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Eminentoes
Intergender Cagefighting Champion of the Brave New World
Fallon Fox should really be a woman in combat.
When cage fighter Fallon Fox knocked out Ericka Newsome with a well-placed knee to the mug last week, the Marquis of Queensberry couldn’t have approved. The Scotsman regarded knee strikes as ungentlemanly; fighting, unladylike. Alas, the marquis can rest easy. Ms. Fox isn’t really a lady but a post-op transsexual nicknamed “the Queen of Swords.”
The words “courageous” and “brave” generally don’t come to mind to describe men who beat up women. The adjectives appear in Bleacher Report and Sports Illustrated, respectively, to characterize Fox’s fight to fight women.
“In a perfect world, Fallon would not have been obligated to reveal her transsexuality beyond the state athletic commissions who license her,” Sports Illustrated’s Loretta Hunt opines. “What happens to Fallon next will set the groundwork for others to follow, a small consolation as she wades through the misconceptions and misnomers and rises to tackle the discriminatory reactions she’ll get in the coming weeks.”
Might those “discriminatory reactions” come from women who don’t wish to take on a man? Two women, both knocked senseless by Fox, entered the cage not knowing the true sex of their opponent. They probably thought a lot about “misnomers” and “misconceptions” after taking their beatings from a dude who looked like a lady. Does their right to know not supersede Fox’s right to remain hidden?
Barroom MMA fans, as likely to implore female combatants to “make love, not war” as they are to shout “kill ’em” at male fighters, perhaps fall under Ms. Hunt’s cast of troglodytes itching to persecute Fallon Fox. Winning them over may prove harder than winning against the chromosome-Y deprived competition.
Mixed martial artists go to extreme lengths—jogging in rubber suits, popping diuretics, sleeping in the sauna—to cut weight. But amputation has not been heretofore included in the arsenal of tricks to delude the scales. While the fledgling sport struggles to curtail elevated testosterone levels among competitors, it has only now encountered the performance inhibiting drug estrogen.
Fox, according to Hunt, is a “trailblazer.” Andy Kaufman begs to differ.
Intergender fistfights have a long if not proud tradition. Surely any woman who made the mistake of burning Jake LaMotta’s steak, at least in the movies, understands this. According to Keith Richards’ autobiography, Brian Jones by no means boasted an undefeated record in his unsanctioned matches against Anita Pallenberg and other members of the fairer sex. Chris Brown hit number one on Billboard’s album charts twice after he hit Rihanna. Even Obama’s half-brother runs for governor of his section of Kenya amid allegations that he beat two of his twelve wives.
Reputations can survive such ignominious behavior. Civilization, once such ignominious behavior becomes accepted, can’t. The strong protecting rather than preying upon the weak separates civilization from barbarism.
Intergender prizefights, like the current drive in Massachusetts to integrate women’s restrooms with men who have surgically removed their genitals, should evoke a conflict between feminists and sexual anarchists. But both groups remain too blinded by ideology to realize it.
Acknowledging the humanity we share with those suffering from gender dysphoria doesn’t require us to share their delusion. That makes society as crazy as them. Fallon Fox is as much a woman as the bag lady you pass by is the Queen of England. Their crazy becomes contagious once we decide that politeness obligates us to indulge it.
The Marquis of Queensberry, despite his fondness for bloody brawls, was no Marquis de Sade. In fact, when John Douglas referred to Oscar Wilde as a “posing sodomite,” a defamation suit ensued that backfired on the novelist and led to his demise. Douglas nevertheless gained a reputation as a freethinker in his day. Undoubtedly, he wouldn’t be able to speak his thoughts very freely in ours. Common sense, such as the notion that it’s wrong for men to punch women, now goes by the name “bigotry.” The word shuts up the opposition as much as Fallon Fox’s knee does.
Tolerance, nay, acceptance of antisocial behavior now passes for progress, enlightenment, civilization. It’s later than you think. We are so civilized that we have become barbarous.
About the Author
Daniel J. Flynn is the author of Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. He blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.
Stephie| 3.8.13 @ 7:21AM
Not a brave new world but a sick one.
How wretchedly Romanesque.
John Navratil| 3.8.13 @ 9:17AM
Political Correctness perfectly completed.
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 2:49PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:12PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately viaing for attention.
Stan Redmond| 3.10.13 @ 1:46PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one tired of the spam
Kwan| 3.8.13 @ 10:15AM
These transgender operations seem to be something from out of a Frankenstein or Island of Dr. Moreau movie. What sort of freakazoid surgical transformation will these surgeons come up with next? Perhaps cutting some midget who has dreams of being a NBA superstar in half and reconstructing him into a 7 foot giant.
Drunken Sailor| 3.8.13 @ 11:39AM
Kwan,
You're a little late.
http://www.leg-lengthening.com/
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.9.13 @ 11:44AM
"If you are are suffered from being short or wishing to become taller, you are in the right place and please read on."(sic)
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 2:50PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:13PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately vieing for attention.
Vance P. Frickey| 4.5.13 @ 6:03PM
South Park covered that in an episode where Mr(s). Garrison's surplus male organ and testes were used to make synthetic knee tendons so that Kyle, the little Jewish kid, could play basketball like the "bros" - life imitates art, once again.
cicero| 3.8.13 @ 11:02AM
"The strong protecting rather preying on the weak separates civilation from barbarism." Doesn't this currently describe our central cities dominated by the culture of poverty, and heavily subsidised and patronized by our governmental elite?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.8.13 @ 11:30AM
If you’ve seen the movie “The Crying Game”, sing along:
I know all there is to know about the lying game
I've had my share of the lying game
First there are punches, then there are kicks
What once was a guy punched you in the eye
and is takin’ her licks
and then soon you see a big hairy moon there in the lying game
And if he/she knows maybe they'll explain
Why there are hormones, why aren’t there tears
Which one can’t enjoin with a knee to the groin
When the sack disappears
I know all there is to know about the lying game
I've had my share of the lying game
Once an X chromosome, along with a Y
Now to help out the cause to your genitals
You're sayin' goodbye
Don't want no more of the lying game
Don't want no more of the lying game
Don't want no more of the lying game
Don't want no more of the lying game
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 2:50PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:14PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately vieing for attention.
Vance P. Frickey| 4.5.13 @ 6:05PM
8, 9, 9, and from the Danish judge.. 10!
Ronsch| 3.8.13 @ 12:54PM
Perfect! Just like a cross between the movies "Universal Soldier" (starring Jean Claude van Damme and Dolph Lundgren) and "Soldier" (starring Kurt Russell)...we can breed perfect soldiers, and the squeamish or crying can be "eliminated" during training...
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 2:50PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:16PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately seeking attention.
Joe D.| 3.8.13 @ 12:56PM
Mr. Flynn, this is what we get from the PC/liberal crowd. I ok and you are ok. This person is sick and needs help. He is a man and should not be beating up woman but trying to work our his problem. But forget that. This is the new sick sexual world we live in.
Butch| 3.8.13 @ 5:00PM
I hope the dude runs into the wrong chick, and there are some out there. I know a girl who beat a guy up bad, then knocked him out so cold he had to spend two nights in the hospital. She was a real babe, too, and a real girly-girl.
Occam's Tool| 3.8.13 @ 1:43PM
Fox still has the larger bone structure and superior aggressive structure of a male (better load carrying abilities with the hip/pelvis structure, for example). There is only so much that emasculation/estrogen can do to change that. Jusr as Renee Richards should not have been able to compete in tennis as a female, so this person should not be able to fight women in combat sports.
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 2:50PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:16PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately seeking attention.
gene| 3.8.13 @ 3:06PM
What a NON-issue going on here. Want to resolve it? Get a hard driving, athletic, tough as nails experienced FEMALE martial artist to go into a cage and beat this guy's face into the canvas. He will never recover from the humiliation. This problem will go away. And there will be another great entry on the Youtube! 0:-D
TLP| 3.8.13 @ 3:27PM
Contest at yesterday's Homecoming Dance.
markenoff| 3.8.13 @ 10:17PM
Go to TLP's contest. He's desperately seeking attention.
JP| 3.8.13 @ 4:10PM
"Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man"
Nate W.| 3.10.13 @ 5:08AM
The average Progressive sees this type of political correctness and says: *sigh* "I know it's unsavory, but it's necessary for Our Leader's new world order."
Stan Redmond| 3.10.13 @ 1:49PM
No matter how many times you slice and dice a hormone fed pig and make delicious food products from the pig, It's still a pig. This is a man regardless of what it believes. I watched in disgust as the "first man ever gives birth" and saw the scarred and mutilated body of a woman. If you're a woman and want to 'live' with the appearance of a man, fine, just remember you're still a man.
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Vance P. Frickey| 4.5.13 @ 6:09PM
The obvious answer is a third league so that guys who had their 'nads and peckers cut off could square off in the arena against each other. Small league, I admit, but at least the competitors and spectators would know what they're watching.