Joe Rogan makes an obvious point here. Super obvious. Blindingly obviously. But in a world gone mad, the obvious needs to be restated again and again: “TransWomen” are men, and merely good male athletes regularly beat the very best women athletes in fair competitions. And when it comes to martial arts, male athletes of the same weight simply beat the snot out of female athletes.
There are two biological sexes, male and female, genetically determined before birth. Either you have XX chromosomes and are a women, or XY chromosomes and are a man, or you’re and end-of the bell curve genetic anomaly. Everything else is sophistry.
Chinese MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong (known as “Mad Dog”) is winning martial matches across his country. Result? The Communist Chinese government hates him because he’s beating traditional Chinese martial arts masters:
MMA was so named in 1993. It is a veritable postmodern pastiche of combat styles—including Brazilian jiu jitsu, Israeli krav maga, Thai kickboxing, and more. This no-holds-barred whatever works form of fighting is immensely popular worldwide. In China, however, where traditional martial arts like tai chi and kung fu are practiced by young and old alike, champions of MMA may beat old-school masters in matches, but they can’t win a cultural battle that has been raging for years.
The outspoken Chinese MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong—also known as “Mad Dog”—was recently ordered by a Chinese court to pay 400,000 yuan (nearly $58,000) in fines and publicly apologize on social media—seven days consecutively—for insulting tai chi grandmaster Chen Xiaowang. His social credit score has been lowered, and the South China Morning Post reports that Xu also faces travel restrictions for accusing Chen of being a fake master. As a result, Xu can’t ride in second class or above on planes or sleeper trains, and cannot ride high-speed trains at all (and if he had kids they’d face prohibitions, too).
Despite the legal smackdown and accompanying constraints, however, Xu is fighting for his fight style, and winning. It took him 36 hours to travel from Beijing to his latest bout in Karamay on May 21—thanks to the travel restrictions—yet he still managed to destroy traditional wing chun master Lu Gang.
Yeah, that fight is a lopsided slaughter. Fast-forward to 5:45 in to see the actual start of the fight:
The Tai Chi Master fight is even briefer:
And here’s Joe Rogan commenting on that fight:
There’s an old Chinese proverb that says that “the nail which stands up must be hammered down.” It doesn’t matter if your martial art is demonstrably superior if the Party has already decided otherwise. Do you have any doubt that the Social Justice Warrior “cancel culture” hellbent on deplatforming and demonetizing conservatives would hesitate for a second if they could also keep you from buying plane tickets for exhibiting wrongthink by owning guns or thinking there are only two biologically determined sexes?
Florida stopped a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight between two consenting adults because they have disabilities. Garrett Holeve is a 23-year-old with Down’s Syndrome, while 28-year-old David Steffin has cerebral palsy.
Here’s a profile of Holeve:
Should Flordia allow an adult with Downs Syndrome to fight in an MMA event?
It appears on the surface that this is a hard case, given that MMA blows could reduce Holeve’s already diminished mental capacity. But it’s really not:
Is Holeve a free adult citizen of the United States? If so, he’s free to make up his own mind.
If Holeve is not a free adult, but is a ward of his parents, it is up to them to give their consent. As the above video makes clear, his father has determined that the benefits Garrett Holeve gets from MMA training and fighting (increased concentration and drive, greater physical well-being, etc.) outweigh the risk of injury.
Only if Garrett Holeve were a ward of the state of Florida should that state get to decide what he should do with his life. That is clearly not the case here.
If I had a Downs Syndrome son, I probably wouldn’t enroll him in an MMA program. But Garrett Holeve isn’t my son, and it’s not my call to make. Nor is it that of the state. The job of the state is not to protect people from themselves.