Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness
Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status.
Navratilova had the temerity to suggest that one’s sex is biologically determined. In other words, transgenderism, even with the imprimatur of the social and biological sciences, cannot trump our innate genetic codes.
A frustrated Navratilova was editorializing mostly in the context of men “transitioning” to women, while in many cases still enjoying innate muscular and size advantages over females in same-sex sporting events. As a result, she is being demonized unfairly as an intersectional traitor (“transphobic”) and thus increasingly disinvited from a number of events by what is known as the LGBTQ community.
In other words, her intersectional femaleness and gayness are revoked by improper ideology.
Barack Obama, once the progressive “god” who was acclaimed to have the power to cool the planet and halt the rising of the seas, had the recent audacity to suggest, quite understandably, that young black teens need not ostentatiously show their wealth with gaudy chains, or highlight their sexuality with a cadre of “twerking” girls. Worse, the now multi-million-dollar-mansion-residing Obama sort of suggested that young inner-city African-Americans who do such gauche things might be insecure about either their income or their sexuality.
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Dear VDH, Great analysis. A few comments. You discuss the similarity to Marxist-Leninism. I thought of that also. It seems the way the Left has entered this lemming-like race to the extreme left is reminiscent of Marism-Leninism in the 1930s where you had the extreme Marxist opposition to the Comintern's Popular Front in the fight against fascism. Moscow resolved the issue with "left-wing communism, an infantile disease". AO-C and her crew are the very epitome of a "left-wing disease". Another point, A O-C's last name, Cortez. Wasn't Cortez a murdering Spaniard who looted South/Central America? No politician would today use the name 'Hitler", why does she persist in using Cortez? On another issue, the Trump camp's view that it can do a deal with North Korea's Kim reminds me of LBJ's folly in thinking he could do a deal with Ho Chi Minh.
As once stated in a movie with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson: "You (they) can't handle the truth." There are only two sexes, no matter what the P.C. people profess otherwise.
Victor: Are you familiar with Peof.Leonard Steinhorn?