Standing ovation for a male athlete making a stand over cheating.
But women should STFU over 3 biological males taking gold, silver and bronze in the 800m women's event in the Rio Olympics.
When I saw that Mack Horton protest, my first thought was, 'This is what male athletes do when they feel they are being cheated out of a rightful victory.' And to wish fervently that a female athlete somewhere would do the same. Of course the 'progressive' media would jump all over her, and she'd probably lose sponsorships and be sanctioned by sporting authorities.
It's always worth reposting this excellent 4th Wave Now article about how women's Olympic competition was almost destroyed by the Soviet-era doping program, and how US swimmer Shirley Babashoff was treated by the media when she protested the cheating.
4thwavenow.com/2018/04/15/surly-shirley-and-the-assault-on-womens-sport-then-and-now/
From the article:
In many ways the failure of women athletes to object to transgendered men in their sports is not surprising. There is a strong taboo in athletics against appearing to refuse to take personal responsibility for one’s sporting losses. No matter the circumstances, athletes are expected to take all of the blame when their performance does not measure up to standards. Even in circumstances that are objectively unfair and unequal, a female athlete – faced with the pressure to be socially correct, the requirement that females be “nice” at all times, and worries about being judged as a griper and a sore loser – will hold her fire and not point out the obvious.
That said, I do think there would be huge public support if a female athlete protested losing to a male a la Mack Horton. Most people can see the extreme unfairness of the situation.
From the 'Surly Shirley' article:
Women athletes are in an impossible bind: speak out and suffer Shirley’s fate, or continue to lose in lopsided and unfair competitions. Nothing will change until the athletes themselves, and not their surrogates, begin to protest, speak out, and refuse to participate in patently unfair competition. Until then, women’s sports will continue to be vulnerable to domination by transgender males.