THREE cheers for the generosity of men! Hip-hip… Anyone? Guess not. One remarkable feature of the ‘transgender’ skip blaze currently warming the cockles (extant or not yet surgically removed) of the Australian left – an Australian left that now makes Don Dunstan look like Black Jack McEwen – is that so many men and so few women are trying to save women’s sport. This is despite the fact that women’s sport is of very little interest to any of the men. Women are not as fast, not as strong, not as surefooted, not as balanced, not as brutal and not as athletically adept as men. The hardest job in sportscasting must be calling women’s football. An hour and a half affecting enthusiasm for a match that would be considered a debacle at an under-14 boys’ carnival. That’s equivalent to an entire day at an Emily’s List conference where the guest speaker is Quentin Bryce.
And yet, at least in those sports where the dignity of women and girls isn’t obliterated by imitation roughhousing suited to the Benny Hill theme – swimming, say, or traditional track and field – sex supremacy doesn’t matter. The perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication and joy are the same. No red-blooded man would have missed Cathy Freeman’s 400 metres triumph at the 2000 Olympics. Twenty-two years later, however, the left would rejoice if the next Freeman runs second to a bloke. Think about that. Think also about the depravity of those whose canned answer to such travesties – predicted or realised – is to scoff that they won’t happen often. Cowards, they won’t personally have to tell any Cathys their dreams are over. This willingness to sacrifice youth and childhood for ideology is a diabolical hallmark of our time. Hundreds of thousands of children worldwide were abused in body and mind by governments during the ‘pandemic’ – not to protect them but the invented necessity of merciless totalism.
Less novel, alas, are think-alike ladies of a certain age and postcode who are as unwilling to give up a feminist dogma as they are Moët or a cute Mercedes coupé. The nihilistic sameness characteristic of Labor’s Scotland Island left, ‘moderate’ Liberals and Simon Holmes à Court’s “Independents” – marshalled last week to cancel Katherine Deves – was mocked by Australian Crawl 40 years ago. It is precisely this lockstep devotion to an utterly decrepit movement that makes feminists unwilling to take on the ‘transgender’ lobby and its war on women. Why? Mother’s pride combined with fear of apostasy. It was feminism, of course, that gave birth to transgenderism. For 50 years feminists brainwashed governments, schools, universities, advertisers and film-makers into believing – or at least affirming – that femininity and masculinity were culturally imposed. Without the doctrine of imposition, feminism ends. Just as mask and mandate lunatics sacrificed children to maintain the illusion of emergency, feminists sacrifice them to maintain the myth of gender.
That’s nowhere near the outer limit of their fanaticism. Over the same half century they denied the worth of the unborn, denigrated marriage and did their utmost to make boys hate themselves. Is it any wonder a society in thrall to these toxic falsehoods should produce so many bewildered males who see ‘transitioning’ to the fairer sex as a comforting way out of any despair? And the school of ‘true feminists’ fighting back isn’t helping much. In The Weekend Australian an essay by Margaret Somerville – professor of bioethics at the University of Notre Dame – underscores how delusional a via media between ‘true feminism’ and transgenderism really is.
After bowing to the Joans by saying Deves’ comments were “harmful and disrespectful,” Somerville corrals her readers into a wholly phony middle way: “First, sex and gender are often confused with each other. Sex is a biological fact, gender is a culturally assigned characteristic.” No Professor, you can’t have that poisonous old cake and eat it too. This subject should not be left to feminists trying to save face as much as prejudice. I am not a “biological male”; I am a man in every sense. I will not be patronised by women who now merely concede I’m faster and stronger. The want of cultivation of all the nobler things men are better at – and meant for – is ruining our civilisation.
Women’s sport is a joke. It is just like celebrating childrens sport. Let the trannies run wild for 5 years and then revisit the topic. Apart from netball, women’s sport is watching the weak and uncordinated try to compete. The feminists have made their bed. Let them lie in it. Who really cares? If some omega male wants to declare himself a female, so be it. They will only end up killing themselves in 5 years.
I am not a sport watcher though was at the Sydney Olympic stadium to see the magnificent win by Cathy Freeman, what a thrill – but this situation where women’s sports administration allows men still with twigs and berries in tact or not is a failure of the ‘leadership’ in all areas of our institutions from politics, to academia, and of course the media.
The vast majority of female athletes that I have spoken to are peeved at the trans blokes competing in their category. Why doesn’t one political party pick up on this? Another great piece by the way CL. Thanks again.
Mrs entropy reckons most people don’t know who Australian scrawl was.
How depressing.
I probably shouldn’t need a clue, but in an otherwise killer piece, ‘Somerville’ pops up without any introduction.
Yes, and it again happens that superiority is claimed merely by denigrating the other, such that women who affirm their womanhood are ‘called out’ as lesser moral human beings, just as men who affirm their manhood are ‘called out’ as lesser moral human beings. Witness, then, the intimidation and injustice on the part of the transgender authorities. As for ‘gender’ being ‘culturally assigned’: ‘gender’ does not assign ‘gender’ but assigns the biological realities of the sexes – male, female, neuter.
Superb post CL !
Posting late at night, I accidentally backspaced the penultimate paragraph.
I can’t tell you how annoyed I am about that. Grrr.
Now restored – with my apologies.
Sensational. Thank you C.L.
Just a reminder everyone that Katherine Deves has received death threats and other assorted threats from the transgender lobby and their friends. This “lobby” and their friends on the progressive left (such as Matt Green) love to dish out abuse and threats to anyone who dares challenge their sinister nonsense. This is how they operate, they have a lot of form, both here in Oz and elsewhere. J K Rowling, Maya Forstater, Maria McLachlan (herself assaulted by a “transgender women” at London’s Speaker’s Corner back in 2018), Professor Kathleen Stock (hounded out of her university job late last year), Professor Holly Lawford-Smith and others have received threats…such as death threats, rape threats, threats to mutilate their vaginas and so on. This is how these perverts, who insist they’re women, operate. They will tolerate no dissent from their perverse ideology. It reveals the movement’s inherent misogyny…..a misogyny that the progressive left openly embrace. Actually I shouldn’t use the word “left”, it’s an empty word, a more accurate description is “progressive Marxist”.
Anyway, isn’t it a great time to live? We are witnessing a war on the female, an inevitable result of feminism. After fifty years of “feminism”, we’ve now come to the stage where “women” are being disappeared.
As for Matt Kean, aka Matt Green, as far as I’m concerned his vituperative attacks on Deves have contributed to the situation now where Deves’ partner and her children are now living in a safe space. Kean might not have personally sent threats to Deves, but his very deliberate, very hyperbolic and very inflammatory remarks in the media about her “hate speech” and his calling for her to be disendorsed have helped stack the tinder on the pyre. Kean owes Deves an apology but such an apology would need to come from a man and Matt Kean ain’t no man.
C.L., I wrote this response overnight to support Cassie’s comment on yesterday’s post “Like I said, these men are mentally disturbed and dangerous”. I leave it to you whether to publish it at all, and if so whether under yesterday’s post or today’s “All the ladies’ names are Joan.”
Cassie +3.
In my long-gone youth, men dressing as women was foreign to my ears and eyes. Such men, if they existed, would have incurred the well-earned ridicule of normal men, in many of whom there probably remained some vestigial knowledge, passed on by their elders, of the prohibition in Deuteronomy 22:5 even thought they were unlikely to be able to quote the source.
The question is what to do? We will not make Biblical students out of such men overnight, if ever. In my view, feminists are reaping what they have sown for decades. They, and by extension, women generally have been the beneficiaries of statutorily enforced preferential treatment at the expense of men.
Women have supplanted men, or are the process of doing so, in most walks of life. A cursory glance at the professions, business, the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and Commissioners for redress of every real and imaginary wrong tells us that.
Predominantly, women teach our boys, many of whom grow to maturity without male role models. Increasingly in the middle-class suburb in which I live, it is men who walk their children to and from school. A neighbour, a fit and healthy male with tertiary qualifications in mining, is for all practical purposes a house-husband.
Twice in recent weeks in my State electoral posters have sprung up like mushrooms. In a 60 km suburban round trip to visit my stepfather-in-law in aged care female faces predominate in those posters. The transition from male to female is in full spate.
It is little to be wondered that easily influenced males are invading spaces the sensible of us recognise as exclusively female. Others, of more irascible mien, hit out at the culture in which women can do no wrong and men no right.
Decades ago, the cry of feminists was to “be a part of things”, code for “we want money”. Today they have succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings.
They have carried along with them everyday women, including those in their early-twenties whose ambition when my wife and I started life’s journey together more than sixty years ago was to work for two to three years to help save for a deposit on a home and then start raising a family. It was almost a rite of passage for the young mother to visit the office in which she formerly worked, there proudly to display her first-born and perhaps others later.
Alas, today, this is mocked as 1950s behaviour. Australia’s total fertility rate today is one-half of what it was sixty years ago, the native-born population is not replacing itself, and governments feel compelled to import migrants from abroad to stimulate demand in the economy. One consequence is that it is almost impossible today for a young couple on a single income to buy a home with a mortgage loan.
In former times post-WWII Australia was self-sufficient in almost every respect except militarily. Today it is none of these things; manufacturing has been all but destroyed, it depends on oil imported from overseas, with dangerously low stocks held in reserve, and its military has become a joke under the onslaught of homosexuality, feminisation and morale-sapping denigration of battle-worn heroes.
If China or another predator decides to invade Australia militarily the nation’s Scott Morrisons, Marise Paynes, Anthony Albaneses, Penny Wongs, and their ilk, will be powerless to stop it.
The feminists’ triumphs will not endure forever. Their ultimate legacy will be destruction of society as we knew it.
Ah, hello…that destruction IS their triumph, as far as they are concerned.
Like all revolutions, what comes after is not really considered as important as the revolution itself.
If China or another predator decides to invade Australia militarily the nation’s Scott Morrisons, Marise Paynes, Anthony Albaneses, Penny Wongs, and their ilk, will be powerless to stop it.
Gotta disagree with you there WD – the ones you named are steadfastly working towards that goal, for their masters.
Everything else is spot on…
Like all revolutions, what comes after is not really considered as important as the revolution itself.
Not really – they think Utopia will spring up from the ashes.
a lesson on how to roll up very large ideas in a sentence
thanks CL for another wizardly masterpiece
My own thoughts C.L. but much more eloquently expressed. I will NEVER watch a woman play footy or compete at boxing. although I like their swimming competitions. Could be their shape I admire perhaps. As for cross dressers, they used to get bashed where I came from, often. Probably not right but kept the loonies in their holes for a while. Homosexuals were treated the same so there weren’t too many flaunting their wares. Not right either but was it worse than todays behaviour by these obviously mentally challenged people?
Thank you, WD, for your saddening but brilliantly spot-on summary of how we got here. Everything is interconnected in the way you describe, creating a super-bug for which we have no cure – except the truth.
Neither will I.
I want nothing to do with them.
Slightly off topic C.L, but once again it relates to the progressive left’s eternal hypocrisy, particularly in light of the man who turned up at the Liberal Party function a few nights ago where Deves was appearing. He’s since been charged with assault of a Liberal Party volunteer at that function. But just remember how, only a few weeks ago, we had Albanese trying to make political capital out of the fact that he needed security, neglecting to mention, of course, that almost all attacks on politicians in this country, verbal and physical, have occurred against right-wing and conservative politicians. In fact, I can’t remember any Labor or Greens politician being attacked. Happy to be proven wrong. Morrison, on the campaign trail, is subjected to regular verbal vitriol from the progressive left, witness what happened to him yesterday in Alice Springs.
Anyway, in news just in, from the Daily Telegraph….
“Man charged after Barnaby Joyce confronted in roadside verbal attack
A man has been charged after a roadside confrontation involving Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.
A man has been charged with threatening a public official after a roadside incident involving Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.
An Australian Federal Police Taskforce, with the assistance of the NSW Police Force, arrested and charged a 52-year-old man following an investigation into an incident on the New England Highway between Armidale and Tamworth on Friday.
The man was refused police bail and is expected to appear in Tamworth Local Court on Monday after police charged him on Sunday with threatening to cause harm to a Commonwealth public official and failure to comply with bail conditions.
He was arrested at his New South Wales’ home on Sunday by officers from the new specialised investigative Taskforce Operation Wilmot, which has been established to help ensure the security of high-office holders and parliamentarians during the 2022 Federal election.
Police will allege the man verbally threatened an AFP officer and adopted a fighting stance during Friday’s incident.
AFP Detective Acting Superintendent Jeremy Staunton said the arrest should send a strong message that the AFP and its partners were working tirelessly to identify and prosecute anyone who broke the law by harassing, menacing or threatening politicians, or those who worked with them.
“The AFP supports political expression and freedom of speech,” he said.
“However, when it leads to disruption, harassment, intimidation, threatening behaviour and damage to property, it can reach the threshold of a criminal offence.
“Politicians, candidates and the people who work with them should be able to do their jobs safely and we will not tolerate criminal behaviour.”
The Taskforce works in close collaboration with the Australian Electoral Commission.
The man will face court charged with: threatening to cause harm to a Commonwealth public official, contrary to section 147.2 (2) of the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth). The maximum penalty for the offence is five years’ imprisonment if found guilty; and, failure to comply with bail conditions, contrary to section 77 (1)(C) of the New South Wales Bail Act.”
Now I’m not comfortable with charging someone for “speech”, so there must something more, he clearly physically threatened the AFP.
Sounds like he was already on bail for another matter.
And it’s hard to be off topic with the left’s behaviour nowadays – it all seems interrelated.
Superb article, C.L.
He is certainly a POS, openly working away at undermining his own party, attacking fellow Libs, and everything the Liberal Party used to stand for.
In some ways he is worse than Turnbull.
Excellent CL!
A bit broad? They are rather good at beach volleyball for example.
“I will NEVER watch a woman play footy or compete at boxing.”
Nor will I…but some women’s sport is okay to watch, such as swimming and some track and field. I don’t mind women’s cricket either.
After having had the misfortune to inadvertently see a few minutes of AFLW here and there several years ago you could not pay me to watch it or attend matches.
Which is practically the only way they attract spectators according to my brother; free tickets and or promotional stunts.
They make the old VFA matches seem exciting and the players vastly skilful by comparison, as broadcast on TV many years ago.
Apart from Women’s AFL which is awful (but all AFL is awful), I love watching women’s sports. The obtuseness of comparing a game played by blokes compared with that played by women is daft. I wouldn’t compare a Southern Stars match against New Zealand Women with a men’s test against India for instance. They’re two different games played in different environments by different people.
The concept of blokes getting in there, regardless of how they choose to dress, is 100% wrong. I don’t know a lot about Deves but she has been a leading light on this issue for a long time so I will back her 100% on this subject. Kean and his acolytes need to be pushed out because there is nothing “liberal” about letting a bloke take a woman’s place. I might be “liberal” to let him dress that way if he so desires but that’s a different issue.
Cassie of Sydney says:
25 April, 2022 at 1:53 pm
… In fact, I can’t remember any Labor or Greens politician being attacked. Happy to be proven wrong.
How about Arthur Calwell back in 1966…
The Hon Marise Payne is a wet liberal who is totally unqualified to deal with with the mandarins and serpents of the Dept of Defence. She is a lightweight liberal in a position far beyond her level. I was her neighbour for several years in Canberra. She might make a decent backbencher. Maybe.
Fact check: true. But then it is traditional for foreign affairs. julie Bishop for example was famous for preferencing trips to New York and Europe, and never ever reading briefs.
The greatest travesty was Payne running defence.
I like watching netball.