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Female Olympians fight back against shamers and haters
The Olympics may have provided us with a global exhibition of some seriously retrograde ideas about athletes and femininity, but they have also provided us with something even more important, and that’s the sight of female athletes fighting back.
This entire article and all of its accompanying links makes me want to cheer and weep at the same time.
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The Olympics may have provided us with a global exhibition of some seriously retrograde ideas about athletes and femininity, but they have also provided us with something even more important, and that’s the sight of female athletes fighting back.
This entire article and all of its accompanying links makes me want to cheer and weep at the same time.
This entry was originally posted at http://seventhe.dreamwidth.org/322986.html, which has
comments. Comment there (with OpenID) or here, it's all good.