Wouldn't have figured you for a Katy Perry/Big Star fan.
Since I don't get the reference, it looks like you were right.
To do the dishes, to clean up my room . . .
(Another of their "retired" songs, I think.)
There was an article floating around that irritated me about how what made the women so awesome was that they were fearless about wanting and how women aren't supposed to be shown in a state of want.
It just seemed like a dumb thing to say about professional athletes.
Yeah, dumb. But now that I've read it, this encapsulates my frustration with the German team: in their games against both France and the US, they played as if they really didn't want it all that much. Not that they seemed concerned with their appearance, or whatever it is that the author thinks is the default state of women busy doing athletic stuff, but that they didn't seem to get that you have to try to kick the ball into the goal. (Like, 'we're the number on team, the ball is obviously going to go into the goal all by itself')
Here's a NYT piece about female tennis players worrying about looking too strong.
"It's our decision to keep her as the smallest player in the top 10," said Tomasz Wiktorowski, the coach of Agnieszka Radwanska, who is listed at 5 feet 8 and 123 pounds. "Because, first of all she's a woman, and she wants to be a woman."
That article was incredible and depressing. You know what's beautiful? A crosscourt forehand winner.
I hadn't realized before this week that the last "Serena slam" was 12 years ago! That's really unbelievable to be that on top of the game at both 21 and 33.
I have to believe that the weird attitudes in that article can't be how the athletes really feel. They must think they're required to sound like that or they wouldn't get endorsements.
It sounds totally insane and unlike a competitive woman. It also sounds out of touch with regular old conventional sexiness, which isn't particularly harsh on muscles until you look like you're on major steroids.