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She's 'old, for a woman': Media around the world condemned for sexist Olympics coverage
http://www.latimes.com ^ | August 11, 2016 | Julie Makinen

Posted on 08/12/2016 2:44:56 AM PDT by Enterprise

In Germany, meanwhile, an equestrian commentator for ARD TV, Carsten Sostmeier, opened an interview with rider Julia Krajewski with, “Let's see what the blondie has to say.”

He went on to call her a “scaredy-cat" and said she was so afraid of the course that "there was a brown stripe in her panties."

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A commentator for Canada's CBC, Byron MacDonald, said that 14-year-old Chinese swimmer Ai Yanhan "went out like stink and died like a pig" in the 200-meter women’s freestyle heat.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: announcers; females; games; sportscasters
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"Went out like stink and died like pig." I don't think I've heard that one before.
1 posted on 08/12/2016 2:44:56 AM PDT by Enterprise
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The Swiss beach volleyball team has some serious hotties. None of the announcers mentioned it.


2 posted on 08/12/2016 2:58:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Enterprise

Really? I do that all the time.


3 posted on 08/12/2016 3:00:01 AM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: Enterprise
Dope cheat? Who cares?


4 posted on 08/12/2016 3:00:49 AM PDT by Drew68
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"The Swiss beach volleyball team has some serious hotties. None of the announcers mentioned it."

This may be why:

Male athletes become the sex objects at Olympics...

5 posted on 08/12/2016 3:03:36 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Drew68

Such a nice smiley face.


6 posted on 08/12/2016 3:05:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

There was some Daily Beast moron (Daily Beast is super anti-Trump) who used the homosexual hookup app Grinder to out a few athletes. Turned out that some lived in Muslim countries where they may face the death penalty for being ‘outed.’ The DB editor quickly removed the name, but damage had been done.


7 posted on 08/12/2016 3:05:36 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Drew68

The Russian swimmer. Hot but swimmers are a bit too muscular in the shoulders.

Beach volleyball ....

http://coed.com/2016/08/10/anouk-verge-depre-hottest-photos-hot-pics-swiss-switzerland-beach-volleyball-player-rio-olympics/#!gallery-inline-embed-956646-956660-8


8 posted on 08/12/2016 3:07:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Such a nice smiley face.

Yep. Call me sexist. I was rooting for Yulia Efimova only because she's so freakin' hot.

9 posted on 08/12/2016 3:08:38 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Enterprise

Just more of the snowflake generation and the radical feminists causing a row. Many of the male athletes have also received negative and belittling comments, but no one cares. And also, I don’t want to see some Muslim woman wearing a Hijab, screeching and strutting around in beach volleyball or anywhere telling us how great Islam is. And while the media is condemning us for not loving and “respecting” Islam, maybe they could spend a little of their time researching how women are mutilated, raped, enslaved, tortured, and subject to genital mutilation under Islam. The hypocrisy is stunning.


10 posted on 08/12/2016 3:09:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Enterprise

The homosexualization of the world.


11 posted on 08/12/2016 3:09:58 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s a bit surprising that a member of the media would out someone like that. If someone gets killed, how is he going to try to justify what he did?


12 posted on 08/12/2016 3:14:53 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: SkyPilot

In any given sport, the comments about men can be brutal. Men just take it and move on. Well, most of the time. I remember though when a Jim Everett shoved Jim Rome.


13 posted on 08/12/2016 3:22:15 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Reddy

That is what I was thinking.


14 posted on 08/12/2016 3:23:02 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Anybody here remember the East German women’s teams that competed in swimming and other Olympic sports back in the 1970s and 1980s? Real lookers some of them were, eh, lol?


15 posted on 08/12/2016 4:02:24 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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He won’t, the media will just ignore it, because it does not advance the agenda.


16 posted on 08/12/2016 4:08:35 AM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: OttawaFreeper

What the GDR government did to those girls was a sin.


17 posted on 08/12/2016 4:28:53 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceaucescu"))
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What the GDR government did to those girls was a sin.

Just as bad was what the severely biased GDR judges did to Western athletes' scores.

18 posted on 08/12/2016 4:54:38 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Drew68

The bidding starts at a million U.S.!


19 posted on 08/12/2016 4:57:21 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: OttawaFreeper
Anybody here remember the East German women’s teams that competed in swimming and other Olympic sports back in the 1970s and 1980s? Real lookers some of them were, eh, lol?

What's sad is these days it is the Eastern European athletes with wholesome good looks while we grace the world stage with a bunch of tattooed, scowling, angry, hijab-wearing, muscle-bound "females" of questionable gender.

20 posted on 08/12/2016 5:47:03 AM PDT by Drew68
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