Oh, sheesh . . .

Now the Most Equal Comrade gives an interview to The New Republic in which he says that he has mixed feelings about watching football, and that the NCAA will probably eventually have to take steps to "reduce the violence."

This is just a suggestion, of course, like the reminder to doctors that there is nothing in Freedom-Hater-care that prohibits them from discussing gun storage with patients.

To revisit the subject of my Gender Post below, men are aggressive creatures.  Without ritualized yet compelling situations in which to channel it, they will terrorize the world with their brutishness.  As George Gilder asserted in the seminal classic Men and Marriage, the most dangerous type of human being on Earth is the unmarried young adult male.

Men are also more analytical and quantitative by nature than women.  Men like to measure things, inquire into what they're made of, see if they can fit the raw materials of this world together so as to build things with ever-greater utility.  So it is that the diamonds, tracks, courts and fields of the world's most popular athletic games came into being.  In each case, a man considered how to ritualize the competitive - dare I say warring? - instinct in his gender, and considered a given chunk of space and how to section it off in various zones that would be defended by one team or the other in a contest of strength, focus, hierarchically based teamwork and - this is the most germane point - establish rules to ensure fairness and determine how to proceed when there is a disputed occurrence.

In football, there is an entire infrastructure of team doctors, physical therapists, fitness trainers, nutritionists and sports-science experts at the ready for every play.  Nothing in this world is more scrutinized in real time than the action on a football field.

Lately I've been on something of a "consider-the-sum-total-of-various-events-of-the-last-few-days" kick, and that's because the thread of continuity connecting them becomes ever more obvious and ominous.

Think again about the transgendered 11-year-old, the edict opening combat positions to women soldiers, the push to get rid of guns, and . . . the decision of the MEC to weigh in on the sport of football.  In a passive-agressive way, the FHers are acting the alpha male, attempting to eradicate any kind of resolute masculine energy that could pose a threat to their great leveling project.