Nearly a week after the rest of the world said goodbye to the Torino games, I just finished watching the closing ceremony. And, sadly, it occasions another edition of the Biased Media Watch.
The ceremony was lovely and appropriate.
Until the end.
I don't understand what Ricky Martin was doing there. Avril Lavigne is Canadian, Andrea Bocelli is Italian, but Ricky Martin . . . ? Whatever. Odd but not offensive.
His backup dancers dressed like very cheap biker babe whores? Unacceptable.
Here's a lovely, formal-but-fun ceremony celebrating, oh, world peace, collaboration, and athletic achievement. Sport. And then . . . it gets all nasty and women are back to being eye candy sex symbols again. Back to reality, folks.
And . . . I couldn't find a single news article that mentioned it.
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1 comment:
I'm glad you wrote about the whole deal with Ricky Martin and the scantily-clad dancers. I had completely forgotten about it (I have about 0 short term memory these days). I ended up fast-forwarding through the end of the closing ceremony, but I remember thinking WTF when Ricky and crew came on. Geez now we need sexxeee women to sell the Olymics, too? Sad.
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