One thing that gender ideology has exposed is that many members of our media and their scientific “experts” do not deserve the credibility their titles typically give them.
Take Maggie Mertens’s piece in the Atlantic calling for an end to gender-segregated school sports — which, in practical terms, means an end to women’s sports. Mertens writes that “though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still don’t know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential.”
Those “researchers” should be researching other lines of work, because science and sports evidently aren’t for them.
It is not a lack of resources that explains how the average NBA player is 6’6” and the average WNBA player is 6’0”. No lack of resources can explain how the record for dunks in one NBA game is 23, which is almost the same amount that the WNBA has seen in its entire 26-year history. No lack of resources can explain how world-class female sprinters and swimmers see their times regularly beaten by college men or high school boys who are average or barely above average.
You can go through sport by sport and athlete by athlete, from the world champion U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team losing badly to a teenage boys’ squad to Serena and Venus Williams losing handily to the No. 203 ranked man in tennis. Neither national women’s soccer teams nor the Williams sisters lack resources or support.
The average man is bigger, stronger, and faster than the average woman. You can’t blame “resources” or a “lack of support” for biological facts.
But Mertens quotes another “expert,” assistant sociology professor Michela Musto, because “professor” is a title that lends (often unearned) credibility. Musto claims that sports are the reason people believe in the gender binary and not the fact that … well, gender is binary.
“There are some boys who also could get really hurt if they were competing against other boys in contact sports,” Musto says. No kidding — but it’s entirely irrelevant. Just because some boys get hurt competing against boys in, say, football, doesn’t mean that boys wouldn’t dominate nearly all sports at the high school level if girls’ sports were abolished and the two sexes played together. Advocating an end to gender-segregated school sports means effectively arguing that girls do not deserve the opportunity to play sports. There would be no girls in basketball, soccer, track, or swimming at the high school, college, or professional levels because they would not beat out the second, third, or fourth-tier male athletes who can’t make their own teams.
But our establishment media are either too delusional to see that or so consumed by gender ideology that they do not care about facts.
You can find any number of “researchers” or professors to support absurd left-wing positions that defy basic biology, though, and so that is what they do. But their titles or their “expertise” do not change basic biological facts or the realities of competition. It only exposes that they, and the media figures who rely on them, are highly credentialed frauds.
