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DON’T BLAME MEN. IT’S NOT OUR FAULT THAT MEN MAKE BETTER WOMEN THAN WOMEN DO:  Women’s opportunities are being taken away by ‘womxn.’

Glenn Reynolds

UPDATE: I think this is unduly harsh, but I understand her sentiments and agree to the extent that I would have done what she’s advocating. Meghan Fox: Women, not Lia Thomass, are Destroying Women’s Sports

Every woman forced to compete against Thomas should have stayed on the block at every meet. But now the season is over, the NCAA championships are over, and Thomas will graduate having competed for an entire season without protest. The precedent is set. The time for talking was over after Thomas beat the women in the very first meet he was allowed to compete in. The NCAA and the colleges would not listen to reason. So instead of watching their sport die a slow death, the female competitors should have shut it down. Who cares about facing sanctions or ridicule? This was their moment to save not only their sport for female competitors only, but all of women’s sports, and they failed.

If the athletes themselves didn’t care enough to put themselves on the line to stop this farce, why should we care? If fear of being called a “transphobe” made the girls jump in the water and undress in front of a dude with a penis then I’m glad they lost. They don’t deserve the title “winner” with such a lack of courage.

The women on Penn’s swim team are unfortunately the ones responsible for not doing the right thing. They didn’t ask to be the ones in the spotlight, but history doesn’t call the prepared or the fittest all the time to rise to the occasion. Most of the time, it’s the unprepared and the least equipped who find themselves at a crossroads where one way leads to easy acceptance and the other to dangerous glory.

Imagine what would have happened in the living rooms of America if Lia Thomas dove into the water and no one else followed. Imagine the TIME magazine cover of women standing in unison out of the water in protest against the male takeover of their sport. Now, that would have been worth seeing. It would never have been forgotten, much like when Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in protest of racial inequality at the 1968 Olympics. History was waiting to be made here. and those in the position to make it chose not to. Instead, TIME looked like this.

Yes, I know that the female swimmers were threatened with expulsion if they protested Thomas’s involvement in their sport, but where is the fighting spirit that would say: “Go ahead. Make my day,” and then call some high-powered attorneys more than happy to take some university money? It’s a battle that must be fought, but it requires real courage to get it started. This battle hasn’t even begun. Right now, the enemy is sacking the city and the city-dwellers are standing there dumbstruck, unable to move. Another swim meet must not happen where women willingly swim against a man. 

When injustice is happening, it is not brave to go on suffering in silence. It’s not praiseworthy to speak anonymously to reporters, terrified that your identity will be leaked. It’s not courageous to have Mommy and Daddy write a letter on your behalf and let them take the heat. If you want to save your sport, then quit screwing around and organize a real protest. Be women protecting women.

When this happens again with another male swimmer encroaching on the women’s team, the answer is to resist as one united front. Let’s hope the next group of female swimmers come equipped for the battle.