
Today,………..Bush paid another visit to the American athletes, watching the women warm up for softball, regretting the disappearance of that sport from the next Olympics
“It’s good for the world to have girls playing softball and these women are going to show young girls how to win” and trying his hand, so to speak, at volleyball.
Pres. Bush declines to slap Misty May-Treanor’s bikinied butt
Bush knuckled off a couple of lobs, but defending gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh gave the chief executive some pointers.
Then after a good play, in the tradition of female volleyballers,
May-Treanor turned, bent over slightly and offered her bikinied rear-end for the 43rd president to slap.
“Mr. President,” she said, “want to?”
Want to has nothing to do with it in public life.
As the son of a president, a husband of nearly 37 years, the father of two daughters, the subject of some attempted tabloid exposes and a seasoned political veteran, who is not a female athlete but knows that every camera for a half-mile is trained on him, Bush wisely chose instead to brush his hand across the small of May-Treanor’s back.

Edited version of Misty May-Treanor extended her back side to the President of the United States:

No. It’s not cute. No. It’s not “all in good fun.”
The President of the United States deserves respect, as does his wife and two daughters.
Female volleyball medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh’s bodies are splattered all over the internet in their barely there bikinis hugging our President today.
Do you suppose they could have grabbed a cover-up before taking a picture with the President of the United States of America?
The shame of it all is that it wouldn’t even occur to them.

Female modesty has suffered a tragic death in popular culture.
Try to find information on female modesty and you will get this:

Is there no happy medium between this horrid misogyny and our carefree denial of the honor due the female body?
Mr. President says: “..these women are going to show young girls how to win”.
They’re apparently going to show young girls how to disrespect themselves, and teach men how to do so as well.
Now before the men start ranting about how American and cool it is to admire human female anatomy (in this case– the back end of it), and before the women start defending how “innocent” and sweet” this all this….

Stop to think: …………….with your Minds, that is.
A bit of background:
The first Olympics are held in ancient Greece. Women are excluded.
Thousands of years later…………………..
The Amateur Sports Act was passed in 1978. It required the United States Olympic Committee and its National Governing Bodies for each sport to operate in a nondiscriminatory manner.


It wasn’t until Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that a federal law prohibited sex discrimination in any educational program or activity at any educational institution.

Meaning: They required that women and men be provided an equitable opportunity to participate in sports.


One of Title IX’s purpose’s was to create the same opportunity and quality of treatment for female athletes as is afforded male athletes.

While participation of women has quadrupled over the last few decades, respect and “quality of treatment” of women has plummeted to an all time low in society.
Cheerleaders, which are nothing but young, “firm” girls and women sexualizing themselves, have always been considered a “publicity service”, and well……..it’s all about ratings.
S-ex appeals to men…and men………..bring up the ratings.
Math anyone?
What is the Amercian dream of an athlete at the Olympics?
Why do we root for them? 
Because we believe that hard work, discipline and self-reliance should be rewarded.
It is one of our cultures central ideologies.


If Sports competitions are truly about talent, self-determination and individuality, why the focus on female anatomy again and again and again?
Could it be the clothing women insist on wearing less of year after year after year?
It’s unnecessary. It’s crude. It’s cheap. And it cheapens the sport and the flag they play under.
Who designs these “uniforms” for women that do nothing less than allow most of their body parts to hang out. And why.
Ratings. For whom..why men of course.
Let’s make sure men never forget that it’s not about the tennis prowess, the basketball skill, the volleyball expertise, the swimming proficiency, the skiing dexterity, the gymnastic competency.
It’s all about “her body”, and how much sexuality she exuuuudes.
Nowhere is this self exploitation more evident than in Hollywood’s many manipulations of what is beautiful and how women should look.
But in Sports?

Women have historically been marginalized or completely excluded from organized sports.
Women were told that they do not possess the appropriate aspects of masculinity, are lacking in physical strength and self-confidence. 
Now that they have broken some barriers, women are told it is all about “empowerment.”
“Female empowerment” within popular culture is a joke.
The eroticized female body is the sole image that is acceptable.
Women’s sports are blatantly using sex appeal to sell their players. Careers of tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Anna Kournikova (can she even play anymore?) are based almost entirely on how sexy they are.And what they “wont be wearing” at the next match.
Being ogled and lusted after. 
Is that the goal of an Olympian athlete these days?
Indeed. Let us consider the ways in which representations of women in sports and individual athletes have evolved over time:
Cheerleaders in the 1950’s:

Women’s basketball:

Women’s baseball:


Target Practice:

Hockey:

Running:

Swimming:

Tennis:

Golf:

Notice how all these activities can be done dressed. Go figure.





Women compromise the honor they were given, as human beings created in the image of God, when they encourage men to view them as sexual objects.
Women now have the “right” to wear, or not wear whatever they want. And apparently, are excercising that one to the max.
What will Misty May-Treanor be remembered for ultimately?
Her athletic ability? Her strength? Her skill? Her medal?
No.
Her butt.
How adorable.

Someday, I suspect, this will come back to haunt her…………. and all women who were cheapened by her actions, and intelligent enough to realize just how much.

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