At the 2016 summer Olympics Elaine Thompson of Jamaica won gold with a time of 10.71 seconds. In the same games, Usain Bolt, also of Jamaica, won with a time of 9.81 seconds. Although there was less than a second's difference between these two athletes, if men and women had been running in the same event, then Thompson wouldn't even have made it into the final race. In fact, she would have been easily out-run by Jamaican boys competing in the under-seventeen category, just as the United States women's national football team in 2017 were beaten by the Dallas under-fifteen boys' team, composed of boys who had just crossed the crucial puberty line and so had begun to develop the strength and power of adult men. The women's category has traditionally been protected in elite sports because, if it were not protected, there would be no women in elite sports—men would outcompete them every time.

—Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

A small New York agency recently hired personable actors to go into swanky watering holes like the Royalton, Cafe Tabac, and Bloom and ask for a martini made with Hennessy cognac rather than the usual gin or vodka. When the barkeep said that he had never heard of such a drink, the actors would explain in loud detail exactly what brands to use. J&B Scotch would hire beautiful women to walk into bars, order J&B, and grandly turn on their heel if there wasn't any.

—James B. Twitchell, Adcult: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture

The postmodern understanding of truth-as-power leads to a postmodern political praxis, in which language is intentionally manipulated to institute these new modes of reality. This is why there is so much emphasis on policing speech—creating new pronouns and mandating their use, constantly changing the definitions of terms like gender, continually proliferating new categories of and subcategories of identity and desire. This is a concerted effort to enforce a new truth-script through an exercise of power.

—Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender

The first intercity trip of Benz's three-wheeler took place two years later, in August 1888. Benz's wife Bertha took the couple's two sons and, without her husband's knowledge, drove the three-wheeler from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother, a distance of about 100 km.

—Vaclav Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century