The Atlantic is a magazine that stupid people with six-figure salaries in suburban bedroom communities outside urban hellholes read and then spit back at parties to sound smart.
“Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense” is primed for that purpose. The details of its arguments matter less than that enthusiastic wealthy hipsters will recite the general tone of it at cocktail parties convinced that somehow the world has been altered by its arguments.
And these are some arguments.
The insistence on separating sports teams strictly by sex is backwards, argues Michela Musto, an assistant sociology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied the effect of the gender binary on students and young athletes. “Part of the reason why we have this belief that boys are inherently stronger than girls, and even the fact that we believe that gender is a binary, is because of sport itself, not the other way around,” she told me by phone.
An “assistant professor of sociology”. So a jumped-up grad student in an imaginary field with deep thoughts like sex differences being invented by the existence of sports. Someone ought to tell it to moose and lions. I’m not sure why male lions have manes? Do they play football?
Someone should ask an assistant professor of sociology by phone. Call your nearest university, tell them it’s an emergency and ask to speak to the nearest assistant professor of sociology. Tell them it’s a lion-sex related question.
And if you think that’s an amazing argument, get ready for this one.
“One recent small study in Norway found no innate sex difference when it came to youth-soccer players’ technical skills. The researchers hypothesized that the gap they did find between girls and boys was likely due to socialization, not biology.”
A small-scale study in Norway. Technical skills. No innate differences. Due to socialization, not biology. How stupid do you have to be to write out that entire paragraph? Not as dumb as you have to be to read it and believe it.
The issue isn’t technical skills. It’s power and resiliency. But here’s the summary of that study.
“Sixteen male and 17 female youth soccer players of the same age and experience level took part in technical skill tests of reception of the ball on the ground and long passes. The results show a significant difference between the sexes in reception performance in favour of the male players, but no significant difference in the long pass test. This leads to the conclusion that the lower score on ball reception is probably the result of experience in small-sided self-organised soccer games during childhood among the male players, which influences reception skills but not the ability to make accurate long passes.”
Okay folks, that’s it. We’ve disproven the idea of sex. Biological differences don’t exist.
The Atlantic. Gold Standard for Democrats.
I’ve coached men’s and women’s soccer at the college level. The women do not change the field of play the way the men do, period, including at the World Cup level, It is not socialization that explains the conspicuous difference in speed and power.
It would be nice to think that most of the players on the USWNT appreciate that their success speaks volumes about the relative superiority of opportunity for American women. But no. Instead we get Megan Rapinoe and her whining ilk, who lost 5-2 to an under-15 Dallas Boys team.
Great first article read of the day. Think I woke my roommate up laughing. I saw the image of “Pat” and thought the article would be about the ‘news,’ apparently written by youngsters, that SNL was getting their first nonbinary cast member. Another of those “Call me Loretta,” moments between yesterday’s comedy gold and today’s leftist woke reality.
So we can do away with Title IX and women’s sports altogether? I guess the only thing left to decide is whether the former men use the former women’s tee, or the other way around.
Why is it that back in the 1980’s both NYC and San Francisco had to dumb down their physical requirements for women wanting to join either the police force or the fire dept.?
They could neither scale a 6 foot wall nor drag a 180lb. dummy.
Was this because of inequity playing soccer in the 60’s? Oh wait, there was no soccer played in high schools in the 60’s… It had to be something else…
omg, that reminded me, of watching boys soccer games and girls soccer games, when younger relatives were playing. A world of difference.
I guess we actually can blame SNL for all of the Trans madness. It’s Pat!!
The question I always come back to is, WHY is the left so utterly obsessed with the idea of confusing and eliminating gender? Are they replaying an ancient gnostic theme? I vaguely recall that some of the gnostic sects taught that God made a mistake in creating the world, especially a world which contained male and female and included “gross” bodily functions like reproduction and defecation. It was believed that anything other than a world of pure spirit was defiling, and that some of the angels permanently declared war on God’s material creation and its denizens. Is leftism a Christian gnostic heresy?
Interesting point, thanks.
To create new fake victim groups? And insanity, of course.
Pat: My “significant other” has been in a bad mood lately.
Kevin Nealon: What is your significant other’s name?
Pat: Chris.
Kevin Nealon: Oh, what is Chris upset about?
Pat: Well, you know it’s that time of the month again.
Kevin Nealon (with a knowing smile): Oh, I see!
Pat: Yes, the bills are coming due, and it’s always stressful.
I have no doubt the freaks who want trannies to compete with women would never support normal men doing so.
And girl’s teams can’t compete with boy’s in Soccer or any other sport. Even in sports for individuals, there would be no female champions. NONE. Not even figure skating.
That reminded me, we had exactly *one* girl in our elementary school that could compete in the boys games. She was very popular.
I bet she grew up to be a lesbian.
For the mainstream progressive, gender has been over for almost a decade. Since, by now, most of them are also millennials, they can’t even define gender or describe what the differences may be. They’ve been raised watching TV series like “Marvel’s Legends of the Future” which teach us that adult-child sex is great, and all superheroes are gay, bi, or drawn to animals.
Actually shes right.
We should completely do away with mens and womens divisions.
Women have been relentlessly clamoring for male privileges as well as female privileges. Enough is enough.
If women want to be treated like men, then treat them as men and be done with it.
Frankly, if a woman wants to box, play soccer or football or wrestling, let her compete against the men or shut up and go home
Enough of this insanity.