On 7/30/12 2:14 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
Did you hear any stories about how Patrick Mills left
the NBA early in
order to spend more time training with the national team in order to
try to get gold? No. Of course not. The men are not expected to win
gold. They don't want to hold early training camps. No one expects
them to win even medal. The Australian question should be: Why are we
even bothering to send the men? They should sit home. The
Australian media largely does not care about them.
<sarcasm>Of course they have to send the men! They're the ones that
really count. And why aren't the women wearing skirts like they're
supposed to!</sarcasm>
The bigger Australian gender stories are actually
Michelle Jenneke's
butt jiggle, (which ironically, the USA paid more attention to then
Australia) and Leisel Jones fat story, which was a very deliberate
story on the part of the Australian media. Media watch shows how this
story was crafted:
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3556770.htm/
Reminds me of the U.S. obsession with the appearance of female
politicians, e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michelle_Obam…
That said, Wikipedia's main page has generally
been dominated by
female Olympians instead of male Olympians on Did You Know. If you
want to submit for DYK about women, I highly urge you to. It is one
of the best ways to highlight topics that might otherwise get
overlooked because of systematic bias.
Thanks for the tip. I did a couple of female athlete articles recently,
but forgot to DYK them :(
Ryan Kaldari