“Trans” Molestation in Girls’ Wrestling. Can We Thank the Feminists?
“The end goal of feminist revolution must be … not just the elimination of male privilege,” wrote feminist Shulamith Firestone in 1970, “but of the sex distinction itself.”
“Genital differences between human beings,” she added, “would no longer matter culturally.”
Firestone doesn’t get much credit for it, but her standard became feminist dogma for decades. Beginning in the 1980s and continuing a bit beyond 2010 perhaps, the doctrine was this:
The sexes are the same except for the superficial physical differences; therefore, if you raise boys and girls identically, they will end up identical in inclination and capacity.
This dogma’s intensity was related well by a story contrarian feminist Camille Paglia once related. Other feminists would corner her on college campuses in the ’70s, she said, glaring at her over her dissenter status. They’d then insist that hormones didn’t even exist — and, even if they did, they couldn’t possibly influence human behavior.
From this sameness doctrine grew the idea, “A woman can do anything a man can — and maybe better!” Why, this was even applied to sports. The feminists claimed that females lagged behind males only because they hadn’t had “as much chance to develop themselves athletically.” Give them time, they insisted, and women would equal or even surpass men. Exaggeration?
Well, know that articles asserting this, or something close to it, were once regular journalistic fare. An example is a 2008 piece titled “Women and men in sports: Separate is not equal.” Its feminist authors asked, “Why is gender segregation in sports normal?”
Even more striking is a 1992 New York Times article titled, “2 Experts Say Women Who Run May Overtake Men.” It predicted that women should be running marathons as fast as men do by 1998. They’d subsequently catch up to males in shorter events by the middle of this century, the “experts” asserted.