The ghost of Rush Limbaugh appears to be animating Woke feminist sports pundits
Supporting the derogation and cancellation of successful women—from the supposed political left—means only one thing, and it's an ugly truth
Even after processing the slow bleed of confused and rudderless teenage boys into girls’ sports over the past several years, I still balk at admitting the obvious: That Woke women feminists flat-out hate women who have achieved elite standing, professionally or athletically. The ones drawn to running punditry post interview after fawning interview of female distance runners not because they admire what those women have done but because they can compartmentalize their jealousy for long enough to cobble together another chirpy 800-worder to brag about on Instagram.
It seemed weird, for a while, that the same women who have long made it clear that they want men to have as little influence over female distance runners as possible—especially in coaching roles—are also the most ardent proponents for allowing female sports to be wrecked by allowing the aforementioned wayward boys to participate as girls in high school and collegiate athletics. And why, too, would they write story after go-girl story about athletes like 800-meter star Ajee Wilson, then ignore the fact that Wilson was the first woman across the finish line in the 2016 Olympic 800-meter final, but earned no medal because the top three finishers were “intersex,” i.e., male?
It doesn’t seem weird anymore. And it was obvious from the start why women who radiate loneliness, misandry and harrowing defeatism at all times would behave in this seemingly contradictory way; it just feels grim to point out that a bunch of people are hurt by basic things about themselves that are largely immutable and certain to become more depressing as the years pass.
Yes, the women in this sports-adjacent group—who all comically see themselves as liberals despite being bellicose, authoritarian, and overtly delusional—despise not having what the women they interview and write about and tag on social media have. But it’s better to be a hater who can gain add a few thousands online followers to her empty life by playing journalist, and maybe even eke out a living in the process, than one who merely sits at home joining the Facebook groups of the quietly perma-seething bunhugger-sniffers at the top of the destructive comms-chain.
This theory gains a lot of traction when someone who writes a newsletter she calls “a no-BS newsletter about sexism in sports” and has nearly 30,000 Twitter followers to go with a lot of paying subscribers—and who has been praised in Alison Wade’s Fast Women newsletter—produces this:
The tweet is over a year and a half old, but Greenwald recalled being tagged in it because of some recent happenings in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between a quack doctor and a huge man in a hoodie with serious heart problems.
And how did Gibbs respond? By playing the victim. Instead of replying to the tweet, she retweeted Greenwald with “I didn’t know anything about the Dasha/Fetterman stuff, and certainly haven’t tweeted about it, but thanks for QTing a tweet of mine from over a year ago and bringing me into this, how fun.” Look, jackass, you wrote it, now take some responsibility for it instead of complaining that a real reporter, and one with a vindictive streak of his own, has caught you in a contradiction, and inviting your harpy followers to go after him with red-herring nonsense.
Taylor Lorenz is a psychopath. She’s not merely a servant of the Democratic elite (and here I mean “elite” in terms of wealth and status, not accomplishments or traits worthy of admiration); she is plainly disturbed. I implore you to watch this—the 78 minutes pass with uncanny speed—but if you’re not convinced by all the out-in-the-open lying and deleting of tweets and denial of having just done so for thousands of people to see even in the face of an equal number of screen-captures of those deleted tweets being lobbed her way, just know that while she happily battles it out with men —she and Greenwald have an endless bitch-session going, if only because there is no referee to keep noting the continual knocking of Lorenz to the mat—her signature accomplishment has been ruining the careers of women more successful than herself.
Also, bear in mind it’s been a full year since that YouTube video was released, during which the deeply damaged Lorenz has only added to her anti-legend with a barrage of further malicious insanities. Her title is “tech reporter,” but most of what she does is look for evils on TikTok and harass its users. That’s not reporting, it’s doing what thousands of terrible people like her do a day without getting paid for it.
The woman—retweeted at least once by Erin Strout, a loud voice for transgender people in Women’s Running, at least for a while there—is a bottomless hole for any sort of attention from the gushing, saccharine praise of shitlibs and her legacy-media colleagues to the rhetorical razor-blades of her detractors. She comes from a wealthy family, and while this automatically affords her protection from the same scrutiny and consequences she would otherwise face, her father is allegedly one of the owners of the Internet Archive. Go hunting for Taylor Lorenz material in the Wayback Machine—I haven’t actually tried, but it’s reportedly a dry river. For whatever reason, and I can suggest a small truckload, she hates herself. She’s Jeff Bezos’ personal demon, and the whole thing is morbid beyond anything else I’ve seen in the circus the media has become in recent years. Those media have produced catastrophic lies, but as far as someone who should be kicked out of it and immediately straitjacketed and instead being gaily promoted, Lorenz tops everyone and everything.
As the midterm elections approach, a lot of the more earnest activists for gender-scrambled youth have been expressing concern that if Republicans gains more power in Congress, they’ll use some of it to propose some really nasty laws that go well beyond protecting kids from secret surgeries they are likely to regret and basically suggest taking trans kids away from their parents instead. Just what’s needed for background music to the ghastly tableau in Ukraine and Russia—echoes of the Stalinist Soviet Union! While it’s unlikely those bills would pass—maybe—that kind of stuff will be on the table.
So it seems fitting that the same women who were energetic about the need to protect trans kids in 2020 and 2021 have fallen largely or entirely silent on the matter this year, with their published work and social-media feeds as a guide. In 2021, Gibbs was churning out the usual dreck about how every world-class woman suggesting women’s sports should be limited to women and using the nonsense word “misgender” with haughty aplomb. The woman is an idiot and an arsonist with no actual regard for the causes she pretends to champion. But her anger is real, if illegitimately displaced onto men who don’t want to have sex with her and the women those men prefer to have sex with, and in this demented climate she can remain a high priestess of buffoonish grudge-mongering for a while yet.
But—and I’ll leave it to readers to investigate—Gibbs, Wade, Strout, and the Outside, Inc. publication have largely moved on. Funny how they seem to lose steam when public opinion is no longer universally in their favor even within the blocked-accounts-heavy social-media silos in which these self-dealing worms operate. They haven’t had anything to say about rapes being committed by male inmates in women’s prisons; maybe they’ve managed to shield themselves from those inconvenient stories, too, although frankly I think some of them would cheer. Did you know mist incarcerated women (the real ones) are people of color, and a higher-than-normal proportions of lesbians? Social justice in action!
And if you’re a pro-woman woman who supports Taylor Lorenz and her constant assault on women who have actually overcome obstacles, including sexism, to get where they are, then you might be as both crazy and hateful is she is, and thank the LORD you don’t have her platform or Bluth-like family in Connecticut.
Perhaps the noises these “feminists” made about the need to allow transgender females (males) to participate as females in sports, especially people like Lia Thomas and Caster Semenya who can win collegiate or Olympic championships, have never fundamentally been about protecting trans or intersex people. Maybe it’s that Wokism has provided excellent cover for resentful white women to derogate elite women while pretending to be feminists. I don’t think serious people have bought this, but understandably, no one likes to discuss the reasons, which feels crude even when you’re not worried about being cancelled.