Buried deep in today’s article in @NYTmag about Blaire Fleming and @SJSU women’s volleyball team, is the fact that @Nike is funding a study to understand how much they can hamper male advantage in pre-pubescent boys to allow for “meaningful competition” despite those advantages.
- why is @Nike funding research (yes we knew this already but here it is in the @nytimes) about how to disfigure and sterilize little boys sufficiently such that they retain male advantage but not so much that it would be unfair to girls?
- Girls/women are not hampered or impaired males. It’s never ok. The mere debate about how much impairing is the right amount is demeaning and degrading to women.
- @Nike — just make sneakers and focus on bringing your business back to life. This is, at best, a distraction from your fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders and divisive for your consumer base. At worst, it is criminal. It is most certainly grotesque and unethical and outside the scope of business goals to be in the business of destroying the bodies and sexual function of little boys.
