Woah no. Cannot agree with Ellis Cashmore at all. Problem is that people aren’t competing against each other’s gender identities, they’re essentially competing against each other’s bodies. Male and female bodies are very different & that’s why they compete separately #Martina
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If you concede that ineluctable biological factors might explain the differences between male and female athletic performance then it opens up the possibility that they might be in play in other kinds of inequality.
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That's dangerous territory, partly because there are echoes of scientific racism, etc., but also because it subverts the sociological modus operandi. It suggests sociologists might be looking in the wrong place for explanations, etc.
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Maybe this is a daft question but how does correction of social conditions work if you don’t also recognise material factors? The immutable conditions? The parameters you must work within? If you get what I mean, this isn’t my comfort zone.

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Not a daft question at all. It won't work, obviously, but sociologists will likely always be able to point to additional mutable factors to explain why things aren't getting better. The moment of truth, so to speak, will be indefinitely postponed.
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Any thoughts on where his position might come from? From an academic perspective? Or is he just a blether?