WaPo sports columnist on Ryan Lochte
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/ryan-lochte-a-champion-swimmer-caught-in-a-riptide-of-self-absorption/2016/08/18/673d9bdc-6540-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.htmlThere is a special category of obnoxious American bro that Lochte represents, in his T-shirt and jeans and expensive suede footwear, which he showed off on social media that night at the party along with the price tag. Were 6k deep here, he captioned it. Is there anything worse, in any country, than a bunch of entitled young drunks who break the furniture and pee on a wall? There is no translator needed for that one, no cultural norm that excuses it. If I had been working at that Brazilian gas station, I might have pulled a gun on them, too.
. . . Equal to his disrespect of the gas station owner and the police is Lochtes disrespect to his fellow swimmers. First he portrayed his U.S. teammates as dropping to the ground while I refused, as if he alone had the temerity to remain standing. Yeah, right. This is a guy who apparently lied to his own mother. Then he flew home, leaving the younger swimmers to deal with the fallout. And when back in the United States, he made moronic postings on social media, deaf to the tension they were undergoing while detained in Rio, their passports seized.
. . .
Lochtes done as a public figure, of course. Which is probably the most effective form of justice for someone who apparently so craves attention. Oblivion is what he deserves.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)he will resume that career. He certainly fits the bill for that genre.
Skittles
(153,428 posts)this gal actually nails what people REALLY think of this nitwit - yes, WHITE GUYS TOO
Tarheel_Dem
(31,260 posts)world class asshole.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)old harry
(9 posts)After all, they're both self-aggrandizing douchebags.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)It takes a feminist to call out bro culture.
I had to read some of her other articles. Damn, she's good!
Let's Discuss Women Olympians in Athletic Terms, Not Feminine Pejoratives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/lets-discuss-women-olympians-in-athletic-terms-not-feminine-pejoratives/2016/08/11/41f9ad12-5fb8-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html?tid=a_inl
MBS
(9,688 posts)Her columns so often transcend the immediate subject to get at broader truths.
I find her pieces interesting even when she writes about sports or sports figures that I don't know about or don't normally care about.
The only other sports columnist I knew like that was the LA Times sports writer Jim Murray. (He died decades ago, alas.)
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thanks for this find!!
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