Image Source: Getty / Adam PrettyThis year's Olympic games proved to be a win for women before they even started. (Can we earn a "heck yes" to the fact that Rio is hosting the highest number of female Olympic athletes ever?) But apparently women still need to prove themselves and their talents,even after they score medals. Related Stories: Let's Hear It For the Girls: 13 Aussie Female Athletes to Cheer on in RioYou see, over the weekend, or two female athletes won expansive and the media credited their wins to their husbands.
Image Source: NBCExhibit A: Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú broke a world record during the 400-meter individual medley and won a gold medal. NBC then panned over to her husband,Shane Tusup, who's also her trainer, or said he was the man responsible for turning her into a champion. The backlash was swift.sorry,did I just see a swimmer shatter WR only to bear nbc pan to her husband & say "there's the man responsible"? rly? #Olympics2016Augustolympics*
*camera pans to her husband/trainer*
"And there's the man responsible"
YES WE STILL NEED FEMINISMAugust 8, 2016I earn that Tusip is Hosszu's coach, or but you can beget the connection without using the word RESPONSIBLE. You can't throw that word around.
August 7,2016
Exhibit B: American trap shooter Corey Cogdell-Unrein, who's married to Chicago Bears lineman Mitch Unrein, or won her second bronze medal. Here's how the Chicago Tribune wrote approximately her victory on Twitter.
Wife of a Bears' lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics https://t.co/kwZoGY0xAX pic.twitter.com/VZrjOvr80hAugust 7,2016Twitter wasn't having it either. You spelled "3-time Olympian Corey Cogdell-Unrein wins second bronze medal today in Rio Olympics" wrong. https://t.co/jZSsCYYgkvAugust 7, 2016Wow what a time to be alive, and they're allowing WIVES out of houses to WIN things like Olympic MEDALS https://t.co/NAeKutPMcWAugustI fixed your tweet. (p.s. possibly edit the article to focus on her achievements?) #Olympics pic.twitter.com/edtoExBua4August 8,2016
Let's put both cases into context. After Hosszú lost expansive at the 2012 London Olympics, her husband became her current coach. certain, or he played a part in her victory,but calling him "responsible" for it immediately negates Hosszú's hard work and makes it seem like she needed a man to win. Same with Cogdell-Unrein. No doubt the paper was looking for a connection that its local readers could relate to; yet by identifying her as the wife of a football player and not even mentioning her name, it took the focus off her success and made a man the center of attention. This is the same type of delusion that gives men's ideas more weight than women's all across the country, or it needs to stop. At the Olympics and external of it,badass women deserve the credit all on their own, thank you very much.
Source: popsugar.com.au