Wednesday, August 14, 2024

The Olympics of insanity


 So the Olympic games have given us so many bizarre and unprecedented news stories from the city of Paris. There was the whole opening ceremony, blatantly celebrating sexual perversion while posing in a mock scene of the Lord's Supper, thereby mocking Christ and Christians the world over. And they called it being inclusive. 

We saw a woman from Australia, who competed alongside the best athletes in the "sport" of breakdancing. She spun a few slow circles, posed awkwardly, and hopped around like a bunny on Skittles, but nothing she did resembled the breakdancing of the other contestants. Many people were confused. Perhaps she was inventing a new, slower, kinder on the joints and head breakdancing. The Aussie version of breakdancing. Sadly, she came away with zero points. But hey, as a "professor" and PHD of breakdancing, (did not know that was a thing) I hope her students will give her a purple ribbon for participation. I don't know if she was the cause or the excuse, but the Olympic committee announced that breakdancing will no longer be an Olympic sport. Sad.

Women's boxing was reimagined when they gave the gold medals to men pretending to be women. What a day to be alive and male! You can now be a below average athlete who comes in last in every boy's high school sport and still manage to be an Olympic champion. Just shove your way into the girls locker room and demand the right to live "your" truth out while beating down and taking away the records and medals of generations of girls and women who have fought hard and persevered to be the best in women's sports.

I've never been to Paris, and probably will never get a chance to go. It looks like a beautiful city. At least the parts we were allowed access to. Probably like Hollywood's version of Los Angeles. The city appears much safer and cleaner on TV than in person. 

Even so, I learned a few things watching bits and pieces of the 2024 Olympics:

Better take a raincoat

Simone Biles is amazing

Spinning on your head isn't actually a sport but a spectacle best left on the sidewalks of the Bronx or thrown into a street scene of a movie

Women's sports will end if there aren't firm rules put in place very very soon

No matter how fast they are, men have a hard time passing a baton 

Don't swim in the Seine even if the Mayor of Paris says it's perfectly safe


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Barbara