The same opportunities
ITV is really knocking itself out on the Emily Bridges front.
I forgot to comment on ITV’s provocation in the previous post about this one. Of course he wants special treatment: he wants to be allowed to compete against women even though he’s a man. That’s very special, and very unfair to women.
And of course they’re not his “fellow female athletes,” because he’s not female. He’s cheating them out of wins, and then he has the gall to demand “the same opportunities” they have. The opportunities to lose to opportunistic (see what I did there?) men who cheat by pretending to be women? No, he doesn’t mean those opportunities, he means the opportunities to compete against women. He wants to compete against women but he certainly doesn’t want other men to do the same, not in any competitions he wants to win.
Of course he can’t emphathise with women. If he could he wouldn’t be cheating by competing against women. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about women.
And no he’s not fighting against any patriarchal structures or attitudes. He’s fighting against feminist structures and attitudes.
Does empathy even matter here? Maybe I can empathize with him–so what? He still doesn’t belong in women’s sports.
The extension of empathy doesn’t make someone right about everything. Unless they’re trans.
It’s an excellent way to guilt-trip women though.
“My performance has decreased massively” he says. So what? That was your choice, to hamper your own performance. You’re now an inferior male athlete. Deal with it.
“…my fellow female athletes.”
Once upon a time, trans activists defended TWAW by claiming woman was a ‘gender word’, while female was a ‘biology word’. That is, woman referred to the social class and female referred to the sex. So much for that old line.
Holms, and they will turn around in the next breath and say “don’t conflate sex and gender! TERF!”