"We'll have to wait and see. If in the meantime you're making all kinds of allegations about the IOC and how it's discriminating on the basis of gender the IOC may say, 'Oh yeah, I remember them. They're the ones that embarrassed us and caused us a lot of trouble in Vancouver, maybe they should wait another four years or eight years.'"Women ski jumpers have been trying to join the Olympics since 1998. (They currently aren't allowed. In 1991 when the IOC announced that all future Olympic sports would be open to both genders, they didn't apply that rule to the 16 original events from the 1924 Olympics. Ski jumping is one of the original 16.) The longest jump off Whistler B.C.'s ski jump built for this Olympics is held by Lindsey Van, the 2009 women's ski jump world champion. If her record is broken during the Games, it'll only be by a man. In other ski jump competitions men and women use identical jumps with the same depth of field.
As recently as 2005, another shining example of male idiocy came from Gian Franco Kaspar, another IOC member, who said he didn't think women should ski jump because the sport "seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view." Oh really? And what medical point of view is that? Ugh.
I want to become a member of the IOC so I can go and kick these guys in the nuts. It might not be gender bias that has kept women from ski jumping but it sure sounds like it.
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