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https://theministryhasfallen.substack.com/p/nz-media-punches-down-on-women?r=1eev2p&triedRedirect=true "Prudish, close-minded misogyny
We get the picture. Two brave and dazzling athletes overcoming adversity and sticking it to their villainous enemies.
There’s a prudishness in all this fawning though. It’s all very No sex please, we’re Kiwis. Biology, the journalists seem to say, so central to sport, is a bit crass and rude. We’d rather not talk about it.
The writers featured on the media platforms I looked at were quick to gush about Khelif and Lin, tripped over themselves to play the misinformation gambit, but were glacier-slow to give a good faith hearing to the arguments at hand. Most of the stories followed a single narrative so closely they could have been written by the same person.
This kind of one-sided reporting is boring and it doesn’t serve New Zealanders well. And there’s more than a whiff of now predictable misogyny involved. Over recent years we’ve seen a new lease of life to this old tradition. Women’s rights are problematic. Those who take a scientific view of sex, one steeped in material reality and common sense, those who are keen to retain sex-based spaces, sports and language, and those who want to talk about their rights are painted as enemies of a civilised society.
The tragedy is that, yet again, this women bashing is disguised as something else.
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