Evan Urquhart

If you're going to read a different meaning into my words when I went on to very clearly explain what I meant by "struggling with that" I can't stop you, but I can say you're being disingenuous to the extreme.

You were assigned the idea (or the headline, was it, did that come first?) by an editor, and were days late in writing it, because, as you said, you struggled to write it. What I said was accurate.

I'm not surprised that the word disingenuous is on your mind, because that's the perfect description for the article. You know in your heart how daft that comparison is, but your editor wanted it out there for tactical reasons.

To stigmatize female athletes who might be minded to stand up for their right to single-sex sports. You have a living to make, I understand, but when you disavow this article, in a year or three, I bet you'll blame the editor.

Seriously, mate, just read the rest of the thread?

I don't know what to tell you lol

Not to be rude about your work, but if you had, in the end, after all that struggling, found a genuine way to justify the comparison, wouldn't you have put it in the article?

That does seem a bit rude, thank you for acknowledging it. I think it's laid out quite clearly, and that I very specifically say it's an analogy that is useful but not perfect and shouldn't be mistaken for saying they're one and the same.