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"Welcome to the Winter Olympics"

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Anonymous a woman said...

Two masculine single's figure skating champs and Oly medalists:

My very favorite: Viktor Petrenko(Ukraine, gold)

and Elvis Stojko (Canada, silver , twice).

Scott Hamilton, USA, won the gold too, but while he's straight and not at all fem, his skating was not as masculine in terms of raw power as that of Petrenko and Stojko but because of his small, slight stature and his attention to speed AND aesthetics.

Stojko was short yet powerful, masculine skater who refused to curb his athleticism in favor of aesthetics the way Hamilton did; he paid for that decision in judges' after judges' decisions and had to be content with silver.

The figure skating (including ice dancing) is really one of only a few sports (I do consider it a sport) I look forward to in the Olys.

I like the downhill, the ski jump and I pretty much hate anything having to do with ski boarding.

Oh, yeah, if the USA is in the hunt for a medal in hockey, I'll watch that.

2/6/14, 6:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Figure skating and gymnastics are natural sports for women not only because they are pretty to watch, but also because the winner is picked in a popularity contest rather than according to objective criteria.

2/6/14, 7:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Micro aggression:

“I wish GPS had an “avoid ghetto” setting!”

My friends facebook status, in denver trying to find her way around the city. She’s a fellow lesbian who is in many of my sociology courses. Makes me feel frustrated, angry and hopeless due to the amount of “likes” it had.


http://www.microaggressions.com/

2/6/14, 8:02 PM

Anonymous Dave Pinsen said...

"Figure skating and gymnastics are natural sports for women not only because they are pretty to watch, but also because the winner is picked in a popularity contest rather than according to objective criteria."

There are probably specific criteria to judge, but the judging is subjective, as all judging is. That's true in some men's sports too, where there's a judging component. For example, absent a knockout, boxing and MMA matches go to judges scorecards. There's also plenty of subjective judging in the NFL, of whether a receiver "had possession" of a ball before he went down, etc.

2/6/14, 8:16 PM

Anonymous Cail Corishev said...

"Makes me feel frustrated, angry and hopeless due to the amount of “likes” it had."

I feel frustrated, angry, and hopeless that college students don't know the difference between 'amount' and 'number' anymore.

2/6/14, 8:33 PM

Anonymous 2Degrees said...

Your comments on lesbians are essentially correct. My gay father had five unmarried sisters, two of who were frustrated straights and two were out-and-out dykes. The fifth was never allowed a life as an adult and remained her parents' devoted slave. She then went on to being her sisters' devoted slave.

Lesbians fundamentally fit into three categories:

1). The tomboy. She will usually marry and have children, because she likes the company of men. However, the fact that she likes rough and tumble with the lads doesn't mean she's into sport. Rugby has huge numbers of female fans both in UK and NZ, but they are overwhelmingly normal women.

The tomboy will not keep a particularly clean kitchen.

2). The pretty lady. On the surface, they are extremely feminine, but they find men dirty and repulsive.

They will keep a spotless kitchen.

3). The real man in a woman's body. They are the rarest of the three, but make up a majority of organised dykedom.

You showed a picture of that Chinese property moguls gay daughter. She was class 2, her friend was class 3.

2/6/14, 8:36 PM

Anonymous Oswald Spengler said...

2Degrees said...

"3). The real man in a woman's body. They are the rarest of the three, but make up a majority of organised dykedom."

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What kind of kitchens do the man-in-a-woman's-body bulldykes keep? Or do the butches leave kitchen upkeep to lesbian categories 1 and 2?

2/6/14, 8:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

it is *amazing* how figure skating has been almost uniformly homosexual in the anglophone world while being almost boorishly mannish in the russo/slavic world. Russian figure skaters are infamous for their mistresses/conquests etc. It really draws to stark attention the whole subtext of sochi being "the gay games" and Russian objection thereto.

2/6/14, 8:53 PM

Anonymous Dan said...

The biathlon is a hardcore pleasure.

2/6/14, 9:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The wild card and humorous story in all of this at Sochi Olympics.

Former Summer Olympian Track Hurdler Lolo Jones qualified for the US Winter Olympic Bobsledding Team. She's back, folks!

She's serious, determined, and she's goin' for the Gold!

This was the athlete who fell at the next to last hurdle during the 08 Beijing Games and came in last when she was leading up to then.

In the 12 London Games She came in 4th.

This time, she's tanned, rested, determined, and ready to finally get a medal and in the Winter games not the Summer.

The fact that she qualified for an entirely different set of games is definitely commendable.

Let's see if she can do it and finally realize the dream.

Go, Lolo, Go!

Bring home the medal for the US!

"Americans Love a Winner"---from film Patton

2/6/14, 10:53 PM

Anonymous Uncle Peregrine said...

"it is *amazing* how figure skating has been almost uniformly homosexual in the anglophone world while being almost boorishly mannish in the russo/slavic world. Russian figure skaters are infamous for their mistresses/conquests etc. It really draws to stark attention the whole subtext of sochi being "the gay games" and Russian objection thereto."

In the old Soviet Union, figure skating would have been one of the few paths to a privileged life, drawing more competition from straight men than in the Anglosphere.

2/6/14, 11:32 PM

Anonymous slumber_j said...

This is pretty off-topic, but does anyone know what's with the evident top-down mandate to rename the bobsled? Wouldn't the now-preferred "bobsleigh" imply Clydesdales or the like? On skates, perhaps?

As usual, I don't see why that name has to be changed--c.f. "Torino" for Turin a few years back.

2/7/14, 6:46 AM

Anonymous as said...

I loved watching Plushenko skate. Very graceful.

I liked Lycasek as well.

Seconding "a woman": I liked Petrenko.

It's very enjoyable to watch a man who is masculine and graceful.

2/7/14, 8:26 AM

Blogger Maguro said...

I was doing research for a possible TV sitcom script about the International Olympics Committee.

It's gold, Jerry! Gold, I tell you!

2/7/14, 12:57 PM

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