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Taken aback by the latest edition of academic journal Sports Medicine, Bettina Arndt sought an interview with a male co-authour of the paper Gender-Based Violence is a Blind Spot for Sports and Exercise Medicine Professionals, in which “a bunch of mainly female exercise physiology students from UNSW cooked up the dubious argument that ‘gender-based violence is a blind spot for sports and exercise medical professionals’.”
Let Bettina explain how discretion in the modern academy might be seen as a career-preserving virtue:
….There was a male lead author amongst the predominantly female UNSW academics, and I thought I’d have a chat to him about what had happened. The good professor agreed to have a chat – and a fascinating conversation ensued. Unfortunately, he’s now decided that our chat was off the record. How’s that for retrospective revoked consent?
Storm in a teacup, you might conclude. Perhaps. But it is a telling example of how the feminist take-over of our universities is playing out. We now have increasing numbers of radical young female academics and students, probably indoctrinated back in their school days, all keen on displaying their feminist credentials in their so-called scholarship. Increasingly they are forcing this sludge into diverse disciplines, right across all academia.
Bettina’s full article can be read at her Substack blog, while her interview with researcher James Nunzio, who alerted her to the paper, can be watched below.
Bettina is a national treasure, and subscribers to her blog receive her devastating essays in defence of males that rebut the hysterical rantings of the radical feminists.
Highly recommended.
Yes – but will she ever be appointed Chair of the ABC.
Sadly – no.
‘Gender’ is a grammatical term. Think of ships being female. It has been misapplied over recent years to social constructs.
I am not of the male gender – I am of the male sex.
Anyone offended by that sentence has a problem.
Dr Peter Arnold OAM, Professional Editor, Sydney
Good point. Is the word sex also misapplied? E.G I would like to have sex. Does that make as much sense as I would like to have Gender?
You can have or be any gender you like these days. Even “ship”.
“Sex” became a metonymy or synecdoche for “sexual intercourse”. But when we studied French at school we all knew that gender was a grammatical tool to govern verb endings and adverbs etc by dividing nouns into male and female genders : la table, le livre. “Gender” has now changed meaning to refer to biological sex to mislead people into believing that biological sex is as arbitrary and malleable as the grammar of a language.
Don’t forget, there is a third gender, Neuter. .Perhaps that’s what should really be used?