Our good friend, the very lovely Amanda Marcotte of Salon magazine, in a three-part skeet on Bluesky explained to us why she is so very supportive of males claiming to be female participating in women’s sports.

The end game of this was always “we have to end women’s sports to protect cis women from trans women.”

I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn’t just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers.

Undergirding all transphobic rhetoric around women’s sports is this idea that women’s sports aren’t “real” sports, because cis women’s bodies are incapable of true athleticism.

I am trying, and admittedly failing, to understand how this makes sense. Did Miss Marcotte miss the resurgence in the WNBA, thanks primarily to the rookies Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Cameron Brink? Of course, some of our good friends on the left were telling us that the resurgence is just because Miss Clark is white and heterosexual, but that ignores the fact that recent WNBA stars like Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart — both of whom play for the New York Liberty, in America’s biggest media market — and Kelsey Plum are also white, and did not generate the kind of excitement Miss Clark did. Nor does it take into account that Miss Clark challenged and then broke Pete Maravich’s career NCAA scoring record. That story was all over my feed, and it didn’t come from nowhere.

Miss Clark played NCAA basketball at the University of Iowa, and professionally in Indiana, two very red states.

Ending women’s sports is where it’s headed, if you are paying even the slightest attention.

That’s pretty much the biggest laugher: who is trying to end women’s sports? Women’s sports would take a far bigger hit if males were allowed to play in them. Where would the viewership go if men males pretending to be women were entered and seriously contending for wins and championships?

But here’s where Miss Marcotte tells us her real motive:

I’d be fine with banning boxing altogether (even though shadow kickboxing is a favorite workout). But that’s not the proposal here. The idea is women are categorically inferior to men. They go for low-hanging fruit like boxing, but eventually even basketball is too much for delicate ladies.

Emphasis mine.

Let’s tell an obvious truth, one that even the most hardened leftist should understand: men and women are different. And they are different in ways that make a difference in sports. Miss Marcotte is just dreadfully, dreadfully worried that the differences between males and females in sports must somehow translate to women being inferior to men in everything.

This is where conservatives are just more sensible than leftists. We aren’t really concerned that women have overtaken and passed men in the number of collegiate admissions and degrees earned. We aren’t really concerned that most new physicians and lawyers are now women, because we know that professional school admissions are things which are earned, not simply awarded. Unlike Affirmative Action based on race or ethnicity, it simply took opening up spots to women in general that resulted in women competing on an equal basis with men in collegiate admissions.

And it’s reciprocated on the distaff side: women don’t seem to be truly concerned that most construction workers and roofers and plumbers and electricians are men. If a woman learns these skills, and shows up looking for a job, companies are willing to give her a chance. I’ve had female concrete mixer drivers working for me before I retired, and one of the best drivers was a woman. But, other than her, the rest were pretty much like most of the male drivers: average.

They go for low-hanging fruit like boxing, but eventually even basketball is too much for delicate ladies.

This is kind of silly. More, the surge in popularity of women’s basketball, which surely a resident of Philadelphia would see, or at least hear about — the major issue in Philly is now over the approval of 76 Place, the proposed new downtown arena for the hapless 76ers, which adds to the push for a WNBA expansion team — gives the lie to her statement. Major companies are betting, putting out their own money, on shoe contracts for Miss Ionescu, A’ja Wilson, Jewell Loyd, Miss Stewart, Chelsea Grey, Miss Clark, and a few others.

The ‘rivalry’ between Misses Clark and Reese has been over-hyped, because while both are good players, their talents and styles of play are completely different, but the hype has been good for business and league exposure.

Perhaps the loss by Vice President Kamala Harris Emhoff to former and now future President Donald Trump has spurred Miss Marcotte to ever greater depths of silliness, but what she skeeted out is just idiocy.

And she even knows it! She posted on Salon, only a week ago, in an attack on the ‘Trad Wives’ meme:

A 2023 study from Pew Research shows that in 45% of marriages, the wife makes as much or more money than her husband. Women on TikTok may pretend that men handle most family finances, but in reality, women do. Most studies show around 90% of women in relationships make the most financial decisions or split that duty in half with a partner.

Things like the ‘Traditional Wife” notion seem to just offend Miss Marcotte, offend her personally, because, well just because. That some women might opt for different lifestyles seems to grate on her, but that’s understandable when you realize that, for so many of our friends on the left, they are pro-choice on one and only one thing.

To Miss Marcotte, any differences at all are a mark of inferiority, and she just can’t let the facts get in her way. Would I be wrong if I suspected that she’s not the only feminist/leftist who thinks that way?