Flagrant Virtue-Signaling of the Year: CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services Yiannis Exarchos

I’m sure glad I ignore the Olympics as the corrupt, greed-infested fiasco it had been for decades, because if I gave a rip, the Paris Olympics would have my head exploding more frequently than Old Faithful blows. The whole enterprise appears to be run by silly, incompetent, unethical bureaucrats and con artists.

Here’s a particularly nauseating example: the CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) Yiannis Exarchos decided to burnish his woke creds by telling reporters in Paris that his organization updated its guidelines for camera operators, most of whom are men, to inveigh against “sexist” portrayals of female athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics. “Unfortunately, in some events they are still being filmed in a way that you can identify that stereotypes and sexism remains, even from the way in which some camera operators are framing differently men and women athletes,” Exarchos said, making no sense at all. “Women athletes are not there because they are more attractive or sexy or whatever. They are there because they are elite athletes.” Exarchos said that the problem primarily stems from “unconscious bias,” which leads to camera operators and TV editors favoring more close-up shots of women than of men.

Oh, shut the HELL up! TV editors favor more close-up shots of women than men because women are more attractive than men, the demographics of Olympic viewing for many events slants male, and there is nothing offensive or disrespectful about showing Olympic athletes like this German sprinter,

or this British pole vaulter,

or this Australian basketball player,

in all their athletic pulchritude, especially since they and many other female Olympic competitors have not been the least bit reluctant to exploit their appearance to win fans, endorsements and wolf whistles.

Moreover, how exactly is a camera operator supposed to film women who look like these (and the Italian sprinter under the headline above) without setting off sexual vibes? Are cameramen supposed to make them look unattractive? Is that even possible? Isn’t the Olympics entertainment, and aren’t visually attractive participants more appealing, and hence more entertaining, than the other kind?

Somebody give this guy a plaque or a badge or something proclaiming him officially woke, make him an honorary Kamala Harris booster, and then keep him in a box until the end of the Olympics. That pure virtue-signaling nonsense like his announcement is greeted with anything but guffaws and mockery is one more symptom of the destruction to brains and common sense being inflicted by the worldwide, destructive pandemic from the U.S., The Great Stupid.

11 thoughts on “Flagrant Virtue-Signaling of the Year: CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services Yiannis Exarchos

  1. I would love it if one of the cameramen just filmed the grass during a women’s event…or panned the camera so that only the shoes of the runners were visible. When fired, he should use the press release above in his wrongful termination suit.

  2. If only there were plus-sized women sprinters and pole vaulters! Then THEY could be shown while scantily clad (one of my favorite adjectives) and the seal claps would be deafening. Maybe they should be showing more women weightlifters!

  3. Can the IOC define a woman? Today, an Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test last year, pummelled her Italian opponent in 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics, where the Italian boxer forfeited after suffering a possible broken nose.

    jvb

    • Why are they using gender tests? Those are completely subjective. I thought the actual boxing authorities use sex instead.

  4. Men and women, at the Olympics are at the top of their sport, which in the majority of cases includes physical fitness. Of course 99% of them are going to be sexually attractive. Maybe they should just broadcast a spreadsheet with the results updated in real time?

  5. I recommend the IOC use those cartoon faces/bodies from the Nintendo Wii. They all kind of look the same with the exact same bodies, but have different color skins and glasses and stuff.

    That’s kind of painting the world like goose sh…well, you know…but hey…

  6. We could always just either require all male athletes to pose for “beefcake” photos — or require both female AND male athletes to only be photographed in burkas. . . .

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