I don't wrestle women & I don't dance with men
We shouldn't be afraid to defend our natural sensibilities
I wrestled for Bogan High School in the 90s. Back then I never heard of girls’ wrestling, at least not on the south side of Chicago. But there were some female wrestlers. One season there was a girl on a rival team, in the same weight class as me…
Troubled by the prospect of wrestling a girl, I shared my dilemma with my classmate Ludyvina. She said, "If she's going to step up to you like a man, then take her down like a man." I appreciated the support. But still, it didn’t matter to me this girl stepped into a man's sport. She was not a man.
Wrestling is a combative sport. You use all your strength to forcefully take another person to the ground. You twist their body. You use their arms and legs as pry bars to force them to their back, as they use all their force to resist you. Using that level of force against a woman defies my natural sensibilities.
I told my coach I could not wrestle a girl. Thankfully, he found a teammate who had no problem wrestling a girl to take my place. I respected this girl and her choice to wrestle. Likewise, my coach respected my choice not to do something that disturbed my conscience in a fundamental way.
A superior new class of men has arisen. They’ve attained nobility status yet have no chivalry.
I’m glad girls’ wrestling is more common now and opportunities for women in sports have accelerated the past few decades. But over the past few years a destructive trend has swept across western societies. A superior new class of men has arisen. They’ve attained nobility status yet have no chivalry. And they are plundering these new opportunities from women. They are males who claim to be females and they’ve demanded entrance to women’s sports.
Proving western culture is under the spell of a dark delusion, their demands have been placated at the highest levels.
Lia Thomas is the most public example of this chivalry-lacking male, as Swimming World Magazine reported last year. “A three-year member of the men’s squad at Penn, Thomas transitioned … during the COVID-19 pandemic and joined the women’s team for the 2021-22 campaign. That move allowed Thomas to go from ho-hum male swimmer to the elite level [among females.] Want proof? In the 200 freestyle, Thomas was ranked in the mid-500s among men. [He] entered the NCAA Champs ranked No. 1 among women.”
In last year’s NCAA championship, Thomas supplanted Virginia’s Emma Weyant for the 1st place trophy in the freestyle 500 and intruded upon Kentucky’s Riley Gaines for a 5th place trophy in the freestyle 200.
Gaines spoke to U.S. Representatives on Capitol Hill February 1 for National Women and Girls in Sports Day. She addressed the trans male invasion of women’s sports and described the gaslighting and victim-shaming female athletes are subjected to.
She said, “No one has asked us how we felt. We exist to validate a male’s identity… Lia Thomas’ teammates, when they were concerned about the locker room situation and they sent an email to the Ivy League and the NCAA, their response was, ‘Here’s some counseling resources you should seek if you feel uncomfortable seeing male genitalia in your locker room.’ And then they were referred to the LGBTQ Education Center to educate themselves on the oppression that [trans] athletes are dealing with. So, no one in the NCAA is willing to acknowledge us, our feelings, our safety, our privacy...It is just so wild that you can turn around, see a 6-4 biological man pull his pants down watching you undress, and no one is willing to stick up for you?”
I recently wrote about an experience I had as a child in a YMCA locker room. I tried to understand how Rebecca Phillips, another public voice for the rights of girls and women, might have felt when she complained about a man stripping naked in the women’s locker room at a YMCA in Santee, California. Her experience with YMCA management, mainstream media and far-left political activists, was similar to that of NCAA female swimmers - gaslighting, victim-blaming and victim-shaming…
Unlike wrestling, dance is not combative. It is cooperative. You don’t force your opponent into submission. You gently lead your partner into synchrony. A few years ago I took a Latin dance class at a community college in San Diego. During practice, people separate into leads and follows and rotate partners. In dance, males tend to be leads and females tend to be follows, but in this class there was a male who joined the follow group. I feared that might happen. On the first day of class the instructor made a point to say, “There is no gender in this class.” When it was his turn to dance with me, I politely said, "I don't dance with men." He politely acknowledged my choice and we both sat that round out. I was respectful of his right to dance with men, and he was respectful of my right not to dance with men.
“I don’t dance with men.”
But then a woman in class gave me a hard time about it. “Why won’t you dance with him? How do you think that makes him feel?” she asked, as if I had done something wrong. She didn’t ask how the situation made me feel. I was expected to subjugate my feelings to a superior set of feelings, and once again turned into a social pariah just for having a conscience. I got a little taste of the subjugation women and girls are suffering at the hands of men who mimic women and their woke supporters.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 4:2 that people’s consciences will be “seared as with a hot iron.” When Rebecca Phillips’ conscience precluded her eyes from being exposed to the naked body of a man or from her naked body being exposed to the eyes of a man, the gender mimic who stripped naked in her locker room said her natural sensibilities must die like the Neanderthals did.
People are being brainwashed into believing their natural conscience, the source of moral sensibilities, is itself immoral. When a person objects to naked men in female locker rooms, they are accused of being “phobic.” When a person expresses sincere moral objections to calling a man a woman, their morality is framed as “hate.” This cult aspect of trans activism is seen in the psychological manipulation that produces converts and in the intimidation that silences many who secretly object.
One trans brainwashing tactic is the effort to force society to use trans pronouns. Amy E. Sousa, MA in Depth Psychology, commented in a Twitter roundtable discussion about gender pronouns hosted by Mario Nawfal on February 2. She said, “Pronoun usage is not benign. It is a way to introduce a cognitive dissonance into our language and culture. It works to dissociate us from our primary instincts for safeguarding, sex-recognition sense perceptions.”
She explains to me her own focus is on embodiment and using primary sense perceptions for self-protection. She says, “A child can't develop healthy bodily autonomy and boundaries if they are dissociated and can't trust the authority of their own body.”
The psychological manipulation to force gender mimicry on people is also being used as a manipulative doorway to force homosexuality on people. Again, it shows the dark delusion our society is under that a group of people is considered to have a civil right to do something to other people that meets every definition of sexual harassment, and in some cases sex crimes.
People all over the world are waking up to the danger of the transgender revolution (and the overarching woke revolution.) The Christian Post reported last week a girls’ high school basketball team in Vermont forfeited a game against a team that allowed a male to play, because it “sets a bad precedent” and “jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players.”
Jane Austen seemed to attribute value to the natural sensibilities of men and women through a comment by Colonel Brandon in “Sense and Sensibility.” She wrote, “There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”
Let’s continue the counterrevolution against woke indoctrination, and protect the good & natural prejudices of young minds.
Stay tuned for more on how we shouldn’t be afraid to defend nature, natural rights and natural sensibilities from the agenda to destroy them.
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