Tag: stereotypes

  • Olympic Women – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!

    When I first saw the American swimmers video of Call Me Maybe I had to laugh at my first thought – They are such girls!!  Wait!!  I am saying that about Olympic swimmers?!!  I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s when we questioned the true gender of the Eastern European swimmers.  The conspiracy – were they women who were shot so full of hormones that they are now men OR were they men who were made into “women”?  In either case, it showed how we thought back then – that women have to be turned into men in order to rise to the top. (more…)