Fourth July
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weaselettI hope people who celebrate 4th July have had a good weekend/are having a good time
It's wimbledon time again and of course we have rain again Heh. Fingers crossed for the Murrays (like mainly Jamie, but Andy is cool too) and the GBR ladies. Also hoping that they show some of the wheelchair games on main channels again......
John Mcenroe has been a dick again, and I am never no frustrated whenever the debates of who is better at sport gender wise...and the fact there is the tendancy for them to always say men are better. Like to be honest, British sports? Most of our women's teams perform SO MUCH BETTER than our men. But almost no one talks about them.
There was a time when the women's team football wise drew bigger crowds, and that was when they got banned. There was also a time when there were mixed gender teams but that doesn't happy now, so it's always an academic argument.
To be completely honest - scottish high school, it was mixed gender sports. That told me that the difference is the person not the gender - then we moved south, and english high school was split, never shall the two face (apart from the one time we made them let us play a girls team against a boys team at basketball. We lost narrowly, but to be honest, all the girls but me were fairly new to basketball and were still trying to play like it was netball.....)
I to this day have no idea how to play either netball or hockey (lots of places in england the sports are divided into girl sports and boy sports - I played mostly what they consider boy sports in scotland, so like basketball, cricket, lots of cross country running..... - when you started at an english school, they did not ask if you knew how to play the sports they were playing, it was assumed, and it was terrifying. Blood is not uncommon.....)
I would have loved to play more tennis, but the school I went to only let the people who represented the school play after first year, so I got to play one month, one summer.....
There are differences in playing style, guys have faster harder serve, for the most part, but women move more, are a bit more flexible....and always have to win in three. Guys get five sets in a lot of the championships, which means a lot of the high seeded guys can lose two sets, but still win in the end.
I do wonder, if in a different world, more women would have harder, faster serves. I mean you watch them serve and it's all controlled, aim, versus the guys it's less so, and all about hitting, hopefully to the intended place. Guys win with more aces than most women. Style differences.
It's a shame that everytime men moan about women in tennis 'asking for more' or comment about how they don't compare to the guys - they very very rarely offer a chance for the point to be fully proven/disproven (aka a mixed championship, not just the odd one off game).
There's a lot of disturbing news around - the latest UK news, is about girls and body image again, and it's so close to FGM that it's all the more disturbing, and I have no idea what it says that between my age group and teenagers today this has become a thing. (And, surprise, the person defending it, and saying it helps girls self confidence, is a male plastic surgeon....)
Messed up.
Urgh.
On less meh front - the funny thing, after watching wonder woman, was the friend I went to see it with, didn't think Diana's armour could be practical in real life. Which actually, nope, it's practical. And I get to be a 'ancient history' geek (Ancient Warfare at Uni, heh, the fire pan helmet roman will never fade from my memory, crazy dude).
It's entirely based around the shield mind - because generally armour style was influenced by the shape of your shield, and the way that you tended to fight. Like the Roman turtle almost everyone knows.
Mid arm and mid leg armour was never really a thing, partly because it can impair movement, and partly because if you were using your shield right, you didn't need it.
Diana's armour is pretty much hoplite armour, without the stupid helmet. So yup practical and realistic. The lack of helmet, to be honest, isn't much of a downside, as it didn't really protect much (these were people who fought with a spear and a sword. A thrown spear that clips your helmet, helmet will mostly protect from injury, spear hits? Your helmet kills you....) and gave limited sight lines.
So yeah - that was the one major downside of the film my friend had - and actually it was because of modern POV on armour needing to be full body....
It's wimbledon time again and of course we have rain again Heh. Fingers crossed for the Murrays (like mainly Jamie, but Andy is cool too) and the GBR ladies. Also hoping that they show some of the wheelchair games on main channels again......
John Mcenroe has been a dick again, and I am never no frustrated whenever the debates of who is better at sport gender wise...and the fact there is the tendancy for them to always say men are better. Like to be honest, British sports? Most of our women's teams perform SO MUCH BETTER than our men. But almost no one talks about them.
There was a time when the women's team football wise drew bigger crowds, and that was when they got banned. There was also a time when there were mixed gender teams but that doesn't happy now, so it's always an academic argument.
To be completely honest - scottish high school, it was mixed gender sports. That told me that the difference is the person not the gender - then we moved south, and english high school was split, never shall the two face (apart from the one time we made them let us play a girls team against a boys team at basketball. We lost narrowly, but to be honest, all the girls but me were fairly new to basketball and were still trying to play like it was netball.....)
I to this day have no idea how to play either netball or hockey (lots of places in england the sports are divided into girl sports and boy sports - I played mostly what they consider boy sports in scotland, so like basketball, cricket, lots of cross country running..... - when you started at an english school, they did not ask if you knew how to play the sports they were playing, it was assumed, and it was terrifying. Blood is not uncommon.....)
I would have loved to play more tennis, but the school I went to only let the people who represented the school play after first year, so I got to play one month, one summer.....
There are differences in playing style, guys have faster harder serve, for the most part, but women move more, are a bit more flexible....and always have to win in three. Guys get five sets in a lot of the championships, which means a lot of the high seeded guys can lose two sets, but still win in the end.
I do wonder, if in a different world, more women would have harder, faster serves. I mean you watch them serve and it's all controlled, aim, versus the guys it's less so, and all about hitting, hopefully to the intended place. Guys win with more aces than most women. Style differences.
It's a shame that everytime men moan about women in tennis 'asking for more' or comment about how they don't compare to the guys - they very very rarely offer a chance for the point to be fully proven/disproven (aka a mixed championship, not just the odd one off game).
There's a lot of disturbing news around - the latest UK news, is about girls and body image again, and it's so close to FGM that it's all the more disturbing, and I have no idea what it says that between my age group and teenagers today this has become a thing. (And, surprise, the person defending it, and saying it helps girls self confidence, is a male plastic surgeon....)
Messed up.
Urgh.
On less meh front - the funny thing, after watching wonder woman, was the friend I went to see it with, didn't think Diana's armour could be practical in real life. Which actually, nope, it's practical. And I get to be a 'ancient history' geek (Ancient Warfare at Uni, heh, the fire pan helmet roman will never fade from my memory, crazy dude).
It's entirely based around the shield mind - because generally armour style was influenced by the shape of your shield, and the way that you tended to fight. Like the Roman turtle almost everyone knows.
Mid arm and mid leg armour was never really a thing, partly because it can impair movement, and partly because if you were using your shield right, you didn't need it.
Diana's armour is pretty much hoplite armour, without the stupid helmet. So yup practical and realistic. The lack of helmet, to be honest, isn't much of a downside, as it didn't really protect much (these were people who fought with a spear and a sword. A thrown spear that clips your helmet, helmet will mostly protect from injury, spear hits? Your helmet kills you....) and gave limited sight lines.
So yeah - that was the one major downside of the film my friend had - and actually it was because of modern POV on armour needing to be full body....
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Date: 2017-07-08 01:24 pm (UTC)