[subscribe2]From its start, feminism was nothing more than an extended rant against biology. It was not always obvious. The “first wave” of feminism, conveniently called first-wave feminism, was publicly about women getting the vote. It seems crazy now, but there used to be a time when your typical male knew it was a dumb idea to give women the vote. For most of human history, we knew Aristophanes was right. A century ago when women were looking for changes in the law, feminism did not look like an assault on nature. It was just portly broads making a nuisance of themselves in public.
Second-wave feminism is where the nuttiness bobbed above the water line. That’s where we get words like “gender” worming their way into our vocabulary. That is, sex is an arbitrary construct created by a race of pale penis people in the olden thymes to oppress women. The remedy was to smash up family life, give women a handful of rubbers and money for cab fare as dating aids and demand that men stop thinking about sex. Third-wave feminism takes this to another level of crazy where reality is infinitely negotiable. There we get a variety of new sexes, claims about women being witches from another planet and the sun revolves around the earth. I’m sort of joking, but it is hard to satire this level of crazy.
Crazy rants against nature in the abstract are one thing. Sitting in your college office ranting about the pale penis people has a different result than throwing yourself off the roof claiming you can fly. But, the crazy rants eventually lead to someone testing the theory. The insanity of feminism is now showing up in the emergency rooms of America as women and girls test the theory that there is no biological difference between men and women. At the Olympics, girls competing on courses built for men are getting hurt a lot.
Sarka Pancochova, a Czech snowboarder, led the slopestyle event after the first run. On her second trip down the course of obstacles and jumps, she flew through the air, performed a high-arcing, spinning trick and smacked her head upon landing. Her limp body spun like a propeller into the gully between jumps and slid to a stop.
Pancochova was soon on her feet, and the uneasy crowd cheered. Her helmet was cracked nearly in half, back to front.
She was one of the lucky ones, seemingly O.K., but her crash last week was indicative of a bigger issue: a messy collage of violent wipeouts at these Olympics. Most of the accidents have occurred at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, the site of the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events like halfpipe, slopestyle and moguls.
And most of the injuries have been sustained by women.
The rants against nature are not just showing up in silly snow activities. The US military is putting women in combat units. It is one thing for a gal to break her neck trying to ski like a boy. It is unfortunate and sad, but not the end of the world for anyone but her. Putting physically and mentally inferior soldiers into combat units is another matter. That’s where mother nature let’s you know reality is not negotiable. Men get killed because the combat units degrade. Plus, men in combat have a way to handle the physically and mentally unfit within their ranks.
Women are not men. Men are bigger, faster and stronger than women. This sounds radical, I’m sure, but we have data! This running dog lackey for the pale penis people conducted a study using the mountain of data collected by the military over the last 100 years. One of the ancillary benefits of having a massive standing army is a massive amount of data about the humans entering and serving in that standing army. It provides the best cross-section of the American population possible. Since America is a mixed society, it works as a handy proxy for the human race in general.
“Using the standard Army Physical Fitness Test … the upper quintile of women at West Point achieved scores on the test equivalent to the bottom quintile of men.”
West Point is a training center for the very best who are willing to join the Army. What the data shows is the best women are physically the same as the very worst men. That may not sound so bad, but according to the data, “the average 20-to-30 year-old woman has the same aerobic capacity as a 50 year-old man.” Anyone who has played sports, goes to the gym or lived on earth knows this is fairly obvious. On my frequent runs, I pass girls half my age, usually on hills. I’m not in great shape, but I can breeze through the military physical fitness tests.
If you’re reading this, and not doing so from an asylum, I’m going to assume you know that boys are not girls. Further, I’m going to assume you know it is a reckless and stupid idea to put women in combat and have girls trying to compete with boys in sports. There’s another bit to this. Women and men think differently too. For instance, there are differences in IQ. Males are over represented in fields like math and science, but under represented in nurturing professions like education and medicine. The difference between men and women show up across the range of human attributes.
I think putting women in charge of society, or giving them a legal voice, can have benefits. Men and women are different and they are complimentary. It has long been understood, for example, that marriage and family makes a man a better citizen. We used to judge our leaders on this harshly. Divorced men and homosexuals were barred from office as a practical matter.
If Women are good for men in the particular, then they must have a say in how society is run. The question is how much and through what means. Women were the driving force behind abolitionism. They were also behind Prohibition. The former gave us 600,000 corpses and the later gave us the Mafia and the Kennedy family. It is fair to ask if we made a mistake in how we allowed women to participate in the management of American society. To quote Judge Roy Bean:
Looking back, we had, in the person of Teddy Roosevelt, the finest President in the history of this country. He had the spirit and determination that matched the times and the land. Then the women got the vote, and everything went to hell. While our boys was overseas fighting the Kaiser, the women got Prohibition put in. Drinking and gambling and whoring were declared unlawful. All those things which come natural to men became crimes.
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