Status Updates From Black tights: Women, sport ...

Brotherly love.

Justine Blainey, hero.

"She was refused registration because she was a girl. Her case seems to me therefore to be on exactly the same footing under the section as the case of a boy denied registration by ORSA because he is black."

It is an incredibly powerful statement when women take to the streets in their running shoes...No one tries to hide her wrinkles or fix her hair.

As recently as 1967, women were barred from running in the Boston Marathon.

[W]omen who run are engaging in a public act of freedom.

People are meant to move...It's sad that kids are being sold inactive lifestyles -- Nintendo, TV, sitting in school all day.

When daughters jump into the world, they are metaphorically turning their backs on everything their mothers represent. Ans the mother who watches her daughter waltz off with only vague thoughts of marriage & children can't help thinking, "Are you telling me that my life of sacrifice & devotion was not living at all?"

"negative liberty"...gives people freedom not to be interfered with

Athletes are on public display...[E]ven when they are not competing, athletes are treated as little more than a means to an end. They are sexualized objects whose main use is to sell track shoes or expensive tennis rackets.

The athletic woman is an autonomous woman because of her physical capability...She is a dangerous agent.

So how do we combine sport & culture in a way that gives people the opportunity to become good athletes & better thinkers who will apply a little critical analysis to the vast amounts of information that threaten to overwhelm everyone these days?

[Isn't] sport about being a real human, not a constructed one?

"When we went to the Mexico Olympics in 1968, we had to prove we were women in order to compete."

Sport & the military have been & continue to be...inextricably linked...For those of us who remember the Cold War, we also remember an Olympics where comparing medal counts between the United States & the Soviet Union was everything.

[#Sport] is about being free & independent in your body and spirit, about challenging yourself & your competitors to see just how fast & strong you can be.