Olympics
Patriarchy to world-class female athletes: okay, you can compete, but you have to wear porn outfits
Women’s track uniforms; men’s track uniform. Men’s beach volleyball uniforms; women’s beach volleyball…uniforms. Those are from a photo essay at Hoyden About Town: Women still the sex class in international elite sports Also check this one out from a couple of years ago, showing the trend in pornification: If bare midriffs and short-shorts really made [...]
Just in case you still had questions about where women’s figure skating fits in the grand scheme of things
From an actual article today by an actual newspaper reporter: “The Olympic women’s figure skating competition, which concludes Thursday night with the long program and the adornment of a new gold medalist, has the required elements of beauty, style, seductiveness, skill and tension.” Seductiveness? Seductiveness is a requirement now? And Slate’s article today on women’s [...]
The Beauty of Ice Dancing
Patriarchy on Ice: now with fewer exposed crotch shots
This is the first Winter Olympics since the skating poobahs dropped the rule that women had to wear skirts. That’s right, it used to be in the rulebook that female figure skaters had to compete in skirts — no trousers, no unitards. Hence the startling displays of exposed crotchitude that have been a feature of [...]
Live blogging the Opening Ceremony!
As promised, here we go with live-blogging the Olympics Opening Ceremony. In past years I’ve live-blogged the opening ceremony to the furniture in my living room, my dog, and various imaginary friends. Now, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, I can live-blog to a whole world of furniture, dogs, and imaginary friends! Woo hoo!
Live Blogging the Olympics Tonight
The Olympics Opening Ceremony will be on NBC tonight at 8pm. I’ll be blogging it live, though of course the ceremony itself won’t be live. It’s already happening right now in Italy. Our U.S. television coverage will be 6 hours behind. I love the Olympics Opening Ceremony. This one sounds like it’s going to be [...]
