This is extraordinary:

Megan Rapinoe claims banning transgender males from women’s sports is an “attack on women.”

“It’s an attack on women in society.”

https://x.com/i/status/2079814482969453020

The only reason why Rapinoe has an athletic career is that men’s and women’s team exist and don’t play against each other. She would not have a job if the boundaries between men’s and women’s sports weren’t strict and impermeable. But then she says these things, and I think she’s completely sincere. The human capacity to hide from reality is limitless.

Forget Rapinoe. This is a widespread phenomenon among academics whose 2-days-a-week full-time jobs are only possible for as long as nations exist. Yet they do everything to argue themselves out of existence. I’ve never been able to understand this. I’ve asked this question many times. But nobody says anything. They make faces at me but there’s never a reply. 

One response to “Arguing Yourself Out of Existence”

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    PaulS

    In SA, the division between black and white sports was strict and impermeable. This is why the 1995 rugby world cup was a key point in the end of apartheid.

    https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/invictus-2009

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