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We, the undersigned, call for immediate accountability and transparency in the recent actions of Rachel Gunn and Anna Mears in the selection process for Australia's female breakdancer representative at the upcoming Olympics.Rachel Gunn, who set up her own ...
Even ignoring the collusion accusations in the petition, is it really that surprising that modern day Australia picked someone who wrote a PhD thesis entitled "Deterritorializing gender in Sydney's breakdancing scene" and was lead author on a paper in which "We discuss the ways popular music studies, and then dance studies, has engaged with the theme of protest."?
This was 100% a political pick.
the talk about the collusion/manipulation was already brewing even before she went on. the skill gap between random kids on youtube and "olympic medalists" is so big that it was clear multiple countries didn't even make basic efforts to let it be known that break dancing would be at the olympics. multiple countries held no sort of national qualifiers, or if they did, they intentionally didn't publicize it so they could guarantee certain people would be accepted.
and that's why you get ass-clowns like this trying to pass off "feminist body-politick embodiment interpretive kangaroo dancing" as olympic tier break dancing.
if there was an actual qualifier, there's no way she would have made it. probably 90% of the contestants there wouldn't have made it.
She made it all up she set the whole thing together to get her a trip to Paris.
Some PhD theses are things like "neutron flux in muon-induction cold fusion" or "conductivity of uranium salts under 100 kelvin"
Some other is "Deterritorializing gender in Sydney's breakdancing scene"
Both are called science though.
And both will call themselves Dr. X and the second camp will call themselves a PhD loudly with the "in what" being left unsaid.