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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it just me, or is anyone else feel kind of weird watching women's gymnastics?
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I solve this problem by not watching women's gymnastics. Or men's gymnastics, or "ice dancing" or diving or pretty much any competition in which the winner is determined by an international panel of judges on the aesthetic merit of the performance. The only things fit to be determined by an international panel of judges are death penalties for captured Nazis.
Women's gymnastics is an enterprise of especially dubious morality because, like ballet, it involves making decisions about the best years of a young person's life when they are not mature enough to understand the repercussions. I'm not sure why boys are encouraged to diversify their sports activities until competitive high school coaches require them to specialize, but prepubescent girls are expected to work out for four hours a day, delaying growth and onset of menstruation. WTF? You're expected to sacrifice your body for ten years for the glory of the motherland.
