I was all set to do Day 2 of my Olympic diary. It was a day for the girls. Team GB ( hate using that can i just use GB?) got off the mark with the medals, creating scenes of mass media hysteria and coverage. Lizzie Armistead got a silver medal in the women's road race & Rebecca Addlington got a bronze. A superb performance and richly deserved.
It was inspirational to see the cycling, she went with the break with an hour and 40km to go, hung in there and just lost out on the line to the butch Dutch woman Michelle Voss, who's teammate was, for a female athlete, rather superbly called Marie Van Dyke.
Lizzie clinched the silver after a gripping race in pissing wet conditions and it just made you want to get out on the bike and cycle the course. Superb and what the games is all about.
She was lead item on 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock news, radio, Internet, twitter, everywhere. Just a little over the top with coverage for a silver but well won none the less. Just showed the UK media's thirst for any kind of British success, not that the media blow anything out of proportion of course.
I was going to write about how everyone was suddenly hooked on road cycling, how fantastic the course looked, the support, how i was out of the chair cheering and shouting at the TV, how i cannot sit still when the race was getting down to 'the business end' (love that term always sounds ultra dirty to me) - I was well up for it, buzzing and that was just for silver. Just imagine what i will be like when that bloke in the boat wins gold at sailing a boat with a sail or something.
Speaking of which I just don't get sailing as an Olympic sport or as a TV spectator sport, it's like watching someone hoovering. #dull. But as long as GB win golds and are the best, who gives a fuck. I don't care if it's as boring as a reformed smoker. If GB wins gold. It stays.
I was going to write about Rebecca Adlington winning bronze in 400m freestyle, about how Frankie Boyle has received pelters by saying she looks like a dolphin. I was going to write about the mass hysteria in what was just a joke, about how good a swimmer and athlete she is and that joking about someone doesn't mean you don't admire them or their efforts. The media are total wankers, not the comedian or indeed any athlete who doesn't win a medal.
I think the media will annoy me more than anything this Olympics. You are either a hero if you win or a failure of you don't. Black and white and i genuinely despise our media for that, very ignorant.
For instance Piers Morgan tweeting today that Cavendish should stop moaning for blaming the Aussies for riding negatively in yesterdays road race. I'm sorry but what the fuck does that smug cunt know about world class bike racing? Who the fuck is he? He became the worlds biggest cunt today. He was already in the top 10 but he went straight to number 1 with such a pig ignorant, arrogant, self opinionated view. Not only was it wrong but fucking stupid too. He is basically a 3d walking talking tabloid newspaper. #cunt
If there was an Olympic cunt competition, Morgan would win it by miles. Clegg would get silver and then take your pick for bronze between Terry, Diamond and Katonia......
I was going to write about how much i admired the gymnastics today. The parallel bars which to most Brits is The Rose & Crown and White Swan next door. The vault, floorshow and rings. Wow those guys are amazing. Though i was disappointed as 'the floorshow' wasn't what i was hoping for.
I was also going to write about how drawn to the weightlifting i was and how i was super impressed by the women's 57kg lifting class. The girl from Sweden had the most incredible snatch. So impressive. GB's was pretty average and Russia's was just immense. #wrong
But all of this went out the window when tonight Channel 4 aired a documentary about 50 shades of Grey and how BDSM has infiltrated the mass market and popular culture because of the trilogy.
I haven't read them, but i have been informed they have sold loads of copies and is basically Mills & Boon with butt plugs. Christian Grey is a Dom and uses a variety of willing 'slaves' to perform sm and bdsm games. It's apparently trash that you just can't put down.
Interesting programme and exploring the whole ethos behind female submission and role play of the master and sub. They interviewed couples, writers, women and had some women debating it round a table and as a total cliche had a fat loud feminist denouncing the depiction of females in submission as setting feminism back 50 years. I'm not so sure BDSM and women admitting they like being 'led' sets feminism back 50 years, i think she did.
Now it's dangerous ground for me, a man to criticise feminists. It's just not PC, but why was she the loudest, spoke longest and forcibly tried to get her point across. Most feminists i see interviewed give off a distinct lack of humour or self deprecation and tonight she missed the fucking point so much, it made me shout at the tellie as much as i was for the road race. #fuming.
Lets get it straight, most people's sexual preferences are private and aside from everyday life. A lot of women have fantasies of being dominated and giving control to the man. This is just in a sexual sense, but most miss the point that this is not in life, in society, is not part of a misogynistic or inferior role. Domination and submission is actually based on nurture, love, respect and safety. If a woman is loved enough, feels safe enough and respected enough with a man, she is then comfortable to give up the control and be dominated. It fulfills a base primal urge deep down that is far more complicated and deeper than mere male/female roles.
The feminist missed this point, instead seeing it in exactly the same way as the media do of the Olympics, black and white and simply refused to look deeper into it and consider a balanced view.
It was interesting, today was a day for the girls in the Olympics. They delivered GB's first medals. A world class cyclist and swimmer. Forget all the banter about fitness, bodies and Frankie Boyle's pretty insensitive joke about looks. These girls are great role models.
They have trained so hard, dedicated their lives to their sport and got deserved media coverage for their sport. They are fine female role models. I wasn't looking at them in a female objectification way. They were athletes, i was supporting them. They delivered. Sex didn't matter, nor does ethnic origin when supporting sport. Surely that is what they wanted all those years ago? equality. Don't judge me by the colour of my skin or my sex, judge me for what i do and am?
But then on the documentary, it concentrated on the relationship between sexual domination and submission. Now it maybe that some powerful women, women who have been in control of their lives, raising kids, building a career, nurturing all and sundry and they need therefore to fulfill a yearning to relinquish that control in sexual and play. Does this then set back feminism and the role of womankind back 50 years? Does it bollocks.
God I was fuming there wasn't i? That's my little rant over. Clearly I'm going to have to go an read this 50 shades of fuck. It has earnt the author millions and become a worldwide phenomenon, written by a woman who has clearly nailed a gap in people's lives. Sales of whips and BDSM items have risen enormously and now, just like dogging and swinging years ago it's become part of mainstream and no longer that shocking.
Maybe they could make it an Olympic sport. If so i reckon I'd be up there with gold medal favourites. #carefulwhatyouwishfor
So day 2 is over. 2 medals. Road race cycling and sado masochistic sex. My 2 favourite hobbies. Roll on day 3!
Day 2 medal count;
Lizzie Armistead - silver - female road race - legendary ride, exciting finish
Rebecca Addlington - bronze - 400m freestyle swim - Not her best event, powerful finish, go for gold in 800m
Thrilling Olympics so far and loving the 16 hour a day coverage
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