A feminist pop culture adventure Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:12:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 /2012/08/03/first-friday-links-of-august-olympic-edition/ /2012/08/03/first-friday-links-of-august-olympic-edition/#respond Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:00:22 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=11770

“Athleticism in women has generated social unease going back at least as far as the Greek myth of Atalanta”: Amanda Marcotte for the American Prospect, in a piece titled Olympic Girls Go Bad-Boy.

THIS KICKSTARTER HAS HOURS TO GO! “T-Rex: a documentary about 17 year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, the youngest woman – and one of the first – to ever box in the Olympics.”

Two Saudi Women Walk Different Paths To The Olympics.

“Women have struggled to find a ‘home’ in this sport for decades, and the struggle doesn’t end with this momentous occasion. However, becoming an Olympic sport does help to legitimize what many of us have known for years: women can box.” – Women’s Olympic Boxing 2012: History in the Making (boxing.com). Posting this link because Miranda’s off to the Women’s Boxing Semifinals next week. (Remember this post? The skirts idea got quashed, hurrah!) Expect some sort of frothy post on here.

“What makes you think we actually give a toss that you, personally, do not find us attractive?” – 18-year-old Team GB weightlifter Zoe Smith blogs on body image and Twitter.

“As for the insistence on punctuating the seconds between points in the women’s games with bursts of numbers such as I See You Baby (Shaking That Ass) – well…” – Marina Hyde for the Guardian on Benny Hill, beach volleyball, and the different ways women and men are filmed as athletes.

And a point very well made by Metro US: What If Every Olympic Sport Was Photographed Like Beach Volleyball?

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