The New York Times on Wojdan Shaherkani, the first female Saudi Olympian.
The Guardian on women’s boxing, the first year this “bastion of masculinity” has been a medal sport at the Olympics (Did you know that until 1998, the British Boxing Board of Control denied women boxers licenses on the grounds that PMS makes us too unstable? Yeah, fuck those guys.)
And for a delightful interlude of hetero objectification, thanks to Jill at Feministe for linking to 33 Things To Love About Men’s Water Polo.
Waking up to that water polo post has put a very bright smile on my face.
This Olympics has been quite bad for my feminist-rage blood pressure! I started a bit of a bunfight at Horse and Hound after their Olympic preview featuring: ‘Pretty mother’ Sara Algotsson-Ostholt, ‘diminutive’ Valentina Truppo, and ‘glamorous’ Edwina Topps-Alexander, but nothing at all on any of the male riders’ parenthood status etc.
Then this: http://www.metro.us/newyork/sports/article/1148979–what-if-every-olympic-sport-was-photographed-like-beach-volleyball
this: http://jezebel.com/5931086/some-olympics-photographers-are-leering-pretty-hard-at-beach-volleyball-players?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow,
the weighlifter getting rotten tweets for not looking hot, etc etc…