Goose, Goose, Gander

Olympic competitions for female athletes are on their way out. The current mania for erasing the lines between the sexes is surely going to accomplish this sorry task. Recently an "intersex" athlete from South Africa was allowed to compete and win the women's 800-meter race ... in a runaway, even though "her" testosterone levels exceeded what was previously considered acceptable ... see: Daily Caller Article. This win has, I believe, sealed the gloomy fate of the distaff side of Olympic athletics ... and possibly further.

The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has ruled that high testosterone levels don't necessarily give an athlete an advantage. This idiotic CAS ruling has opened the floodgates for gender bending to effectively eliminate female athletic competitions. Years ago the Soviet Union used to field Olympic "female" athletes who clearly were male or testosterone-enhanced and who dominated many track and field competitions. Obvious push-back helped remedy this eligibility flaw. But now the world is upside down once again. It will take only a few more Olympics before the competitions become androgynous ... with shemales winning most if not all of the medals.

Actually things might get even worse if U.S. silly gender-ID norms prevail and an athlete needs only to "self-identify" as female to compete in these events. Then, of course, it will not just be the Olympics ... women's basketball, women's golf, etc. will all gradually be usurped by men posing as women. And, unless sanity returns, female athletics on all levels will be Title 9.5ed out of existence. This obviously would present a paradox for the uber-liberal feminine side of politics. Then their dimwitedness will have solidified "what is good for the goose will forever belong to the gander."

Goose for the Gander

When the terms "rape" or "sexual assault" appear in the press these days (the meme that apparently keeps the main-stream media's blood flowing ... witness Bill Cosby's spotlight), the gender that is top of mind is female. This makes a certain amount of cultural sense in that females are generally thought to be weaker and more vulnerable (Lena Dunham being a major exception). However, when I just read that there are more male rapes in the military than female ones (raw numbers, not percentages), I was a little taken aback ... see: Enews Strory. And this then got me to thinking.

With Rolling Stone magazine's apology for its poor reporting in the University of Virginia fraternity gang-rape story, our current obsessive media focus on male sexual predation on females has taken a step backward. However, the huge numbers of males being raped in prisons usually engenders only unsympathetic snickers. And, if a female teacher is revealed as taking sexual advantage of one of her male students, the reaction is generally far more subdued than if the genders are reversed. Why this lopsided set of standards? Have we not been inculcated for the last fifty years that the sexes are equal in all respects? Should not female sports teams be wearing blue shoes in sympathy for the plight of male sexual victims?

In truth, goosing a gander should be just as serious an offense as gandering a goose (or gandering a gander).