Aug 14, 2012 Were We Too Harsh on Female Olympians?
The answer is yes. Here’s your post-2012 Olympic Games Round-Up of The Shortfalls in Womens Sports Broadcasting. Also known as Broad-Casting:
+The Japanese women’s soccer team and Australian women’s basketball team flew coach while their male counterparts enjoyed Business Class. Good job, men of Pacifica.
+Juvenile morons on Twitter harass Gabby Douglas about her unkempt hair, arguably causing enough stress to negatively affect her individual event competitions. [People also razzed her about wearing a pink leotard instead of an American flag…]
+LoLo Jones is accused of being a sex symbol, compared to Anna Kournikova. As if the misguided-dichotomy suffices to negate her record-breaking speed. LoLo then cries on The Today Show exasperated by the accusation, which I think is the greater injustice. No one deserves to cry on morning television.
+MULTIPLE rape histories packaged as inspirational back stories. One Olympic Hurdler had actually stated that she did NOT like to discuss her tragic past, and NBC STILL USED IT IN HER INTRODUCTION. DOWN TO THE VERY FACT THAT SHE DOES NOT LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
+Caster Semenya of South Africa has not received an apology from the IOC for the illegal gender-testing they performed on her after the last Olympics after she outran mens times.
+Ye Shiwen of China was accused of doping because she out-swam some of the mens times. [Note: I don’t personally believe in the witch hunt against steroid-users. Not to mention how naive you have to be to assume Olympians are actually “clean,” but given the range of abilities between men and women today, I think we can stop assuming a woman who can out-swim, out-run, out-play, out-and-out-win against mens records are “roid freaks.” Billie Jean King broke the glass net over thirty years ago, people. Wake up.]
