Olympic Committee Screws Women and Softball

The International Olympic Committee has made its decision in the choice of adding two events to the 2016 Summer Games, and it’s gotten my lesbian and feminist dander way up. The committee said it was a challenging choice of baseball against softball, golf against roller sports, squash vs. karate vs. rugby.

I say it was a more simple decision: Women vs. men, and guess who won?

Men…and golf and rugby.

I can understand why a game like rugby would be considered, but rumor had it that golf was the heavy favorite. Please…golf? What that tells me is that with stars like Tiger Woods considering a spot on the team, the IOC has forgotten the real reason the Olympics are played, and is just trying to get air time by star-fucking.

They also seem to do a really good job of keeping in the men’s sports. Softball didn’t have a chance in hell. A nice way of putting it would be to call it discrimination, but if you really want to tell it like it is, it’s misogynistic, and it’s very easy to see why. Out of 107 members, only 16 are women. It has 20 permanent commissions, with only one chair being held by a woman. Want to guess which one? The Commission on Women and Sport. Gee, thanks for being so generous.

Another fine sexist example is the decision to not let women ski jumpers compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Their reasoning is that there still is too small a pool of athletes and countries and the competitive level is too low.

Bullshit…

There were 36 jumpers from 13 countries in the women’s event at the Nordic World Championships, and just 15 sleds from 11 nations when women’s bobsled made its Olympic debut at Salt Lake City in 2002.

But wait…maybe there’s hope after all…or maybe the 16 IOC women have just been working very hard. They threw us a bone and decided that women’s boxing will be seen in London for 2012. That will be for the first time since a demonstration event at the St Louis Games in 1904…wow…it only took 105 years.