I'm looking forward to this series. I hope it's as good as the mask series, which has become an important resource.
Your experience with the CBC resonates with me. I don't have a radio or TV, but I do have a radio in the car. When I first came to Canada I would listen to the CBC on the way home from work. I quite enjoyed it. Something happened in the last 15 years. I found myself switching the radio on less and less until I stopped listening altogether. Then, about 2 years, I was curious and switched it on again one day. I almost immediately switched it off - crazy ideology on a "science" program. I tried again about a year ago, and the same thing happened. What's the odds? To be honest, I burst out laughing. But this is serious. I suspect that long-time listeners have been trickle fed this nonsense so slowly over the course of a decade or more that they don't realize just how far they have moved from real science. The ideological programming is even more effective because people are just casually listening to it as they go about their daily lives, as opposed to concentrating and critically questioning what is being propagated.
After a decade of certain hiring practices and "professional development", the CBC will probably now be beyond redemption. I suggest that it is shut down. The $1.5 billion/per year saved would be good too.
Excellent. I'd only quibble with one point. Visual acuity/tracking. Yes, in society as we know it, statistically speaking, men have more visual acuity on average than women. Studies have tried to demonstrate that it's a Y chromosome thing, and have failed. When it comes to visual acuity, exposure to visual acuity tasks at an early age makes a huge difference, as does training. Female archers are not different than male archers in their visual acuity, they are different than male archers in the distance/power they can generate from their sexually dimorphic upper body.
On average, women's ability to distinguish between colours is much higher than men's on average. Of course, like with all Olympic sports, sports that would show up a female advantage don't exist. But if you're a hunter out in nature 7000 years ago, before societies sedentarised invented random rules of behaviour, a female archer might have been MORE accurate, but sadly, at a shorter distance.
I don't know if it's still done, but in Québec, to pass from elementary school to high school, one had to succeed at standardised testing in grades 5 and 6 (no "grade 7" in Québec, there's 5 years of high school, then two years of college, which are before entrance into university). I was an Anglo atheist in a French Catholic system, I had no friends, because I also had very poor social skills (as you can likely pick-up in my comments ;) ) ... But I rated 99th to 91th percentile in the many tests, the lowest percentile being the French test. For an outcast, seeing those numbers was a huge boon to my self-esteem, and life after that played out differently, except for the social skills part. I was also an excellent archer as a kid, but I didn't pursue it because in my far away village, there was no outlet for it. But I still out-see most of the male birders I go out on trips with. I can pick out a bird shape in a tree at kilometres away, even while driving. But I grew up as an outdoor athletic foresty tomboy.
But I ABSOLUTELY throw like a girl. It's always been a HUGE frustration for me! I can hit the baseball, I can kick the ball, but I can't for the life of me throw. It's also why women play "softball" instead of "baseball", because the throwing technique is entirely different. It makes me cry with laughter when I see women complain that there's no female baseball. Our arm-injury rate would be extreme!
My fourteen year old grandson who plays soccer for a top provincial team in Northern Ireland (under 15 ) played the women’s international team a couple of weeks ago and beat them 4-1 there was no publicity ignored as far as I am aware . They were disappointed at the one goal allowed in .
As for CBC, oh yes! I used to have CBC on 24h a day (were I able to) and love Peter Zowsky and Vicky Gaborough and all those classics! CBC was my life!
I lived in the US for a decade from 1999-2008 or so, and when I returned to Canada, it's like I was never able to re-adapt. Every time the CBC spoke about such or such a person/event/culture in the US, I was horrified at the constant misrepresentations!
I had already been banned from atheist groups in 2008 for not complying with men in women's spaces. I was a feminist (second not third wave kind) and all I wanted was for a "atheist feminist discussion group among women, so we could debate, among female atheists, or talk about menstruation, among female atheists, and that was disallowed. That's when I started looking for the "gender critical" blogs on the internet. They already existed, and the women running them were already suffering bans and had to constantly return under pseudonyms.
Trans activists were AMAZING strategists. They played the long game. They entered women's sports in the 70s (Navratilova's male trans coach) and saw the pushback, so chose instead to take over all our democracy infrastructures, committees, clubs, associations, etc. They also were very adept at coding and internet languages, and already in 2008, trans were running the security scam on the internet.
Like so many things, sports will be completely ruined as well. What a clown world we are living in. Are we all going to implode? Males identifying as female in sports, in prisons, in school - where will this end?
(edit: I just noticed adding spaces doesn't work in comment section, so can't properly this response)
I also want to re-emphasize all this bs didn't start 5 years ago as many newly arrived gender critics claim. All this bs has been in the works for a long time (trans were very computer and democracy literate and played the long game)! here are just the few who were out about and made a fuss about in the press. There are many others who were silent, or never caught big public attention. I'm staggering sport vs the rest here, for the benefit of those who may be new to the LONG version, just off the top of my head (and Canadian men played a huge role in this):
- 1974 first "out" male athlete larping as a woman in female tennis: "Renee" Richards,
Navratilova's male coach. At least he now recognises that was not "fair". But do you
see him out there trying to fix things, no siree...
------1974-78 "Sandy" Stone was sound engineer for the women's music label, Olivia Records
collective, and began collaboration within lesbian feminist circles. In the early 1980s,
Stone built a small computer, taught HIMself programming, and became a freelance
coder, eventually becoming recognized as a computer expert.
------1991 men larping as women start attacking the women's music festival Michfest.
Michfest was born in 1975 to become a place where women could hang out
with each other in an all female and very lesbian musical environment, much of
the time naked or topless, in complete safety, and also to promote independent
female artists, which in the 1970s, was just a burgeoning phenomenon.
One of these men was "Dana" Rivers, who in 1999 won his legal case over
wrongful firing from being a teacher, who then in 2016 murdered two lesbians
and their adopted son. In December 2022 he was finally found guilty. Tried
I like to follow cycling, and the male vs female divide is very clear in normal races. Again, the junior men can time trial faster than the elite women. It is interesting though that ultramarathon races the women can win.
I'm looking forward to this series. I hope it's as good as the mask series, which has become an important resource.
Your experience with the CBC resonates with me. I don't have a radio or TV, but I do have a radio in the car. When I first came to Canada I would listen to the CBC on the way home from work. I quite enjoyed it. Something happened in the last 15 years. I found myself switching the radio on less and less until I stopped listening altogether. Then, about 2 years, I was curious and switched it on again one day. I almost immediately switched it off - crazy ideology on a "science" program. I tried again about a year ago, and the same thing happened. What's the odds? To be honest, I burst out laughing. But this is serious. I suspect that long-time listeners have been trickle fed this nonsense so slowly over the course of a decade or more that they don't realize just how far they have moved from real science. The ideological programming is even more effective because people are just casually listening to it as they go about their daily lives, as opposed to concentrating and critically questioning what is being propagated.
After a decade of certain hiring practices and "professional development", the CBC will probably now be beyond redemption. I suggest that it is shut down. The $1.5 billion/per year saved would be good too.
Excellent. I'd only quibble with one point. Visual acuity/tracking. Yes, in society as we know it, statistically speaking, men have more visual acuity on average than women. Studies have tried to demonstrate that it's a Y chromosome thing, and have failed. When it comes to visual acuity, exposure to visual acuity tasks at an early age makes a huge difference, as does training. Female archers are not different than male archers in their visual acuity, they are different than male archers in the distance/power they can generate from their sexually dimorphic upper body.
On average, women's ability to distinguish between colours is much higher than men's on average. Of course, like with all Olympic sports, sports that would show up a female advantage don't exist. But if you're a hunter out in nature 7000 years ago, before societies sedentarised invented random rules of behaviour, a female archer might have been MORE accurate, but sadly, at a shorter distance.
I don't know if it's still done, but in Québec, to pass from elementary school to high school, one had to succeed at standardised testing in grades 5 and 6 (no "grade 7" in Québec, there's 5 years of high school, then two years of college, which are before entrance into university). I was an Anglo atheist in a French Catholic system, I had no friends, because I also had very poor social skills (as you can likely pick-up in my comments ;) ) ... But I rated 99th to 91th percentile in the many tests, the lowest percentile being the French test. For an outcast, seeing those numbers was a huge boon to my self-esteem, and life after that played out differently, except for the social skills part. I was also an excellent archer as a kid, but I didn't pursue it because in my far away village, there was no outlet for it. But I still out-see most of the male birders I go out on trips with. I can pick out a bird shape in a tree at kilometres away, even while driving. But I grew up as an outdoor athletic foresty tomboy.
But I ABSOLUTELY throw like a girl. It's always been a HUGE frustration for me! I can hit the baseball, I can kick the ball, but I can't for the life of me throw. It's also why women play "softball" instead of "baseball", because the throwing technique is entirely different. It makes me cry with laughter when I see women complain that there's no female baseball. Our arm-injury rate would be extreme!
My fourteen year old grandson who plays soccer for a top provincial team in Northern Ireland (under 15 ) played the women’s international team a couple of weeks ago and beat them 4-1 there was no publicity ignored as far as I am aware . They were disappointed at the one goal allowed in .
As for CBC, oh yes! I used to have CBC on 24h a day (were I able to) and love Peter Zowsky and Vicky Gaborough and all those classics! CBC was my life!
I lived in the US for a decade from 1999-2008 or so, and when I returned to Canada, it's like I was never able to re-adapt. Every time the CBC spoke about such or such a person/event/culture in the US, I was horrified at the constant misrepresentations!
I had already been banned from atheist groups in 2008 for not complying with men in women's spaces. I was a feminist (second not third wave kind) and all I wanted was for a "atheist feminist discussion group among women, so we could debate, among female atheists, or talk about menstruation, among female atheists, and that was disallowed. That's when I started looking for the "gender critical" blogs on the internet. They already existed, and the women running them were already suffering bans and had to constantly return under pseudonyms.
Trans activists were AMAZING strategists. They played the long game. They entered women's sports in the 70s (Navratilova's male trans coach) and saw the pushback, so chose instead to take over all our democracy infrastructures, committees, clubs, associations, etc. They also were very adept at coding and internet languages, and already in 2008, trans were running the security scam on the internet.
This war has been a long time in the making.
Very well written, thank you.
Like so many things, sports will be completely ruined as well. What a clown world we are living in. Are we all going to implode? Males identifying as female in sports, in prisons, in school - where will this end?
(edit: I just noticed adding spaces doesn't work in comment section, so can't properly this response)
I also want to re-emphasize all this bs didn't start 5 years ago as many newly arrived gender critics claim. All this bs has been in the works for a long time (trans were very computer and democracy literate and played the long game)! here are just the few who were out about and made a fuss about in the press. There are many others who were silent, or never caught big public attention. I'm staggering sport vs the rest here, for the benefit of those who may be new to the LONG version, just off the top of my head (and Canadian men played a huge role in this):
- 1974 first "out" male athlete larping as a woman in female tennis: "Renee" Richards,
Navratilova's male coach. At least he now recognises that was not "fair". But do you
see him out there trying to fix things, no siree...
------1974-78 "Sandy" Stone was sound engineer for the women's music label, Olivia Records
collective, and began collaboration within lesbian feminist circles. In the early 1980s,
Stone built a small computer, taught HIMself programming, and became a freelance
coder, eventually becoming recognized as a computer expert.
------1991 men larping as women start attacking the women's music festival Michfest.
Michfest was born in 1975 to become a place where women could hang out
with each other in an all female and very lesbian musical environment, much of
the time naked or topless, in complete safety, and also to promote independent
female artists, which in the 1970s, was just a burgeoning phenomenon.
One of these men was "Dana" Rivers, who in 1999 won his legal case over
wrongful firing from being a teacher, who then in 2016 murdered two lesbians
and their adopted son. In December 2022 he was finally found guilty. Tried
"insanity", failed, presently awaiting sentencing.
------1995 Vancouver, a man larping as a woman, "Kimberley" Nixon, demanded to
work at the Vancouver Rape Relief shelter as a woman's victim of rape councillor.
When VRR refused, he started a 10 year and three courts legal battle, which
VRR barely won, and they wouldn't win today. VRR was defunded by the City of
Vancouver three years ago following the activism of another famous Canadian
man larping as a woman, "Morgane" Oger.
------1999 Vancouver, a man larping as a woman, "Susan Mamela" demanded to
be a member of Vancouver's Lesbian Association, when they refused, he
sued them into bankruptcy.
- 2001 Canada's "Michelle" Dumaresq, first Canadian male athlete larping as a woman, starts
winning female downhill racing.
- 2001 Canada's "Kristen" Worley begins legal battle in Ontario to remove restrictions
to men larping as women to be able to compete against females.
- 2010 "Lana" Lawless (opposite sex surgeried in 2005) successfully sued WPGA to play
on women's tournament.
------2013 Alberta's "Cathy" Fitzpatrick challenged surgery requirement in Alberta
Court and won in 2015. He was and IT student, he's worked as security in
many internet gigs, banning women who dared to speak up on several websites.
He switched his studies from IT to legal and successfully represented himself
in the Alberta Court. Of course, since "sex change" is a lie, surgery don't
suddenly make it not a lie, which means the Alberta Court was right to
quash that requirement.
Maybe you can use something in here for your upcoming pieces.
Looking forward to part-3!
You DO know that amphibians are actually mammals, right?
I like to follow cycling, and the male vs female divide is very clear in normal races. Again, the junior men can time trial faster than the elite women. It is interesting though that ultramarathon races the women can win.