Comment O’ The Day
As much as I was starting to enjoy Ms. Stadtmiller’s anti-trannies on women’s teams rant, she completely ruined it when she wrote:
“If you’re a female athlete you are defying the patriarchal odds.”
It was then that I thought to myself: nonsense, sister, you’ve missed the point entirely. It was the patriarchy that had men and women competing in separate sports leagues in the first place. And it’s feminism and its logical conclusions that have led us to our present situation, in which women are forced to compete with athletes with penises and substantial strength and hormonal advantages over them, and to refer to such athletes with penises as “she” or get kicked off the team, and in which women’s sports are being destroyed.
As the patriarchy might say (if it were a human individual): “Miss me yet?”
—JPL
I’m doing my best to be kind. –Mandy Stadtmiller
This is a man. I am a woman who knows what a man looks like. You cannot scare me out of my instincts into saying otherwise. I know what reality is. This is what a cheating man who enjoys cheating against women looks like.
Do you remember what it is like at all to be a young woman?
Just how overwhelming and mortifying and embarrassing so much of it all is?
Embarrassment can feel like death. Banishment from a social circle is death. Sex and puberty and bodily changes cause so much shyness and nerves and uncertainty and stimulation.
And then sometimes…a miracle occurs.
Sometimes a young woman finds something instead of consumerism and hypersexuality and the light glossy sociopathy of modern life.
Sometimes she becomes a female athlete.
If you are a young woman who competes in sports, there is a certain thrilling power that comes with it.
You learn confidence and leadership and even where you are weaker and where it might be up to you to work harder, to see if you can push yourself that much more, to get out of your own way.
If you’re a female athlete you are defying the patriarchal odds.
You’re standing out as a woman for physicality that is not sexual but instead based on pure force and performance and strength and POWER that comes from taking your own biological body to the limits of training and perseverance and domination and self-belief.
Fair competition is an indisputably glorious thing.
Fair competition is female bodies competing against female bodies.
As everyone knows and understands, women compete against women because otherwise competition would be patently unfair.
Women do not have the same athletic advantages as the male body and the benefits of a male puberty and the strength that comes from a male body.
“Male bodies have 10-30 percent greater muscle strength, greater bone density, better oxygen efficiency, larger heart and lungs, more efficient pelvic Q-angle and elbow angles, as well as 10 percent more overall body mass,” explains Ross Tucker, of the Science of Sport podcast.
Can you imagine the psychological travesty if we were to force young women to compete with men and tell them to simply “try harder”?
And that their eyes and inner knowledge is wrong?
That the man with the penis undressing in front of them is actually a woman?
What institution could be so torturous and cruel as to punish elite female athletes by forcing them to shower and change next to a man who doesn’t cover up his intact penis and is stealing medals that rightfully belong to women—and then also be forced to call that man with the penis undressed in front of you a “woman”?
That would be abusive and insane, cruel and unusual.
Except it’s exactly what is happening in the Ivy League right now.
That’s what Penn is doing. They don’t want you to know.
I’m begging you: Know.
Are you familiar with Lia Thomas?
Lia Thomas is a slightly above average male athlete.
Sure, he didn’t set records. He didn’t make history. He didn’t make headlines. Because he was competing against other men, after all, and that’s what fair competition does is root out who is the best, and the best was not Lia.
Or Will as the man liked to be called then.
This is a very clever mediocre man though.
Because this mediocre man figured out that if he physically dominated against weaker women, he would win!
Clever man. That Lia is a very clever man to understand how to say the right things in order to win the medals. That’s one of the most impressive and terrifying things about Gender Ideology. You can actually use it to take away women’s rights.
How many cults can you say that about?
Now can you imagine being a female athlete today?
The mindset of success can be the trickiest part for a female athlete.
It requires you to believe in yourself in such an extraordinary way that allows you to surpass the psychological limitations we often put on ourselves in justifying giving up or not pushing ourselves that much harder.
There is, of course, one great crusher to all of this hard work.
That is demoralization.
If you can successfully demoralize a young woman by making her compete against empirically physically dominant male bodies, she will know that she cannot win.
The competition is rigged. She is now being set up to be humiliated.
Do you know what humiliation is?
Humiliation is when you are asked to participate in a game that is rigged and you are conscripted into your own subjugation by being told that you are in fact the one who is wrong.
Are you familiar with DARVO?
If you’ve ever tangled with a malignant narcissist, you likely know DARVO intimately.
D is for Deny.
That’s what University of Penn does when it denies that this 6’4” man with a penis and a back twice as wide as any young woman on the team and the benefit of male puberty is now a woman because he simply says he is a woman. Can you identify out of a penis? You cannot. You have a penis. You are a male. He is a man. Reality matters. Words matter. Evolution and science and reality matter. Don’t let people take it from you. This is an important point.
A is for Attack.
That’s what University of Penn does when it preemptively tells any young woman to shut up for speaking out against the abuse she is systematically enduring by having to unfairly compete with a man whom she can never beat and who can always beat her and force her to call him a woman. “You’re a bigot, you’re a made-up-word that never existed before, you’re bad, you’re bad, you’re bad, you’re a phobe, you’re bad, you’re bad.” Attack and try to trigger toxic shame. When you trigger toxic shame, a person who has been abused in the past reverts and retreats and paralytically is quiet because she has been told that she is bad so often that any implication of the sort effectively shuts her up. Don’t let attacks trigger toxic shame. It’s a trick. You’re not bad. Anyone who ever reinforces a negative self-conception is someone who is not a fair or credible debater. They’re using the techniques of emotional terrorism. Call it what it is.
R-V-O is for Reverse Victim and Offender.
That’s what the University of Penn does when it paints any critic of Lia Thomas as being a phobe. A young woman who understands she should not have to get undressed in front of a man or allow him to get out his penis in front of her is not a phobe of anything except for perhaps her own abuse. Don’t trust anyone who tries to indoctrinate you into a narrative where you are conscripted as the Failing Moral Agent. You are not. You are a good person who understands reality. Reality is not hate. Reality is reality.
Women’s sports are over if we allow this to continue. They are done.
I’d like to ask you one small favor. Please listen to the stunning testimony of this Mother of a Swimmer interview.
It’s like a moment captured in time of what happens when Alice wakes up in Captured America Land.
Mother of a Swimmer backgrounds us:
A little history, for those unaware.
Prior to renaming, Will was a respectable Ivy League swimmer, finishing second at conference in the distance events of the 500,000 and 16 50-yard freestyles.
Will was not an NCAA championship swimmer.
…Fast forward a few weeks to the mid season travel meets where Lia posted the fastest times in the country among women, faster than the NCAA winning times from the previous year and faster than all of our Olympians still racing in women’s collegiate swimming.
All of a sudden, everyone but the major news networks was talking.
I want you to consider and understand this.
Thomas went from being unqualified for the NCAA to being faster than any Olympian still racing in women’s collegiate swimming.
In the words of editor-in-chief of Swimming World John Lohn, the advantage that Thomas has is the same effect as if Thomas was doping.
In his words: “Today’s woke athletic culture fails to recognize that identities don’t play sports, bodies do.”
Mother of a Swimmer continues with a chilling tale:
I called a lawyer that I knew at the ACLU…
I made clear that I didn’t want to offend but pleaded that it seemed there was an obvious conflict here for women who already have so much less opportunity in sport, to now have to give spaces away to individuals who identify as women.
I was met with the single most stunning response I’ve ever received on any issue. I was told that the words biological and genetic have no business being in a discussion around sex and gender. I was told trans women are women. They are female. They’re girls, no language that minimizes that point should be tolerated. I was told it was an offensive question. My language was “out of date.” I was told that sex and gender are equally important and that the ACLU is actively removing sex from legal documentations and legal language. I tried to gently prod at the preposterous arguments I was hearing and I was met with an absolute brick wall when she concluded with, “Let me tell you with certainty, ‘The ACLU will never represent cis women against women.’”
I didn’t sleep that night. The wool had been utterly stripped from my eyes.
I want you to consider how terrifying this anecdote is.
The ACLU slurs, subjugates and reclassifies biological women as being less than the superior trans women who are, in their words, the real women who need protection here.
Disgusting. Total gaslighting garbage.
You can’t use words to redefine what reality is. The reality is that Thomas is a cheat and Penn has enabled Thomas’s abusive mockery of female sporting competition and the humiliation of its female athletes. There has been no protection of them. There has been no care. It is nothing short of a scandal.
Mother of a Swimmer continues her plea:
I could not bear to see women’s sports redefined and reworked to no longer be a place where women could pursue and celebrate the physical events without comparing themselves to men.
While I was reading, my daughter and the rest of the girls in the Ivy League were getting another kind of education.
The kind no one should receive.
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The girls—already caught off guard and intimidated but upset—were now silenced. They were manipulated, coerced and emotionally blackmailed.
Girls, they were essentially told, remember to put the man first.
They were told their leagues and their schools had spoken and made their positions clear…[T]hey were told their first priority needed to be the safety and protection of their trans classmates who are being thrust into the media. Any harm or damage that befell their classmates due to expressing opinions that might not support them would be their responsibility. Work done message received now there was little to no chance they would speak out.
I know girls from Harvard, Penn Yale and Dartmouth that all received various versions of this same message. After these meetings, I spoke to my daughter the influence was clear.
One of the more heart-wrenching parts of this mother’s plea is in hearing the very real process of ritualization of not freaking out that her daughter employed before the meet.
As Mother of a Swimmer spoke, she burst into tears.
She had not done as well as her daughter, she fretted, who knew that no matter what, she could not cry.
I know that my daughter took two days to emotionally prepare.
She spent the day writing down her thoughts, working through her emotions, trying to mentally prepare for standing in front of a crowd next to a man where everyone present knew the race was unfair, but no one would speak, she knew she would not win.
But this was not about shame and losing.
This was about being asked to measure her worth as a female athlete, next to a pharmaceutically hamstrung man who would make her look like a child.
Yet she worked through how to shake hands at the end of the race and how to make sure that she wouldn’t cry. That’s something I’m apparently not doing.
She also worked through how many towels to take into her bag into the locker room in case she needed to cover herself completely as she changed.
All the girls knew Lia was still physically intact and had been using the locker rooms.
It turned out that stress was not necessary as Lia used another locker room space during the meet.
But it came up again before Ivy Championships where the girls usually share a space for all the teams.
I asked my daughter what she would do if Lia was changing in there.
And she said resignedly, “I’m not sure I have a choice.”
I still can’t believe I had to tell my adult-age daughter, “You always have a choice about whether you undress in front of a man. What messages have these girls been receiving this year?”
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Day after day, we watched as a young lady was replaced in a final swim, replaced on the podium, raised from a record a relay spot and finally replaced by a man—a 6’4” man with a back twice as wide as any one of the girls out there.
…I cannot believe that we are having to argue that women and girls deserve to be able to get dressed and undressed without men in their locker rooms. …I want this to go away, but I need it to stay in the limelight. And in the news. Now that I see it, now that I know, I desperately want people to wake up to the world we are creating for women before everything is gone.
We’re almost there.
Please don’t speak up before it’s too late.
They can’t fire all of us. They can’t humiliate all of us. They can’t shame all of us.
Keep going.
Mother of a Swimmer, thank you.
You and your daughter are both true and actual champions.