiaries and one would think feminists would be outraged. Mostly they aren’t.
golfdoc, Time magazine has just proclaimed that men make better women, than women.
(I had an allegory to end this post with, but decided it was too crude…imagine that. Only an obese tranny could do that to me)
Regarding the marathon, part of the issue is that 50 years back, the east Africans were still learning how to run it, and role models like Abebe Bikila were few and far between.
Regarding men doing OK as men but awesome “as women”, I think you’ve got a natural ~ 1 sigma shift as that “transition” is made, and then you’ve also got the likelihood that all “women’s” participants can indulge a certain amount of “juice”, because the IOC limit of 10nmol/liter is 4 times the maximum usual level for women and 10nmol/liter more than the T level of a truly “transitioned” male.”
Given that good athletes get preferential admission to colleges, scholarships, championships, and sponsorships, I think our society would be fools to ignore the possibility that people might game the system for the rewards we grant.
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