ski jumping women
Are Canadians getting as arrogant as our neighbours to the south? I know that we adopt American TV, music, films and culture...but do we have to adopt the arrogrance of 'our ideas in our country have to be respected across the world'? What am I refering to? the female ski jumpers and their quest to get recognized as an Olympic event.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080108/Ski_Jumpers_080108/20080108?hub=Canada
Canadian gov't wants to step in and say that they support the Canadian female ski jumpers wanting to be recognized. They have people screaming out discrimination and how it is against the law to discriminate against something based on genders. Looks like ski jumping has the grand father clause against the gender discrimination thing because any game introduced to the Olympics has to have both male and female sides, but ski jumping has been around since 1924.
Guess it all depends on just getting the numbers. The article says that the game has to be practiced in 25 countries on 3 continents to be considered an event. So, they get the numbers, they have a case. If it is a case of Canada has a huge show up (83 women) but only 15 other countres have female jumpers, then sit down and quite making a big fuss. I mean, I am all for equality and all, but equality means equality. If you dont have the numbers, being female or male means nothing.
Now I am reading that there is talk about boycotting the games to make their point. Oh please please please boycott. Historically the Olympics were only played by men with men watching the games since the games were designed for both country peace and harmony as well as preparing men for war and battle games. I mean, look at the original events..running, jumping, javelin (weapon), discus (another weapon item) and swimming...all designed for war. Ski jumping? bob sleigh? luge? Not exactly war based now are they? Unless you are strapping your soldiers in spandex, shoving a skate up their butts and shooting them down icy slopes and making them turn by doing kegal exercises, not war based. Females...boycott the Olympics and all you will be doing is returning the Olympics back to their original state before females came into the scene. No great loss to the moment and society.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080108/Ski_Jumpers_080108/20080108?hub=Canada
Canadian gov't wants to step in and say that they support the Canadian female ski jumpers wanting to be recognized. They have people screaming out discrimination and how it is against the law to discriminate against something based on genders. Looks like ski jumping has the grand father clause against the gender discrimination thing because any game introduced to the Olympics has to have both male and female sides, but ski jumping has been around since 1924.
Guess it all depends on just getting the numbers. The article says that the game has to be practiced in 25 countries on 3 continents to be considered an event. So, they get the numbers, they have a case. If it is a case of Canada has a huge show up (83 women) but only 15 other countres have female jumpers, then sit down and quite making a big fuss. I mean, I am all for equality and all, but equality means equality. If you dont have the numbers, being female or male means nothing.
Now I am reading that there is talk about boycotting the games to make their point. Oh please please please boycott. Historically the Olympics were only played by men with men watching the games since the games were designed for both country peace and harmony as well as preparing men for war and battle games. I mean, look at the original events..running, jumping, javelin (weapon), discus (another weapon item) and swimming...all designed for war. Ski jumping? bob sleigh? luge? Not exactly war based now are they? Unless you are strapping your soldiers in spandex, shoving a skate up their butts and shooting them down icy slopes and making them turn by doing kegal exercises, not war based. Females...boycott the Olympics and all you will be doing is returning the Olympics back to their original state before females came into the scene. No great loss to the moment and society.
posted by Capt_Canuck at 11:23 PM
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