I got an email from Amazon the other day telling me about a book that they think I might want to read. The accolades for the book went something like this: “This is the number one best seller of any fourth book in a series written by this author!”. I kid you not. I’m thinking that’s Amazon’s literary version of a participation trophy.
It occurred to me when I read the email that records can be defined so narrowly that they become meaningless. After all, Amazon tried to amaze me by defining criteria that only a single person in the entire world could accomplish.
Which is why I’ve never understood the reason why so many people are so proud of being the “first” at something. For example, saying that someone is the first black person to do something, or the first Hispanic woman to do something seems to imply that somehow being black or Hispanic or a woman makes you somehow less than other people doing the same thing.
If I won first prize in a burrito-making competition, I wouldn’t want to be known as the first white man to take home the championship. I would just want to be known as the winner. Of course, that would never happen because someone would undoubtedly accuse me of cultural appropriation for making burritos in the first place. My title would be stripped, and I’d be cancelled.
But if I did win, it would be because of my burrito-making prowess and not because I’m a white guy. And that’s what I’d want people to remember.
Having said that, I fully understand and support the need for separately recording the accomplishments of both men and women. Especially in sports. Men and women are different. Period. In a physical competition, men would nearly always have an unfair advantage over women. Men are, on average, stronger, larger and have more stamina than women. Not always. But more often than not.
So, keeping separate lists of records for men and women just makes good sense. If we don’t, then eventually men will hold every single record for everything.
When Roger Bannister ran a mile in under 4 minutes (3 minutes, 59.4 seconds to be precise) that was big news. All the world hailed his accomplishment.
Who was the first woman to run a 4-minute mile?
That’s a trick question. Because it hasn’t happened yet. The closest any woman has come is 4:12.33. That record is held by Sifan Hassan, an Ethiopian-Dutch runner. If a woman ever does succeed in running a 4-minute mile, that will be huge accomplishment for the female gender.
Maybe.
Regardless of what the Woke left tell you, there is a definite physiological difference between men and women. Anyone doubting that need look no further than the mile. Since 1954, around 1,600 men have run sub-4-minute miles. But not one woman. Some people believe that it’s physically impossible for a woman to break the 4-minute mile.
Of course, before Roger Bannister did it, a lot of people believed that it was physically impossible for any human to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. And look how that turned out. I think it’s safe to say that, eventually, maybe someday soon, a woman will be hailed for running a sub-4-minute mile.
But what if it’s not a woman that does it?
We’ve reached a point where we’re supposed to believe that it’s perfectly normal for a delusional, mentally ill man to pretend that he’s a woman, compete in women’s sports, and set performance records that everyone is supposed to believe matter. So, it’s entirely possible that the first woman to break the 4-minute mile will be a man.
When that happens. Yes, I said “when” because that’s the path we’re on. When a man makes women’s history, how are you going to feel? Unless things change, no matter how many real women follow in his footsteps, the first woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes will be a dude.
If I were a woman, I’d be totally pissed right now. Hell, I’m a man and I’m still pissed. Allowing men to break and hold female performance records is ridiculous. And it clearly demonstrates how little regard some people have for actual…you know…women.
Now, you might be tempted to argue that no elite male athlete would ever start to believe that he’s a woman. But look at Bruce Jenner. Granted, by the time he cut off his dangly bits he was way past the point where anyone would think of him as an elite athlete. But he’s proof that it could happen.
Take William Thomas for example. He’s a male collegiate swimmer who not too long ago started pretending that he’s a girl. Prior to this, while competing as a male, he was a less-than-mediocre swimmer ranking at about #462. But, after he “retooled” (pun intended) and started competing as a woman, he was ranked at #1. To be fair, I haven’t been able to confirm the #1 ranking. But it’s safe to say that, when competing as a woman, he ranked much higher than #462.
At a tournament last year, while competing as a woman, he won the 1650m freestyle event. He beat the second-place finisher, who is an actual female, by 38 seconds. Yes, I said 38 seconds. Can anyone honestly believe that was a fair race? Since then, he’s set numerous records. While pretending to be a woman.
Recently, the headlines have been saying that William (well, they call him “Lia”) Thomas is the first known transgender athlete to win a Division I national championship. But aren’t we supposed to believe that William/Bill/Billy is a woman? If he truly is a woman, why refer to him as “transgender” at all? If there’s only one kind of woman, then how someone became a woman should be irrelevant. Right?
However, if there’s more than one type of woman, then we should be tracking the performance of the different types of women separately.
But enough about swimming and the mentally ill person formerly known as William Thomas.
Let’s get back to track and field. There are already a bunch of male athletes competing as women in track and field events. Which means that there are already thousands of women athletes whose best hope is to come in second.
It’s only a matter of time before one of these men manages to break women’s record for running the mile. And soon after that, a man will be the first woman to break the 4-minute barrier. When that happens, it will crush the souls of hundreds of elite women athletes who have been pursuing that goal for their entire lives.
Do you know why I’m so confident that a man will be the first woman to run a 4-minute mile? Roger Bannister did it first in 1954. For the last 68 years, countless elite women athletes have tried and failed. Women like Sifan Hassan have come close, but not close enough.
But here’s the thing. It doesn’t take an elite male athlete to run a 4-minute mile. Thirteen high school boys have done it. Just in the United States. So, I’d say it’s much more likely that a male with delusions of femininity will claim the women’s record before an actual woman.
Little girls need strong role models to show them what’s possible and motivate them to be their best. Say you’re the parent of a little girl, would you want her to grow up aspiring to be Sifan Hassan? Or do you want her to grow up pretending she’s a man pretending to be a woman? It’s an easy choice for me.
This entire situation is insane and needs to be fixed. But fixing it isn’t something that men can do. The only way this nonsense is going to stop is if women make it stop.
Unless women everywhere collectively rise up and scream “Enough!”, before too long real females will be forever relegated to the “also ran” category. And then, instead of awards and accolades, they’ll go home with a nice participation trophy.
