WHAT KIND OF OLYMPICS ARE THESE ANYWAY?
I wasn't very true to my word. I watched a lot of the Olympics this year. From the Opening ceremony to Mark Phelps to synchronized diving to beach volleyball. I tried to watch regular volleyball but didn't know the rules. Especially the one about the guy who wore a different uniform and was called a defensive specialist or something.
But I totally missed the cheerleaders. Not just from the host country or the US, but from Brazil, Russia, South Korea, and other countries. When did this start? And how do you get to be a cheerleader for your country?
Maybe my misogynism is showing, but shouldn't the cheerleaders for your country be from the WACs or WAVES? At least something patriotic? Maybe the DRA?
I don't know. These young women look like Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, with lots of hair and sex appeal. I guess that's ok, but I thought I remembered when the Olympics were less Hollywood and glamour.
Jennie Finch is one thing. She's a great athlete, among others, who happen to be attractive. The 400 meter gal for the US is another. But to flaunt, to jiggle...I don't know; it just seems out of place at the Olympics.
Kinda like the gymnastics judging that penalizes one landing and turns its eyes away from another which was worse.
Sometimes first hunches, like mine not to watch much of this Olympics, are the correct ones. And I haven't even complained about all the commercials.
I wasn't very true to my word. I watched a lot of the Olympics this year. From the Opening ceremony to Mark Phelps to synchronized diving to beach volleyball. I tried to watch regular volleyball but didn't know the rules. Especially the one about the guy who wore a different uniform and was called a defensive specialist or something.
But I totally missed the cheerleaders. Not just from the host country or the US, but from Brazil, Russia, South Korea, and other countries. When did this start? And how do you get to be a cheerleader for your country?
Maybe my misogynism is showing, but shouldn't the cheerleaders for your country be from the WACs or WAVES? At least something patriotic? Maybe the DRA?
I don't know. These young women look like Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, with lots of hair and sex appeal. I guess that's ok, but I thought I remembered when the Olympics were less Hollywood and glamour.
Jennie Finch is one thing. She's a great athlete, among others, who happen to be attractive. The 400 meter gal for the US is another. But to flaunt, to jiggle...I don't know; it just seems out of place at the Olympics.
Kinda like the gymnastics judging that penalizes one landing and turns its eyes away from another which was worse.
Sometimes first hunches, like mine not to watch much of this Olympics, are the correct ones. And I haven't even complained about all the commercials.
posted by TQ @ 4:55 AM
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