Awake in America
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Awake in America, I'm not criticizing you personally because I like your posts and you're a good addition to the board. But your remark about wanting to know if the Chinese women are really women reminds me of how the U.S. media used to whine and complain the same way about the Soviet and East German females. That's the typical American m.o. -- if someone beats "us," then they must have cheated. The Chinese are doing very well in the medal count, therefore it can't be legitimate and so the corporate/CM media is whining about the Chinese women. I see just as many dubious looking American female athletes as I do Chinese ones, and have for a long time. The East Germans used to be mocked for having muscular women, now muscularity is "in" in the American matrix, including among athletes. Muscle bound women are part of the feminist-pushed paradigm of strong women dominating emasculated and submissive men.
China has four or five times the U.S. population. They are a rising economic and military power (thanks in large part to U.S. government policies). It's not a surprise that they're giving the U.S. a run for their money in sports as well.
Well, that was a pretty weak joke on my part, but they do have a history of cheating in swimming, and getting caught. I'll confine my comments to swimming, because that's the international sport I follow the closest. The East German women were cheating throughout the 70s and 80s. That is not sour American grapes, they just were, and they ultimately admitted it. It's no coincidence that the Chinese called on Klaus Rudolph for help with women's swimming before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Chinese immediately became very muscular, and a steroid and doping scandal followed in the 90s. We hear all sorts of stuff about how the Chinese select talent at a young age (7 is not young to begin competitive swimming), and how oh so hard they work (why, surely they must outwork their lazy white adversaries, the media implies). We haven't been told they eat a lot of yams yet, but I can see that one coming. It's not just that they're good, and they really aren't much more muscular than their opponents; it's that we are seeing improvements over short periods of time that are unprecedented. These girls are coming out of nowhere, knocking several seconds off of their personal bests in a few months' time, just like they did in the 1990s. They could be clean, but, it's very suspicious, and not unlike the explosion of Jamaican sprinters in track.
As to the strong women/emasculated men meme, I agree with you wholeheartedly. It's part of the leftwing agenda, and is in almost every television commercial, show, and movie in some way. At least with the Olympics, the women look muscular only until you see the men in comparison. Swimming will put some shoulders on you for sure. Personally, I like athletic women, but it's stupid when they are presented as physically equal to men.
Thanks for the compliment on being an addition to the board. I had no intention of posting so much when I registered, but the conversation is too good to resist. Plus, it's the Olympics, so there's actually white people doing sports on television! It's nice to watch sports, and not have to wonder why Jordy Nelson or Eric Decker aren't in the game, for example.