Keeping the peace
The Daily Mail three days ago:
A transgender runner who outraged many by entering last year’s London Marathon as a woman has revealed she won’t list herself in the female category when she runs the race again on Sunday.
Glenique Frank, 55, sparked controversy last year after she competed in the female category of the colossal race in the English capital last April, with Olympian Mara Yamauchi claiming it was ‘wrong and unfair’.
“Glenique.”
[T]he charity runner from Daventry is again preparing to take on the gruelling 26.2-mile race on April 21, albeit in a different category than last year.
She is expected to compete as a non-binary athlete instead, a category that was introduced by marathon organisers last year, making this the second race in which it has been offered as an option for runners.
Although Frank does not believe she is non-binary and would have preferred to have entered into the women’s category again, she is keen to ‘keep the peace’ and not ’cause trouble’.
Frank is right that he’s not “non-binary” – because no one is and it doesn’t mean anything. On the other hand he has zero right to “enter the women’s category again” and he’s a bad person for thinking he should be able to and for bragging about “keeping the peace” and “not causing trouble.”
Mara Yamauchi asks a question:
Man wants reward and recognition for not cheating. Well, I’m not cheating and I’m not getting any reward or recognition, and what’s more, I don’t deserve any. Do we hand out medals for not tripping other competitors, or not spitting on them, or not screaming at them? No, because not doing any of those things is just plain decency. Every day, billions of people manage to refrain from killing someone, or burning down some random building. And you’re not a woman; you should never have been allowed to run as one. The decent thing to do would have been to not force your way into the women’s category in the first place, but the second best thing to do is to stop doing so now. But don’t expect any thanks.
The non binary category is itself a cheat, as it’s simply an additional category for second tier males to dominate.
David Mamet in a livestream last Sunday, at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, discussing his memoir, Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood (2023):
He meant a bathroom with 1 toilet that did not need elaboration, versus the London Marathon with 2 sexes in this thread. But he pointed out a pattern of politicization, in his colorful way.
Heh, that is very good.