I've never bought into the Left's screeching about the patriarchy, mostly because I love men, I don't want my boys growing up in a world where they're hated for their gender, and because the concept of "toxic masculinity" is just how the Left copes with the fact that it's populated by beta male feminists. Strong men built the West, as protectors and providers for their families, they help prevent the anti-family, communist Left from completely taking over America.
That being said, there are some men who deserve criticism, and there is a form of patriarchy on the Left that they fully embrace. It's on full display here, as a trio of men decides how women must compromise in order to accommodate their mentally ill brethren.
Malcolm Gladwell says if males agree to stop invading women’s sports, in response females must accommodate all the other demands of the trans movement.
— XX-XY Athletics (@xx_xyathletics) March 11, 2026
Once again, a man telling women they must consent to other men’s demands for their private spaces AND VERY IDENTITY.
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Here's what Gladwell said, and I've added the emphasis.
"There's two competing values and you have to pick which one in this moment you think is more important, and if you're going to pick one, you have to accommodate the interests of the other side," Gladwell said. "in other words, if you're someone who thinks trans women should not participate in the female category, you have to go out of your way to be an advocate for all other aspects of the trans agenda. That's your obligation. You have to be able to say ... I know that this is something that means a lot to you, I am not going to back you on this, but I promise I'll back you on everything else."
"And the flip side is also true," Gladwell continued. "I think that if you're someone who wants that kind of participation, you have to go out of your way to acknowledge the importance that you're basically saying to people who care a lot about sports, and women's sports in particular, that I'm asking you to give up something here and I will bend over backwards to make that sacrifice easier for you. There has to be that accommodation."
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Is Gladwell serious right now?
I do not have any obligation to compromise with the mentally ill men who wish to invade my safe spaces. Nor does any other woman. I am not an athlete, so while I am not harmed by "trans women" in female sports, I am able to recognize the inherent unfairness that happens when men are allowed to steal spots on teams, championships, medals, and records from women. That's mostly because I'm not a self-absorbed, self-centered Leftist.
But I am a woman. I do go to my gym, where I want my locker room to be single sex. I do not consent to changing my clothes or showering in front of strange men, many of whom "identify" as women while still having intact male genitalia. As we saw not too long ago, men use "trans friendly" policies like those at Planet Fitness to abuse women for their own sexual gratification. In Virginia, Richard Cox — a registered sex offender — was repeatedly busted exposing and pleasuring himself in women's locker rooms around Fairfax and Arlington Counties. He had the schedules of children's swim lessons on his phone and was recently found guilty of possessing child pornography. Cox was allowed to get away with this depraved behavior because he said the magic words: "I'm trans!"
Gladwell thinks this is an acceptable trade-off, however, and that women have an obligation to make guys like Cox feel welcome and "back him on everything else."
Women's sports are just one facet of life to which those men do not belong. There are countless other, far more intimate, places where they should not be. I do not want those men in my public bathrooms, either. Nor do I want them housed in women's prisons, admitted to women's hospital wards, or able to go to women's shelters, breastfeeding groups, or pregnancy loss support groups. I don't want women who own salons to be forced to wax male genitalia, as Jonathan ("Jessica") Yaniv in Canada has been doing for years. He filed multiple human rights complaints, usually against minority women who refused to provide those services.
What Gladwell and those other men are saying — with nary a woman on the panel — is that I have to risk my security and safety as a trade-off for women's sports, a so-called "compromise" that disenfranchises far more women than those in women's sports. That's not fair by any stretch of the imagination.
Women's rights are not a finite pie to be divided in a way that men like Gladwell feel is fairest. They are all-encompassing. Of course, I blame feminists for this, too. They not only enabled the trans movement, but they laid the groundwork for this decades ago by demanding women have access to all-male spaces. Men, too, deserve to have single-sex spaces, too.
If anything, letting "trans women" compete in women's sports would be the "compromise" that does the least harm. But those female athletes shouldn't have to give up fair competitions for the rest of us, either. Far too many have lost medals, records, and championships to men already. It must stop.
Women's rights are not up for debate. They are not grounds for compromise. We do not have to tolerate abuse in several parts of our lives for the vague promise that we won't be abused in one area of our lives. And we do not have to accommodate mentally ill men, many of them who are simply living out misogynistic autogynephilic fantasies, so that guys like Gladwell can feel better about themselves.
