Posts by Megan Wegan
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Oh, and I am not begrudging anyone the opportunity to make money, I promise! And certainly, I would much rather see an athlete with a healthy body promoting things, than, say, Kate Moss or Lindsay Lohan.
I am frustrated by the double standard though, less-attractive male superstars will still get endorsments where their female counterparts wont - or certainly not as many or as much.
But my real complaint is when the women are asked to be attractive on the field - women golfers being asked to be more 'ladylike', the league teaching WNBA players to apply make up, that kind of thing.
If they are good at what they do, who cares what they look like while they are doing it?
-
Transsexuals' desires to be accepted as women haven't always been viewed kindly by feminists.
And grumpy old Germaine Greer isn't much better:
Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women's names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn't polite to say so. We pretend that all the people passing for female really are. Other delusions may be challenged, but not a man's delusion that he is female.
And there is other examples as well as Richards:
The Polish sprinter Ewa Klobukowska was the first Olympic athlete to be disqualified after a chromatin test, in 1967. She was stripped of her two Olympic medals and banned from all professional sports, yet later went on to get pregnant and bear a son.
-
Not that you'd know, right Jack?
-
"Gosh Dan you're playing a little too well. You're not on steroids by any chance?"
Yeah, but that's my point. Dan is a boy, who is a little girly, but he's fine. (And for the record, I don't think he really is a little bit girly, I just know he once straightened his hair, so he is a target for my argument.)
Meanwhile, Semenya is more manly than most women, although certainly not most athletic women, so she is questioned. That's what makes it a feminist issue. Because for women athletes, appearance, femininity and all that stuff is wrapped up in what they do so much more.
(Says she who is very much missing Richard Kahui, and hopes he is rapidly rehabilitating.)
-
Sarah! Did you buy shoes?
-
I’d suggest Daniel Carter’s Jockey selling career is founded on a little bit more than his ability as a rugby player.
Of course it is. My point is no one is suggesting that because he had his hair chemically straightened, he's too much of a girl to play rugby.
-
For example Kournikova sucked really badly, but could earn more in a tournament than the eventual winner just for drawing in crowds.
Not to mention endorsements.
-
People are just going "oh yeah, OK, she must be a dude b/c she's too good and not stereotypically attractive", like many other female athletes. (You ignore the sexualisation of women's sport at your peril, I think
Exactly. Because between issues like Semenya's, and complete asshattery like this how are women athletes meant to win? Wouldn't it be nice to just let them compete and be good? (Yes, I know I'm naive)
But these are issues that women athletes have to deal with in a way that the men don't. No one is telling Dan Carter that he's too pretty to play rugby, or A-Rod* that he throws like a girl so they are going to have to gender test him.
Yeah, but that issue is nothing to do with the sport. That's about people being asshats at every possible opportunity (and I would say that it's not a solely feminist issue either).
Well, it is when it's the other athletes and officials saying it. And very few things are solely feminist issues. :)
*Yes, I know there will be a much better, and less fraught example of a baseball player, but he was the only one I could think of.
-
I wish one of these dumbfuck assholes would say something original once in while, srsly.
Which was basically my response.
Something along the lines of "Oh, I love men. I just hate fuckwits who seem to think I don't have a brain of my own and are frightened when I use it. Like, oh, you."
-
Bart:
The shoes: plain black flats, I'm afraid. We can't be fabulous all the time.
The food: Divine. Smoked fish cakes, venison Osso Bucco, and Churros con chocolate, with a Palliser reisling and fabulous service and good company. Not as good as last time I went, but there was a lot more wine that time, and the bill was over $250 for two of us. (Totally worth it)
Right up there with "you're a man hater", for which the only sane response is the pre eminently rational "I don't hate men, I hate dickheads -- why don't you?"
I actually got this one on the weekend. But with the double whammy of "no wonder you are still single when you hate men so much".
And Angus, if you are still around, I am still waiting on an answer to this question
Is that harassment? Was I taking "offense at someones innocent endeavour to engage" me? And how exactly could I have protected myself against it?