women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of the human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.
you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."
why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?
i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.
that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity. it is a form of entertainment where all female roles are agentive and active rather than passive.
women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!
y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because it is exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.
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what do you say baby?? I was running in the park today and only you were on my mind~ your curvy, soft body is driving me crazy~ I would like to cuddle up to you and caress you all day long~ I would bake you cakes and praise you for the pounds you have gained~ just imagine, how would you round up for a month of sweet life with me?) would you like me?)
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Wilma Rudolph Begins Her Run
On June 23, 1940, track icon Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. Rudolph overcame polio and became the fastest woman in the world. In 1960, she won three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.Jun 8, 2023
Happy heavenly birthday 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉
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Ukrainian athlete and medical student Valentyna Kovpan practicing with her mentor, early 1970s
Valentyna Kovpan took silver in archery at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
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The last Animalympics themed commission I have so far - Bolt Jenkins goes for the gold!
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iconic 1968 Summer Olympics moment with Tommie Smith (1st), Peter Norman (2nd), and John Carlos (3rd)
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