Well, I Shouldn’t Disappoint Pete

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 27 Comments

Da Tech Guy is disappointed that I didn’t take up his earlier challenge to address the fakeness of the 1973 Billy Jean King/Bobby Riggs “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, but as I said, I recognized it as hype at the time. Although I didn’t know the fix was in — because Bobby Riggs owed $100,000 to the mob — I was 13 at the time and sophisticated enough to see it for the silly hype-fest it was. Even if King’s victory had been legitimate, what was proven by having a female athlete in her prime beat a 55-year-old man at a non-contact sport?

Pretty sure my remark at the time was, “Let her try football.”

Did I ever mention I was a small-town sports editor for years?

Covered some truly excellent female athletes, including state champion sprinter Shea Thurman and basketball standout Tammy Starr, but it would have been absurd to have expected either of them to compete against championship male athletes. Thurman could outrun all but the fastest boys in Gordon County, but her time in the 100-meter dash was still two seconds off the top boys’ times. Yet Sonny Bunch was shocked to realize he’d been bamboozled by the Riggs-King scam:

I hadn’t realized that Riggs trounced — just absolutely crushed, in straight sets, giving up only three games over two sets — Margaret Court, then the most dominant women’s player in the world, just a few months before playing King.

Ding. Ding. Ding.

It’s another example of The Story Too Good to Be True, a stock item in the dishonest repertoire of liberal journalism.

The Cult of Equality has always been a lie, a March to Nowhere, and my opposition to it is not an expression of “misogyny” or any of the other political pejoratives that radical egalitarians use to silence their critics. It is simply a common-sense recognition of reality.

“Believe me, Sir, those who attempt to level, never equalise. In all societies, consisting of various descriptions of citizens, some description must be uppermost. The levellers therefore only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the edifice of society, by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.”
— Edmund Burke, 1790

More than two centuries have passed since Burke described the falsehood inherent in the Cult of Equality, but radicals have never ceased to “pervert the natural order of things,” spreading misery and calling it Progress, and the madness continues to this very day.

So my apologies to Pete for neglecting his challenge, but the thing is, if these fools won’t heed the wisdom of Edmund Burke, why should I expect them to listen to me?

We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.

They know the truth. They just hate the truth.

Category: Feminism, Sports

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27 Responses to “Well, I Shouldn’t Disappoint Pete”

MrEvilMatt
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm

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rsmccain
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm

“We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.” http://t.co/lSrVrdRHGn | @DaTechGuyblog @instapundit @BobBelvedere
BobBelvedere
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:56 pm

RT @rsmccain: “We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.” http://t.co/lSrVrdRHGn | @DaTechGuyblog @instapundit @BobBelvedere
CyberRabid
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:58 pm

So we can’t call the ‘lil cupcakes’ dumb bunnies when they screw up? Awwwww, life just isn’t worth living anymore.
Bob Belvedere
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:59 pm

We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.

They know the truth. They just hate the truth.

Ain’t it the Truth.
DaTechGuy on DaRadio
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm

It wasn’t a challenge, it was a guilty pleasure of anticipation
BobBelvedere
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Well, I Shouldn’t Disappoint Pete http://t.co/F8GiM0V9V2 #TCOT
DaTechGuyblog
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:04 pm

RT @rsmccain: “We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.” http://t.co/lSrVrdRHGn | @DaTechGuyblog @instapundit @BobBelvedere
RS
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:06 pm

Remember the match. I hadn’t thought about it for years. Now I’ve thought about it. I can only hope that will never happen again during my time on this planet.
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thatMrGguy
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm

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Mike G.
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:30 pm

Well, at least Pete got his wish. Every time I think of feminists, it brings to mind my short lived relationship with a feminist hedonist. I knew it wasn’t going to last the first time I opened a door for her and she said…” I can open my own damn doors, thank you very much”.
Ryan
August 28th, 2013 @ 9:56 pm

The truth to liberals is the same as crucifixes and sunlight are to vampires.
postaldog
August 28th, 2013 @ 10:12 pm

The local papers down here are saying the story doesn’t add up. One of the mobsters in question wasn’t even down here at the time, and the Palma Ceia country club wasn’t where they met to do business, etc. I have no doubt Riggs threw the match, but I doubt it was over a big gambling debt.
DocWashburn
August 28th, 2013 @ 10:16 pm

RT @rsmccain: “We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.” http://t.co/lSrVrdRHGn | @DaTechGuyblog @instapundit @BobBelvedere
Steve Skubinna
August 28th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm

I had a high school English teacher who said “You achieve equality by giving out stepladders, not hatchets.”

At the time of the Riggs/King matches it didn’t make sense to me, a mere high school student. Even then I knew men, in general, had much greater physical strength than women. It did not mean that the strongest woman in the world could not be stronger than the strongest man. It only meant, statistically speaking, that of a hundred randomly selected men, the average physical strength would be greater than that of a randomly selected hundred women.

But to generalize from that to argue that, say, a regimental combat team comprised of men against a more or less equivalent RCT of all women or even mixed sexes, the all male outfit would have a significant advantage would be sexist. And hate speech. And, hell, I dunno slut shaming and proof of a rape culture.

Definitely heteropatriarchal crap. Wah wah waaaaah.
MrSaturn
August 29th, 2013 @ 2:22 am

That reminds me of my high school cross country days. There was this 7th grade girl runner. Absolutely phenomenal. Could run a 4k and not even look like she tried hard after it. Quickly became one of the top runners in North Dakota regardless of class. But whenever they had Boys JV run with Girls Varsity to save time, she’d do well for herself but would routinely be beaten by a good portion of the boys.

I feel sorry for boys in JH/HS caught in the crossfire of girls who want to play football. Despite physically outmatching the girl by incident of gender, how can they play properly when they’ve been taught their whole lives (hopefully) how to properly treat girls? I accidentally broke the collar bone of a girl in 7th grade playing basketball in gym class and we weighed roughly the same at the time but I came out of it fine despite being small at the time, I couldn’t imagine the first real hit on a girl football player by a larger boy.
tlk244182
August 29th, 2013 @ 9:02 am

I enlisted in the peacetime navy, so I have no combat experience, (and I believe I see your point, and agree) nevertheless, I would be wary of underestimating a cadre of well-trained, highly motivated women with a chip on their collective shoulder. My reasons for opposing the liberal push for androgyny are cultural and religious, not practical.
rmnixondeceased
August 29th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm

And if command actually houses them together and their menstrual cycles synch, send them in during the PMS phase …
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Steve Skubinna
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm

I was in at the time stretcher bearer parties were increased from two to four per stretcher. That was because women, in general, did not have the upper body strength for the job.

Of course there are plenty of places aboard ship (like nearly every area inside the skin) where four stretcher bearers are too many and so therefore every stretcher party was in reality two men.

Also I was a surface rescue swimmer. At the time I went to the school the program was open to women, but to date none had finished. It put a premium on upper body strength. Some few women had passed the in-test and been accepted, but at the point none had finished. There are now, AFAIK, female rescue swimmers, but not very many. Considering that my own class had a 40% graduation rate, which we were told was unusually high, consider that most men couldn’t make it through the course.

Incidentally I’m with you on opposing women in combat on cultural grounds. Yeah, I’m a heteropatriarchal bastard (okay, guess my new favorite go-to word), but women should be life givers and nurterers, not fighters and killers. By pretending there’s no difference between them we do everybody a disservice and sow the seeds of eventual catastrophe.
Steve Skubinna
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm

The solution is to abandon all contact sports. Or those that require physical endurance or strength.

Or for that matter, all that require that icky competition.
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