Top Secret!
Men Competing Against Women is Unfair.
Val Kilmer, who recently passed away at age 65, appeared briefly in the 2022 Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 original. Two years before, Kilmer appeared in a film dealing with a current issue: men competing against women.
The 1984 Top Secret!, from the same crew that produced Airplane! in 1980, targeted East Germany’s (German Democratic Republic) Olympic team. Their women boasted male physiques, male voices, Adam’s apples and such, and they won 90 percent of the medals against actual women. So the film’s portrayal of the GDR squad as male bodybuilders was not much of a stretch, and the story wasn’t new.
Recall that in 1960, decidedly male-looking Tamara Press of the Soviet Union won Olympic medals in women’s shot put and discus, and “sister” Irina, of similar profile, won gold in hurdles. The International Amateur Athletic Federation Instituted a sex-testing policy in 1966, and the Press sisters promptly pulled out of the European championships, with Tamara conveniently retiring in 1967. As it turns out, the East German Communists had taken a cue from their National Socialist predecessors.
In 1936, the Nazis told high-jumper Heinrich Ratjen he must “pretend to be a girl,” to bring glory to the Nazi regime. In the 1938 European Women’s Championships in Vienna, “Dora” Ratjen broke the world record in the women’s high jump. In 1957, in his only statement to the press, Ratjen told a British publication that he was “never a woman” and “forced by the Nazis to pose as one.”
American males such as William “Lia” Thomas, a former member of the men’s swim team at Penn, may be unaware of the Nazi and Communist antecedents for “trans” fakery. The Soviets had their dictatorship of the proletariat and vast swaths of the USA still live under the Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood (DSM), the primary generator of reality dysphoria.
Val Kilmer came at a time when you could laugh at such absurdities. In current conditions, Dave Chappelle is about the only high-profile comic to take on the “alphabet people.” The time has come for feature films that do the same. So rest in peace Val Kilmer, star of Top Secret!, Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever.
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Why are we still not giving offense to the cheaters? Why can't we call them cheaters? These men are cheating. Why is that so hard to say?
The purpose of organized sport is to prevent cheating.
Let's bring back this simple, descriptive word, and name the cheaters for what they are.
Val Kilmer WAS Jim Morrison in the Doors movie. In the long run, the women who refuse to compete against men will be honored, just as we are grateful to those athletes who refused to take a knee in the BLM era.