Shifting the Goal Posts

While listening on the radio, I happened across a conversation on golf. My personal opinions of the sport aside, the topic in question was about mixed competition. While the male presenter was all for the idea, a female feminist was against.

Hold the phone was my first instinct. Was this not what feminism was founded on? Wasn’t it a fundamental that a woman was in no way different to a man other than her genitalia?

I listened, dumbfounded, as the goal post had clearly shifted. Her argument was based on scientific evidence of how physiologically different the female was to a male, as if this was not evident by someone with functional eye site. My mind drifted to thoughts if breasts may inhibit a swing the same way it might a well endowed, excited, male. Or if thinking from above the groin would “effect” one’s centre of gravity.

These issues aside, her argument was that men and women could not compete on the same playing field because of these physiological differences. Yet her argument then turned when it came to prize monies. By my deduction, she was wanting the same prize for both genders when it could not be determined who “was the golfer” because they were not allowed to compete against each other. Platitudes like, “having your cake and eating it too came to mind”.

My solution is simple: combine the prize monies for having two competitions and let the golfers play against each other to determine who is the better golfer. This negates gender and focuses on the golfer.

What is my argument on this? Well if relate the attitude of this feminist to her cause, she has logically, in effect, negated her own argument. It is a bit like, Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. The ideal and cause was simple, “All animals are equal”, to have amendments made to the initial mantra, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”. This Ideal substituted into the golfing argument is no different. That, male and female, golfers should be equal in value, regardless if they are equal on ability.

The argument on equality can also be summed up on this point too. Then you have to wonder if the battle for equality is not really a covert battle for supremacy. What a sad world where a race is divided into not just creed, and culture but sex as well. This would be the death of humanity if male and female were to be at permanent war with each other.