Posts by Megan Wegan
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NBA basketballers and their treatment of women doesn't have a particularly good reputation.
True, although that argument can be made for every (professional) sport ever, I think.
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So just remember that next time you're fawning over the pretty boys and girls, they will always come back to hurt you.
Words to live by.
I could be looking at this through rose-tinted lenses, but the NBA seems relatively free from the kind of steroid/assaulty bad behaviour you're talking about. I can't think of any major scandals of the past couple of years, at least.
The referees are a very different story indeed.
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He should have said "people" where he said "women" and it would have been fine.
Amen.
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On Mondays I'm a little busy, 'kay?
I feel your pain, Giovanni. I go away for like a day, and come back to find:
I increasingly feel that many Gen X & Y women feel entitled to everything without having to give up years of partying and travel to have babies in their 20's or early 30's.
And while I recognise that no one actually directed this at me, and I don't really want to continue the threadjack, but: Yes, I am one of those women, what of it?
Cos, frankly, I like my partying and my travelling and my having a career and all that good stuff. Playing with my one-year old cousin a couple of weeks ago just about made my ovaries explode with the cuteness, but I don't want a baby. Yet.
Where is it written that I can't at least TRY to have it all? Don't I have the right to make that decision all on my own, and ignore all the OH MY GOD YOU ARE 30? QUICK HAVE A BABY BEFORE YOU TURN INTO A BARREN, CAT-LOVING SPINSTER headline scaremongering?
That's what Mary Tyler Moore taught me, anyway.
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unless I do it during Buffy when I should barely have to move.
There's no African masks in your house, is there?
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but I for one am just happy she's not blind/dead/vegitablized.
F'ing oath.
(I'll try not to give you all funny voices).
German weightlifter for me, pls.
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Quick! Someone give me a gender test!
Danielle! You're in the wrong thread!!
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And, yeah, I know athletes are nice to look at. As I say, Richard Kahui... (Or Shane Bond, depending on the season.)
But surely we could get past things of the "Hockey's newest hottie" sexualisation, and the expectation that women still look a certain way, even while competing, and recognise them as awesome no matter what their hair colour or body shape?
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(I think Thorne is in the new Weetbix ad btw)
You might be right there, but they all look the same to me...
Isn't he in that "buy our water and we'll give some money to some cute children" ad too? I could quite well be wrong though.
It seems quite possible that the women themselves do, just like ordinary non-athlete women like to look good.
God, of course they could. And I'm not saying Flo Jo can't sport her nails, and Maria Sharapova can't wear her short skirts and her lip gloss. Having spent the better past of a week over on Up front talking about shoes, I can hardly complain about that, can I?
Of course there's nothing wrong with wanting to look nice. But isn't there something a little wrong with officials offering make up lessons to rookies? (The original news article which refences is gone, annoyingly.)
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I reckon that any attractive female who goes to a singles bar with the intention of having a good time with friends is going to be subjected to a high number of unwanted sexual advances of varying unsophistication (irrespective of whatever she wears) possibly causing her to become harassed.
And I don't know how many times we have to tell you. It has nothing to do with how attractive the woman is. Or where she is or what she is doing. An UNWANTED sexual advance is an UNWANTED sexual advance.
And no, we won't shut up and stop complaining about it because it is the way of the world. I might be naive, but I am still of the belief that if there is something wrong with the world if is incumbent on me to complain as damn loudly as I can about it.
A guy talking to me in a bar (if we're going to continue talking about that scenario) is not harassment. Offering to buy me a drink isn't harassment. And frankly, if 'several' men in a row offered to by me a drink in a night, I'd consider that a success.
What is unacceptable, what we are complaining about, is assuming that buying me a drink entitles you to invade my personal space. To ask me to "show [you] my tits". To follow me when I go to the bathroom. To tell your friends that because I have (politely or otherwise) refused you, that I must be frigid.
You seem to think we are complaining about "feeling harassed", and not actually being harassed . We're not. We're saying that being out in public does not give you the right to assume we are available to you, in any way, unless we indicate we are.
I don't know how to put it anymore simply than that.