Podium Girls

[Radchenister]

PS - Shall we move onto the subject of egocentricity?

 

[400bhp]

That's rather opressive and patronising to ALL people !

Infer what you like.

That's the point.

 

[SlipperySquid]

He was merely inviting you to think. The invitation seems to have been wasted.

Not really and at the end of the day it swings both ways.

 

[SlipperySquid]

Nice! Going on your form to date, I'd strongly advise you against getting into a discussion of aesthetics.

Wow! you're like "Batman". Jumping in when ever there is a need? I'm sure some one else from your little clique will be along shortly to back you up?

 

[theclaud]

Not really and at the end of the day it swings both ways.

You've not used "stands to reason" yet.

 

[SlipperySquid]

 

[theclaud]

PS - Shall we move onto the subject of egocentricity?

I'll have the penne alla arrabiata.

 

[User169]

You've not used "stands to reason" yet.

Slippery squid is Professor Emeritus of Common Sense at the University of Well It Stands To Reason Doesn’t It I Mean Are You Blind Or What. You can challenge him for tenure but unless you have a PhD in Only Saying What Everyone’s Thinking I wouldn’t rate your chances.

 

[theclaud]

Interesting self-image there.

 

[SlipperySquid]

Slippery squid is Professor Emeritus of Common Sense at the University of Well It Stands To Reason Doesn’t It I Mean Are You Blind Or What. You can challenge him for tenure but unless you have a PhD in Only Saying What Everyone’s Thinking I wouldn’t rate your chances.

That really did make me chortle....

 

[theclaud]

Slippery squid is Professor Emeritus of Common Sense at the University of Well It Stands To Reason Doesn’t It I Mean Are You Blind Or What. You can challenge him for tenure but unless you have a PhD in Only Saying What Everyone’s Thinking I wouldn’t rate your chances.

I just assumed he was playing some kind of idiot bingo.

 

[SlipperySquid]

I'll have the penne alla arrabiata.

You'll need a tray.

 

[SlipperySquid]

I just assumed he was playing some kind of idiot bingo.

No that game stopped pages ago when you got the full house....B'dumtish!

 

[theclaud]

No that game stopped pages ago when you got the full house....B'dumtish!

OK well now that it's over perhaps we can get back on topic. The Podium "girls" convention is demeaning to women, insulting to men, idiotic and infantilising, and unworthy of the sport. It proclaims that men do stuff and women are for decoration and for the approbation of men's achievements. It values women only for looking nice and behaving like good little girls. It objectifies women, and validates men's right to look at and judge them, and (as we have seen recently) touch them or subject them to unwanted sexual attention. It trivialises women's cycling by implication. It is discriminatory. It perpetuates inequality. It validates men's right to look at and judge women, and (as we have seen recently) to touch them or subject them to unwanted sexual attention. It is patronising to the winning cyclists. Get rid.

 

[yello]

Can that be a sticky please?