International Women’s Day

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Mar 21

RE: various articles in the Hamilton Spectator of 8 Mar 21.

Male domination of the world is safe for another year.  From the coverage of International Women’s Day, feminists are completely missing the boat.  They carp about old issues that were answered decades ago and say nothing about the issue of today that are eating the advances made for women since the 1970s.

That “the average woman is paid less than the average man” is a canard that was explained fifty years ago by American economist Thomas Sowell, which I independently confirmed for the Hamilton Mountain riding 1980 Federal election.  The croakers about “pay equity” aren’t interested in answers; they just want the issue to croak about.

Then, there’s “Given the chance, women can lead African economic recovery.”  Why do they need to be “given a chance?”  Why don’t they just seize the opportunity like a man would?

The croakers get warmer in the article “Gender-based violence is a human rights issue.”  Maybe it is unfair that men are physically bigger and stronger than women, and more prone to violence.  That’s the human condition.  But what about the inhuman condition revealed in the word ‘gender’?  Women’s sports are soon to be dominated by biological males that “identify” as women.

This is the issue of the day in American college and high school sports.  Biological males are taking away sports scholarships from biological women.  Feminists completely ignore this issue, but they’d get plenty of help from dads who want their daughters to compete on a level playing field.

As a branch of progressivism, feminism has to be careful about what it carps about.  How wonderful transgenderism is is the cause de jure, and if feminists complain about the problem transgenderism causes women, they’d get cancelled out of the movement. 

The famous female tennis star Martina Navratilova and the famous female author J.K. Rowling are cases in point.

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