goodbye

i'm losing my shiz, guys. the olympics are ending and i'm so heartbroke and exhausted! ugh. oooof.

here's some sporty fashion for you. while you mourn.

{richard chai love resort 2013, photos courtesy of richard chai love by way of style.com}

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oh i do love the olympics. so so much. and it gives me a million feelings of joyful joy and is like having a house full of puppies to cuddle with.

buuuut. it isn't perfect. (like. my pvr told me it was recording synchro yesterday, but there was NO SYNCHRO TO BE FOUND!!!) femenisting has done a good job on keeping up with the sexist-er side of the olympics. here's a good piece that links to lotsa other good pieces.

* what's the right way to be a female olympic athlete?

and also, remember when the olympics broke my heart yesterday when they interviewed meaghan benfito after the 10 meter final. ooooohhhhh sooooooo ssssaaaaaaaad! uuuggggggh.

okay. back to watching now. happy friday! try not to have too many feelings between now and sunday.

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saved my life

the olympics. that is all. get off the internet! unless you are watching sport!!!!

{the bestest best part of the opening ceremonies, photo from time magazine}

HAPPY OLYMPICS!!!

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olympics edition!!! holy cow olympics.

okay. so. there's this documentary that aired about female weightlifter zoe smith and her teammates hannah powell and helen jewel. and some people on twitter were ass-hats about it and were all about how they weren't very feminine or they were probably lesbians or that they should go back to the kitchen.

and zoe smith wrote this super great thing on her blog about it and i smiled lots.

yay i love it!!! haha! that's part of why i love the olympics so much. physical achievement, guys! what can these bodies of ours do if we work hard enough? AMAZING THINGS!!! and it isn't about looking seeexxxxyyyy (although, damn all that muscle definition sure doesn't hurt on the eyes). it is about strength and skill and overcoming mental hurdles and physical hurdles and yay yay yay!!! i love it. i love it i love it. so excited i might explode.

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oh rage buckets!

i was just writing on a friend's facebook about rage buckets... he posted this ol' infographic i believe i linked to a while back (or maybe just tweeted?). and i was all 'come on over to the blog where i help top up your rage buckets weekly with articles and infographics!' but also too there is the good news. sometimes. on feminist friday. and this week! IS GOOD NEWS WEEK!!! woooooo!

there is this, first, which is great:



* and here is zerlina at feministing using a few more words to say that it is great.

and also...

* this great olympic news, guys, cause the OLYMPICS ARE COMING!!!

it may not be perfection, but it is something, right?! and we must celebrate our somethings when we get them! so party it up this canada-day long weekend (you can party elsewhere too, as long as it is red and white themed..) and enjoy yourself because this is a goooood week here at the irishdiet!

{canada's emilie haymans and jennifer abel, photo borrowed from here}
 

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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the warm up

who else is getting SO EXCITED FOR THE OLYMPICS?!

{team u.s. diver thomas finchum from this great series}

i keep having dreams about divers and diving... i. can't. wait. let's get to know team canada, yeah?!

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haha! instilling in young men a sense of respect for women and girls = don't let them engage with girls, cause eeeeeewwwwwwww, real world what?!

* 2nd base will be a cooties fest!!!

these guys are sure to be well balanced and respectful when they realize that women might maybe want to be at the same jobs as them, in the same universities as them, etc. etc. right?! hoooray! another win for the religiously small minded!!! (or to quote my brilliant roomie on facebook today, re: another woman-targeted tragedy... 'something something postfeministworld AMIRITE GUYS?')

that's all for today folks. i have a europe vacation to plan and a slutwalk to attend. happy weekend!

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(sorry this didn't post this yesterday. i drove out to collingwood to watch an awesome feminist film which i'll tell you all about later!!!)

with heavy sighing, i take back a goodly portion of my 'yaying' last week over the olympics. i do love them. i do. i love the bringing together of peoples and cultures. but that bringing together also tends to point out some of the great problems we have on this earth. for example, saudi arabia.

{jeré longman}

* put pleats on or else the ladies boxing might not be ladylike enough.

there's a lot in this piece that made my blood boil. like that saudi arabia is 'irked' by the attention it is getting for its women-athelete-isues. yeah. i'm irked too. so irked i want to go scream until i have no more voice left. until i'm retching and spitting and choking. so irksome. 

remember when we all shook out heads while watching 'a league of their own' when the women were made to wear such absurd little skirts to play their sport? and they were upset and horrified by it? remember when we thought 'that was a bad time for women... ooof! thank god we are not living such repressed lives now. thank god!'

i remember that.

i guess i should be glad that the women's volleyballers don't HAVE to wear bikinis anymore. and i guess i am. but it isn't enough. not nearly. none of it is enough. not for 2012. not even close.

not when this sport

has to looks like this so that women can play it in this liberal, freedom-screaming part of the world...

and everything else.

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YAY I LOVE THE OLYMPICS YAY!!!!!

*somali women running like wow!

isn't it great when there is great news?! IT IS GREAT! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE OLYMPICS!!!

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