Super bummed the Olympics are coming to a close\u2026<\/p>\n
But ya know what should’ve come to a close way sooner?!?<\/p>\n
All the nonsensical chatter by the male announcers when one of them-there l’il lady athletes was trying to win a medal after…gasp<\/em>…having a baby!<\/p>\n That was the big topic of convo during Nicola Spirig Hug’s triathlon race. It was a long race, so lots of male t.v. announcer yakity yak yak.\u00a0 Imagine the nerve: her trying to win a medal, after having a baby, after having already won a medal.\u00a0 Sounds like that feat has been accomplished by very few women in Olympic history.<\/p>\n Weird that. But really, chick is an Olympic gold medal winner who then made it to another Olympic games.\u00a0 Howz about we focus on that for a quick sec instead of making women like her sound like freakshows.<\/p>\n Also? I didn\u2019t hear anyone talking about Michael Phelps in the \u00a0context of his parenthood.\u00a0 Or that diver dude who won bronze with his toddler up in the stands.\u00a0 Or that Marathoner Meb and his three daughters.<\/p>\n I may be over-the-top with this, but my thinking here is that guys talking about female Olympic\u00a0athletes in the context of their motherhood is demeaning in lots of ways. So let\u2019s knock that off ay-sap.<\/p>\n Ok, deep breath. Enough about male t.v. announcers.\u00a0 Back to Nicola.\u00a0 All’s well that ends well and she seemed pretty happy with her silver despite all the fellers who thought she should’ve felt otherwise.<\/p>\n An Olympic athlete? Gold medal winner??! Who then won a silver medal? Who’s also a MOTHER!??!<\/p>\n Rock on wit\u2019 yer bad self, Girlfriend.<\/p>\n What really puzzles me though is how no one is making any sort of hoo-rah about Gwen Jorgensen being an ACCOUNTANT for heavens-to-Betsy!<\/p>\n Talk about nutso. Gals doing MATH?!\u00a0 For a LIVING<\/em>??!<\/p>\n Weird that. How was that allowed to slip through the system?!<\/p>\n But in my humble opinion, her whole gold medal winning backstory is even weirder.<\/p>\n Totes far-fetched if\u2019n you ask me.<\/p>\n There she was. Sitting in a cubicle, doing math-y type activities when the USA Triathlon calls?!<\/p>\n Uh, hello, is Gwen Jorgensen there? Oh, this IS Gwen? Hiya.\u00a0 How\u2019s the math goin\u2019??\u00a0 Listen, this is USA Triathlon calling.\u00a0 We want to sign you up for some triathlons and possibly a gold medal at some Olympics in the future.\u00a0 You in?\u00a0 You are??!\u00a0 In which case, can we have your social security number.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I mean, are women actually sitting in cubicles doing math for a living?<\/p>\n And are phone calls from USA Triathlon actually happening??<\/p>\n Because if so, you know what the.\u00a0 Weirdest.\u00a0 Thing of all is?? That USA Triathlon hasn\u2019t called me yet.\u00a0 Not that I do math for a living or anything.\u00a0 So that must be the reason I haven\u2019t gotten my call.\u00a0 Yep, definitely the reason.\u00a0 I\u2019m also the mother of two.\u00a0 So there\u2019s that as well.\u00a0 Oh, and I don’t do triathlons.\u00a0 But pay that no never mind.<\/p>\n Bye, Olympics!\u00a0 It’s been fun.\u00a0 Sorry to see you go!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super bummed the Olympics are coming to a close\u2026 But ya know what should’ve come to a close way sooner?!? All the nonsensical chatter by the male announcers when one of them-there l’il lady athletes was trying to win a medal after…gasp…having a baby! That was the big topic of convo during Nicola Spirig Hug’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}