This has been one of the weirdest, most jarring parts of the Olympics, for me - the Australian broadcaster's profiling and general... Promotion, of Gu, sometimes at the expense of Australian athletes in the same event, or at least competing at the same time...
They show Gu's events over and over, while neglecting the Aussies competing in other events at the same time, and then go on and on, endlessly, about how she is "the face of the Games" and "It's Eileen Gu's world, and we're all just living in it", etc, etc, to the point of almost inducing vomit...
They even focus on interviewing her, at the expense of Australian athletes in the same event. They have also done that with a couple of other Americans, and one other Chinese...
It's twee, it's weird, it's jarring, it is blatant, bald-faced propaganda, and, as an actual Aussie, I fucking hate it...
Not sure if it is the same on NBC in the US, but seeing as she is actually American, I can only imagine...
For posterity's sake. I don't think we really need to worry about "bias", here. The site seems pretty damn obscure, and the author suitably based. But there you have it, in case you wan' it.
Genuinely good shit, and I no longer feel the need to... Qualify my thoughts, I suppose, about Gu, because the author sums them up better than I could, lol...
There won't be a China if they don't learn to identify a feminist plant.
That's one country I'm okay with taking the hit.
It's also the one where the damage is inevitable. The decades of one-child-policy have given women outsized social capital, where tens of millions of "spare" men are competing for their attentions and affections.
I mean, people generally don't reach the level of success required to do any of what she has, let alone all of it, without very rich parents, with access to, uhh, let's say "political capital"...
What the hell was her mum doing in America, in the first place, anyway?? Spying?? And if she was so keen on "American enterprise" and "bringing her daughter up American", why essentially buy her Chinese citizenship..??
Something doesn't add up, here. Like Soviet sleeper agents (at least in fiction)... The whole thing is very, very weird. Especially for someone "raised by a single, (first generation!!) immigrant mother"...
This has been one of the weirdest, most jarring parts of the Olympics, for me - the Australian broadcaster's profiling and general... Promotion, of Gu, sometimes at the expense of Australian athletes in the same event, or at least competing at the same time...
They show Gu's events over and over, while neglecting the Aussies competing in other events at the same time, and then go on and on, endlessly, about how she is "the face of the Games" and "It's Eileen Gu's world, and we're all just living in it", etc, etc, to the point of almost inducing vomit...
They even focus on interviewing her, at the expense of Australian athletes in the same event. They have also done that with a couple of other Americans, and one other Chinese...
It's twee, it's weird, it's jarring, it is blatant, bald-faced propaganda, and, as an actual Aussie, I fucking hate it...
Not sure if it is the same on NBC in the US, but seeing as she is actually American, I can only imagine...
Archive (amusingly, someone beat me to it): https://archive.is/hAtTi
For posterity's sake. I don't think we really need to worry about "bias", here. The site seems pretty damn obscure, and the author suitably based. But there you have it, in case you wan' it.
Genuinely good shit, and I no longer feel the need to... Qualify my thoughts, I suppose, about Gu, because the author sums them up better than I could, lol...
Academic or no, this is on point, let's just say.
China needs MORE feminism. Best way to start infighting and kill off a communist dictatorship.
Collapse now! Smash the commies!
That's one country I'm okay with taking the hit.
It's also the one where the damage is inevitable. The decades of one-child-policy have given women outsized social capital, where tens of millions of "spare" men are competing for their attentions and affections.
You don't understand. A feminist 'takeover' of China is impossible.
We're talking complete societal breakdown, regression to the bronze age, mass starvation, not a continuance of the paper dragon of regional power.
I mean, people generally don't reach the level of success required to do any of what she has, let alone all of it, without very rich parents, with access to, uhh, let's say "political capital"...
What the hell was her mum doing in America, in the first place, anyway?? Spying?? And if she was so keen on "American enterprise" and "bringing her daughter up American", why essentially buy her Chinese citizenship..??
Something doesn't add up, here. Like Soviet sleeper agents (at least in fiction)... The whole thing is very, very weird. Especially for someone "raised by a single, (first generation!!) immigrant mother"...