What a Load of Shoot
?? Amy Stokes-Waters
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It's FRIDAY! I'm a FEMINIST! So I'm back with another ? FEMINISM FRIDAY ?
And this week, I want to talk about SHOOTING. More specifically, the Turkish silver medal winning duo at the Paris Olympics.
"Duo?!" I hear you cry! Yes, DUO! Because in case you missed it, there was, in fact, a second person on the Turkish team who helped bring home that silver medal.
I know this may come as a shock, seeing as we've all only seen memes that look like this:
So what's the hype?
Well... the stories would have you believe that Yusuf Dikec rocked up at the Olympics, no special equipment, standing with one hand in his pocket and casually shot his way to silver medal glory.
And what a lovely story that would make. Old guy who's never been to the games makes it, smashes it, bish bash bosh.
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But hold the phone.
You see Yusuf was competing in a team event. And who was his team mate? None other than WOMAN, Sevval Ilayda Tarhan.
She also rocked up with a t-shirt, one hand in pocket, no special equipment. So no difference between them, right? No, I guess not. Unless you want to count the 27 year age difference. So Yusuf has nearly 3 decades on his counterpart, beginning professional shooting in 2001, at around the same time that Sevval was born...
Now, I'm not saying the guy isn't great. He's won plenty of medals in his 23 year career from loads of other competitions but he never got a medal at the Olympics until he was joined by his current partner.
And another thing... When we look at Yusuf and Sevval's stats as individuals.. well Yusuf came 13th in the men's competition and Sevval finished 7th...
So what, Amy? What's the big deal?
This is a perfect example of us man-washing history (wtf is the gender equivalent version of white washing?!)... she's erased from global consciousness because we all want to romanticise some old guy with his hand in his pocket, instead of celebrating an EQUALLY brilliant achievement from his female counterpart.
The irony of Paris 2024 having a stylised woman as its emblem this year is not lost on this writer.
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7 个月Takes me directly back to The Guardian ‘Points of View’ advert. Thank you ?? Amy Stokes-Waters for giving a prospective on this one. Sevval ????????????
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7 个月I love this one. As someone who is here for the memes, I had no idea about his female counterpart, and I'm so glad to have learned about Sevval - HOW has no one been shouting about her? ??