Lia should live her life as authentically as possible, (but) we must protect women’s sports. Watching Lia completely dominate the competition was heartbreaking. When did protecting women become such a controversial stance?
Caitlyn Jenner
A funny thing happened on the way to the for-sure confirmation of President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee: she refused to define “woman” and created another Democrat vote-losing issue six months before the mid-terms. Read the bizarre exchange between Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) below:
Blackburn: Do you agree with Justice Ginsberg that there are physical differences between men and women that are enduring?
Jackson: I am not familiar with that particular quote, so it’s hard for me to comment.
Blackburn: Do you interpret Justice Ginsberg’s meaning of men and women as male and female?
Jackson: Because I do not know the case, I do not know how I interpret it.
Blackburn: Can you provide a definition for the word “woman”?
Jackson: Can I provide a definition?
Blackburn: Yes.
Jackson: I cannot.
Blackburn: You cannot?
Jackson: Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.
By responding with a lame excuse (“not a biologist”), Jackson exemplified the “woke BS” James Carville told Democrats to avoid. It will cost Democrats voters, because everyone knows the justice knows what a “woman” is and should have just answered the dad-gummed question. But no, Jackson followed Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s example of dodging questions and turning common words into abstractions. She got confirmed and left a video clip that won’t play well in battleground states.
There is no reason at all to believe defining “woman” will stop the arc of the moral universe from bending toward justice. Every non-binary US citizen is related to biological men and women, and the 2020 census had 167 million citizens self-identify as ”female.” Is blood no longer thicker than water? Are biological women now as entitled as men, and no longer in need of Title IX protections? Of course not, proving just how crazy far-left politics has become.
Jackson looked like an “elite liberal” to everyday folks, who get their dream jobs in open-and-honest interviews. Blackburn’s questions resulted from the President and nominee evoking status (race and sex) rather than stature (courage and honesty). Biden did say, “I’ve made no decision except one – the person I nominate will be the first black woman ever.” Jackson did say, “meaningful numbers of women and people of color, I think matters.” Blackburn knows pure politics when she sees it.
Republicans know Biden promised to nominate the “first black woman” to the high court in return for Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) turning out the black vote in his state’s primary. They know nominating an Asian-American woman would have also advanced identity fairness, and that many years have passed since the first Black (Marshall) and first woman (O’Connor) joined the high court. Thus, Blackburn was right to push Jackson to explain WHY it “matters” to have “meaningful numbers” of specific identities on the Court – and Jackson whiffed.
Millions of boomer dads know merit-based coeducation AND girls-only sports turned daughters into high achieving adults. Millions of boomer feminists still believe “protecting women” is central to social justice. Many millions think tolerance (“it’s your thing, do what you wanna do”) and equal protections (14th amendment) are all we can reasonably offer in America.
If you took a class in evolutionary biology, or just “follow” the science, you know better than to ignore 2 billion years of evolution. Being tolerant of outliers is kind, but rejecting defined roles for sexual reproduction and raising families is kind of reckless.
Mark it down. Every swing-district Democrat that refuses to define “woman” in next fall’s debates will get clobbered.
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