The True War on Women
/I’m sure you’ve heard of the phrase “war on women,” which the democrats strategically used on Senator Mitt Romney (of all people), back when he ran against President Barrack Obama. He tried to push back and direct that talking point to Obama’s economic policies, but he never stuck the landing. Thus, a repeated talking point was born.
The “war on women” is an accusation often thrown at GOP members who advocate against abortion, which Democrats sinisterly refer to as “reproductive rights.” Ironically, many spotlight-democrats won’t even admit women’s reproduction exclusively deals with women. Congresswoman Cori Bush calls pregnant women “birthing people.” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says, “people with periods,” because she lacks the moral courage to admit you can’t identify your way into having one.
If gender is about identity, why is it necessary for transwomen to claim biological realities like pregnancy and periods? They obviously see the value of sex and gender, so why are we putting up with this charade as if sex and gender aren’t intertwined?
Transgender Penn state swimmer Lia Thomas is making waves for smashing women’s records. His teammates are reportedly angry and have even been in tears. He’s beaten female competitors by forty seconds! Lia competed three years as a man and is now using his biological male privilege to dominate every woman in this field. I remember when feminists complained about men spreading their legs on the subway. They called it toxic masculinity, but this gets a pass? Again, if Lia identifies as a woman, that’s between him and his own mind. Why can’t he continue to compete with men?
The same can be asked of transgender Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard or NCAA champion CeCe Telfer. I’m not doubting the sincerity of their gender dysphoria, but transwomen are cashing in on notoriety and success that wouldn’t have been afforded to them as male athletes.
We’re supposed to applaud soccer player Megan Rapinoe for complaining about the wage gap—because more popular male athletes get higher payouts—yet we have to be quiet when trans mixed martial artist Fallon Fox fractures a woman’s orbital bone.
There is a war on women today, and women are supposed to shut up, smile, and take the beating.
J.K. Rowling was a beloved children’s author, and Harry Potter taught children the magic of friendship and fighting prejudices. Now, Rowling is targeted because she acknowledges women are women and have defended other women who acknowledged that as well. Rowling recently slammed Scotland for logging rapists as women, invoking George Orwell. “War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The penised individual who raped you is a woman.” HBO is noticeably leaving the author absent from their Harry Potter special, and the Hollywood Reporter noted Rowling’s “credit is nearly invisible in the new Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer.”
But the social pressure to disregard biological reality and condemn everyone who doesn’t play along, has serious ramifications beyond athletics and legality. Abigail Shrier is a pariah for writing Irreversible Damage, but she simply wrote the book because she believed it was true. “I wrote the book because the story of one mom and her teen daughter compelled me, and so did that of the dozens of other parents who then spoke to me—mothers and fathers who sobbed as they described how their daughters had become caught up in a craze that seemed completely inauthentic to the child, but which they were powerless to arrest.”
60-Minutes covered the transgender movement not too long ago. They reported on a young woman who self-diagnosed, found a doctor who reaffirmed her conclusion, chopped off her breasts, took hormones, then discovered she was wrong and detransitioned all within the span of a year. This is not normal, nor should it be acceptable.
A powerful fraction of society is trying to convince the rest of the world that men and women are interchangeable—while not being able to define what a woman is. It’s incredible that in 2016, feminism was such a dominant conversation in the political landscape, particularly for Democrats. After Hillary Clinton lost, Michelle Obama even said women voted against their own voice. Trump voters were largely resented, but the white women who broke for him were especially vilified. They were betrayers. Democrats worked so hard to gatekeep what women should do and how they should think. Now, they won’t even protect what a woman is. They’ve thrown women to the wolves in the name of oppression Olympics.
Who cares if it was your dream to be the NCAA champion? Dreams are for men who make their own reality. Better luck in the kitchen.
