By Selwyn Duke
“Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” observed George Orwell. Making it worse today is that intellectuals are in short supply (and perhaps always were), leaving nonsense of the now to be propounded by pseudo-intellectuals. But, asserts one writer, the embrace of a certain fashionable absurdity — misnamed “gender ideology” — “has broken the media and their so-called ‘experts,’” robbing them of credibility.
At issue for Washington Examiner commentator Zachary Faria, writing Monday, is an Atlantic article titled “Separating [School] Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense.”
In it, one Maggie Mertens claims that “though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still don’t know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential.” She later adds that maintaining “this [sexual] binary in youth sports reinforces the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive setting — a notion that’s been challenged by scientists for years.”
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