Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
peggy says:
Those indoor shorts you link to are way longer than the ones my HS's volleyball team wore (which the current team still wears)–they refer(red) to them as "butts."
Christina says:
Thank you.
Actually, compare all the women's uniforms with the men's uniforms in the same sport and you'll note a trend, dare I say, even a pattern.
And beyond the obvious 'male gaze' and cheap ratings-getting aspects of it, studies have been done that show that performance is affected negatively by these sorts of outfits.
Samantha says:
I've always, from consciousness on, wondered why women's clothes seem to put them at a disadvantage in terms of mobility, climate protection, and general practicality. It's as if women have been set up from birth not to be able to get away or protect themselves without a big, stong, appropriately clad man on her arm.
j says:
Uhhh….what was that you were saying? *continues gazing intently at NBC volleyball coverage*
Cassie says:
Heh, I just heard a bit on this on NPR this evening. They interviewed a beach volleyball player who had medaled at Athens and she said that bikinis were the uniform of choice because they were the most comfortable to play in due to the fact that they prevented "sweat and sand from collecting in uncomfortable places." Well ok then, I guess they would know better than you or I.
I'm a pretty effing big feminist, but I have a hard time buying the sentiment being expressed here that they are obviously caving to the patriarchy. Beach volleyball may not be the most honored of sports, but these people have invested a significant part of their lives in training and probably want those medals as much as any other athlete. I can't see them jeopardizing that to look hot or for ratings or whatever it is people seem to be suggesting. Do people really think that if a one piece or a leotard or a jumper or burqua would improve their game, they wouldn't don one immediately?