{"id":11770,"date":"2012-08-03T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2012-08-03T07:12:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:12:21","slug":"first-friday-links-of-august-olympic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/08\/03\/first-friday-links-of-august-olympic-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"First
Friday Links of August: Olympic Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    &#8220;Athleticism in women has generated social unease going back at least
    as far as the Greek myth of Atalanta&#8221;: Amanda Marcotte for the
    American Prospect, in a piece titled <a
    href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/olympic-girls-go-bad-boy\">Olympic
    Girls Go Bad-Boy<\/a>.<\/li>\n
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    <strong
      >THIS KICKSTARTER HAS HOURS TO GO!<\/strong> <a href=\"documentary about
      17 year-old Claressa Shields, the youngest woman - and one of the first -
      to ever box in the Olympics.\">&#8220;T-Rex: a documentary about 17
      year-old Claressa &#8220;T-Rex&#8221; Shields, the youngest woman &#8211;
      and one of the first &#8211; to ever box in the
      Olympics.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n
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        <a href=\"Saudi women walk different paths to Olympics Read more here:
        http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/07\/25\/2911821\/2-saudi-women-walk-different-paths.html#storylink=cpy\">Two
        Saudi Women Walk Different Paths To The Olympics<\/a>.<\/li>\n
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        &#8220;Women have struggled to find a &#8216;home&#8217; in this sport
        for decades, and the struggle doesn\u2019t 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.&#8221; &#8211; <a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.boxing.com\/womens_olympic_boxing_2012_history_in_the_making.html\">Women&#8217;s
        Olympic Boxing 2012: History in the Making<\/a> (boxing.com). Posting
        this link because Miranda&#8217;s off to the Women&#8217;s Boxing
        Semifinals next week. (<a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/11\/01\/boxer-girl-give-us-a-twirl\/\">Remember
        this post?<\/a> The skirts idea got quashed, hurrah!) Expect some sort
        of frothy post on here.<\/li>\n
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        &#8220;What makes you think we actually give a toss that you,
        personally, do not find us attractive?&#8221; &#8211; <a
        href=\"http:\/\/zoepablosmith.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/23\/thanks-but-no-thanks\/\">18-year-old
        Team GB weightlifter Zoe Smith blogs on body image and Twitter<\/a>.
        <\/li>\n
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        &#8220;As for the insistence on punctuating the seconds between points
        in the women&#8217;s games with bursts of numbers such as
        <strong
          >I See You Baby (Shaking That Ass)<\/strong> \u2013 well&#8230;&#8221;
          &#8211; <a
          href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/blog\/2012\/jul\/28\/london-2012-beach-volleyball-horse-guards\">Marina
          Hyde for the
          <strong
            >Guardian<\/strong> on Benny Hill, beach volleyball, and the
            different ways women and men are filmed as athletes.<\/a><\/li>\n
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              And a point very well made by Metro US: <a
              href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/philadelphia\/international\/article\/1148979\">What
              If Every Olympic Sport Was Photographed Like Beach
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