Posted on 02/01/2022 4:01:09 AM PST by Kaslin
How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women's college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people's values and level of rationality.
To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania's men's swim team, announced he was female and then joined the University of Pennsylvania's women's swim team.
Now named Lia, Thomas has set national records in women's swimming, such as in the 200 and 500 freestyle. Women who have trained nearly all their lives to be competitive swimmers were cheated out of wins.
The obvious question is: Is this fair? Is it fair for a biological male to compete as a female against females? Or is Thomas cheating?
To most Americans the answer is clear: Thomas is cheating.
As I recently wrote a column arguing that Thomas is a cheat, I will not belabor the point.
Instead, I will discuss others' reactions, for, as I wrote, they reveal a great deal about those people and institutions.
We will begin with the New York Times. Rather than as a cheat, the New York Times regards Thomas as heroic. When the Times finally got around to covering the story -- weeks after the non-Left media began covering the story did any of the "mainstream media" cover it -- the Times' writer on college sports, Billy Witz, wrote about the Thomas affair.
He ended his column with an ode to Thomas:
"And so if there was something enduring about Saturday('s swim competition between Penn and Harvard), it was not the two races that Thomas comfortably won or the two relays where she gamely tried. It was the way she carried herself in the water -- head down, with grace and ease."
That is how "woke" -- a term that includes amorality and irrationality -- The New York Times has become.
Now let's proceed to the college whose women's team Thomas swims for, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and the colleges which have competed against Penn -- Cornell and Harvard.
Like virtually every other university in America, and every other Ivy League college, the University of Pennsylvania threw its women swimmers under the bus. Not only did it not side with the women swimmers, nearly all of whom, according to reports, felt cheated when Thomas beat them in every race they competed, but it had no reaction to Thomas displaying male genitals in the women's locker room.
As reported in the Daily Mail:
"'We're uncomfortable in our own locker room.' Lia Thomas' UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn't always cover up her male genitals when changing and their concerns go ignored by their coach...
"'It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,' one swimmer on the team told Daily Mail ... Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.
"'While Lia covers herself with a towel sometimes, there's a decent amount of nudity,' the swimmer said. She and others have had a glimpse at her private parts.
"She stated that team members have raised their concern with the coach, trying to get Thomas ousted from the female locker room, but got nowhere.
"'Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,' the UPenn swimmer said. 'But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there's nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.'
'It's really upsetting because Lia doesn't seem to care how it makes anyone else feel,' the swimmer continued. 'The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.'"
UPenn's reaction:
"The school released a terse statement last month that it was offering mental health services to student-athletes."
Of course, neither Cornell nor Harvard defended their women either.
And those women dare not speak out. They know their futures could be destroyed if they did. As one Penn swimmer told the Daily Mail, "I might go on the record, but I'm definitely a little afraid. What I'm afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think, oh, this person's transphobic."
However, just in case some brave women were considering speaking out, the Daily Mail reported that the University of Pennsylvania is "prohibiting students from talking to the media." One assumes Harvard and Cornell did the same.
In the meantime, the woke cowards of the Ivy League released this statement:
"The Ivy League reaffirms its unwavering commitment to providing an inclusive environment for all student-athletes while condemning transphobia and discrimination in any form."
Ironically, Lia Thomas has rendered us a service. She has helped clarify the moral and intellectual state of the Ivy League and the New York Times, two formerly respected institutions. But, of course, that was a long time ago.
Not to make light of this but at this point in the conversation the women need to play along until the season openers and leave en mass. It would take courage, but it would send a message. Heckuva way to send a message, but any athletic aspirations flew out the window the day the cuckoo birds flew into the nests.
Lia Thomas is FORCING the country to deal with something that was much easier to deny and ignore, which is where the gay movement is going (which is towards pedophilia, as they’re already testing the waters there).
So if people do rise up (a little transgender woman lingo) to stop him, then he will have done a GREAT SERVICE to the country...as literally NOTHING ELSE was being done to stop this crap before him. If not, then just business as usual...and the girls at Penn can thank their ‘sisters-in-arms’, and probably themselves earlier, for empowering this these people.
Satan at work.
Feminist/Feminism movement is dead. Confirmed.
The fact that, despite some naked dude hanging his figs in her face, she still refers to "her male genitals" means she's either drank the koolaid herself, or is too cowardly to state the obvious truth - that the dude is a dude.
Going along with the lie is worse than telling the lie.
For everybody else, it's theoretical. For the other members of the swim team, it's their career and their life. It's not easy being Jackie Robinson.
If women are supposed to be equal to men, then they have no business competing in segregated sporting events.
My prediction all along has been that this idiocy will ultimately bring about the demise of ALL scholastic sports. The women's events will be dominated by men and then disappear, and the schools will be in the uncomfortable position of having to explain why they only have men's sports. So rather than face up to their own fundamentally flawed world view, they will simply drop sports entirely.
You're going to see collegiate sports go the way of club teams in the not-too-distant future.
I disagree. My brother played for an Ivy League basketball team, and that played a direct role in his landing his first job.
I think for an amateur athlete, the pride of completion and accomplishment would be the primary reason these people continue to participate in college sports even if they have no plans or opportunity to go on. And that sense of pride is very important to them.
Do you think it would have been the same case if he had been an Ivy League swimmer or cyclist?
My first adult amateur hockey team was in a league that made a big deal about ensuring that the competition was fair and reasonable. They had five tiers of teams, and went to great lengths to make sure that players -- and teams -- were placed in the appropriate tiers. That was a big part of their sales pitch when they charged registration fees for the league.
Alumni bonds can be pretty powerful no matter what the sport.
Western feminism is dead. I suppose that feminists in other non western countries fighting trafficking, prostitution, porn, genital mutilation, forced hijab and such are still trucking along to some degree.
This is the result of feminism and women voting.
Quote: “The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.”
First: Woman and men are conceived as either female or male. A person is not assigned a random sex at their birth. It is the miracle of nature and the speed of dad’s swimmer that decides whether mom’s egg is conceived a male or a female. When a child is born the results of a conception being either male or female is noted and recorded.
Regarding: “The feelings of one.” Feelings? What are these feelings? The feeling of power that a male chauvinist gets from dominating and demeaning females? What is the need, feeling or desire, not only of male claimants of womanhood, but of those who support and insist that men should be allowed to claim to be just as good at being or better at being a female, a woman, then those conceived as female?
Something is wrong. Too many are trying to demote conceived female to a lower status then that of those conceived male who claims female status. It feels to many that a conceived male’s claim of having a conceived female’s birthright of and to femininity and womanhood are a way for some conceived males to dominate, demean and lower the status of conceived females. Are they actually chauvinists?
Second: A separate subject is females who claim masculinity and to be male as it has always been men, males, that have the power to dominate conceived females.
Just my rambling thoughts....
They would be targeted for being "transphobic" and anti-LGBTQ.
LGBTQ activists and their fake news lackeys would gleefully intimidate employers against hiring them.
This is what these young women are, rightfully and unfortunately, afraid of. It's why they won't come out publicly and on the record against this outrage.
They are giving the wrong person mental health services.
I haven’t heard a peep out of any feminist women. Wonder why?
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