It was really brushed by the two days of winter Olympic games.
When it comes to the Winter Olympics, the frog princess Gu Ailing is a topic that cannot be bypassed, and she can be said to be the first top stream under the Winter Olympics.
This talented girl, who can be called the "ultimate version of the child next door", has been widely concerned since she turned Chinese at the age of 15.
In the words of netizens, the red name is everywhere.
Although she has been really winning various competitions for China in the past 3 years, there is indeed a lot of controversy about her on the Internet.
She was loved by many people, but some people pointed out whether she was overheated, and some even questioned her true purpose of returning home.
However, what netizens said is that a little sister quite agrees, that is, in our time, the emergence of such an "idol" is a good phenomenon.
Women's athletic status
Sincerity is hard-won
Don't look at the fact that now we can enjoy the heroic posture of female athletes in various competitions and reports every day.
But in the long course of human history, women have really been able to participate in sports for only 100 years.
Further ahead, women, not to mention participating in sporting events, can even watch the games be considered illegal and punishable by capital punishment.
△ Collection of the Olympic flame.
From 776 BC to 393 AD, the ancient Olympic Games, the predecessor of the modern Olympic Games, lasted 293 times and lasted for 1168 years, and women could not participate in the Olympic Games, and even married women could not watch the games for more than 1,000 years.
Similarly, most of the time in ancient China, society also required women to live in simplicity, and engaging in sports would suffer from different eyes.
Even in 1896, when the first Modern Olympic Games began, women still could not participate as athletes. Although the "father of the Olympics" Coubertin launched the modern Olympic Games, he still insisted that the Olympic arena was a "forbidden area" for women.
He even argues that "a woman's glory comes from the quantity and quality of her children." In sports, their greatest contribution should be to encourage their sons to create good results, not to break records themselves."
Although female athletes began with the 2nd Olympic Games in 1900, it was not until 1924 that female athletes' participation in the Olympic Games was officially legalized and officially recognized.
△ Female athletes who participated in the 1900 Paris Olympic Games had to wear skirts at that time.
This is still the case with global sports events, and the participation of ordinary women around the world in sports can be imagined.
In the 1920s, for example, the British Football Association banned women from playing in the stadium to which they belonged, on the grounds of protecting women from health damage, a provision that was not lifted until 1970.
At that time in China, although some professional female athletes also emerged, the entire country was poor and weak, the situation was turbulent, ordinary people had difficulty surviving, and it was almost impossible for women to participate in sports extensively.
Fast forward to the '80s, when only 23 percent of the athletes at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics were women.
Until the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the proportion of female athletes participating in the competition was close to 49%, ushering in the first "gender equality" in Olympic history.
△ This gender equality is the official term of the Olympic Games. Tokyo 2021 is the first time in history that all 206 countries and regions will send at least one female and one male athlete to participate, and female athletes can participate in all Olympic sports.
In other words, the fact that women can really participate in sports on a fairer footing around the world was only realized last year.
When the first sister looked up the information and found this fact, she was really shocked.
However, even if they earn the right to participate in sports through their own efforts, women's sports status will usher in equality, and women's obstacles on the road to participation in sports sports will not be less.
After all, women on the sports field will face more "being defined" and "being questioned".
Women's Sports
How hard it is
In the early days, although female athletes were allowed to participate in sports competitions, there were restrictions on the sports, and they could only participate in tennis, archery, swimming, and golf, which were "sports that do not require physical strength and explosiveness".
Sports such as athletics, weightlifting, and boxing, which require extreme explosiveness and aggression, are considered incompatible with the so-called "femininity" or even "health damage to women".
The gap between top athletes, both men and women, is not very different in marathon performance. But the Olympic women's 800m event was suspended for 32 years, on the grounds that the 800-meter run may exceed women's physical limits.
Therefore, if it were not for the women themselves to take the initiative to fight, we would not have the opportunity to see the national team women's football team has won 7 consecutive championships and now regained the feat of the Asian Cup.
The so-called "femininity and physical condition" not only becomes a resistance for female athletes in the process of participating in the competition, but also forces women to bear a lot of "social role and aesthetic aspects" pressure in public.
As a result, many female athletes have achieved amazing results, but they are difficult to be widely recognized. Female athletes not only have to face the oppression of some of the opposite sex, but also have to endure a lot of same-sex vision.
For example, Zhang Weili, China's first women's UFC fighting champion, was ridiculed as "too capable of fighting, no one dares to want it", and Gong Lijiao, a shot put player who fought for 4 Olympic Games to win the gold medal, was asked by a female reporter "when to be a girl".
Not to mention professional competitive sports, even if it is ordinary mass sports and mass fitness, there are still many people who think that women should not "destroy" their original image.
Girls should not participate in too intense or even confrontational sports, adult women do not need to do strength training, a little muscle is "overweight", is still the concept of many people.
In addition, the phenomenon of "unequal pay for equal work" among female athletes and male athletes is still very common and controversial around the world.
△ This is especially true after the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup in the past two days.
Not counting the top male athletes making a lot of money, the magic scene of the top female athletes not paying enough of the former has been staged all over the world.
In the well-known American Professional Basketball League (NBA), Schuyler Deakins, a player in the women's league WNBA, has publicly complained that he is taking the WNBA's top salary, with an annual salary of only $115,500.
The men's league NBA player Harrison Barnes in the same period is not a top player, nor is he paid a maximum salary, but his annual salary is as high as $24 million.
△ Converted to RMB, Barnes has already earned more than 100 million yuan a year.
Not only the normal salary income, but also the endorsement income of sports stars, such a gap between men and women is also objective.
Even so, the vast majority of female athletes still haven't given up.
So, if a woman can be successful in the sports world, sit on a huge national influence, drive the public's attention to sports, especially women's sports, and thus get a high income, is it not a good thing?
Women's sport
The true meaning of
Sports were created as educational and enjoyable only to certain groups of people.
Although not everyone has to rely on sports to eat and raise children to become sports stars, the participation rate and recognition of women's sports reflects women's social status to some extent.
For example, the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of women's sports in ancient mainland China, and correspondingly, the development opportunities for women in the Tang Dynasty were also more.
After the Tang Dynasty, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Gangchang ethics imprisoned women, and women's sports were on the verge of extinction. At that time, women had no place to speak of.
Therefore, sports are also a kind of "education" that women should get. Participation in sports itself is very helpful for women.
The most obvious point that the first sister feels herself is that exercise can help her overcome the "inferiority" psychology and establish a strong self-confidence.
When a woman has strong athletic ability, she tends to be more confident. Because in the process of physical progress, she has broken through a lot of psychological shackles and is no longer self-imprisoned.
△ So female athletes can always bring us a positive feeling.
If you can also rely on your own continuous efforts to complete a standard pull-up, will you still easily believe in various "women do not do xxx" and "women should not do xxx" ideas and statements?
When the Asian Cup female international Zhang Xin passed the ball to assist her teammates to pull back the score, is it still so important that she is married and has children?
Just like women really can't learn mathematics, physics and chemistry? Definitely not, but the outside world has instilled this concept in us for a long time, causing us to start self-confinement.
Most things in life, hard work does not necessarily bear fruit, but exercise and fitness are always a point of hard work and a point of gain. It can be part of our self-confidence, the beliefs that underpin us.
And long-term participation in sports brings about the improvement of physical health and appearance, energy and external maintenance, which in turn will bring us a strong promotion in life.
We gain much more than just stature. A stronger body is also a solid foundation that supports us to explore more of life's possibilities.
A sister does not mean that women must ignore the physiological differences, and must ride in the dust to prove themselves in terms of sports.
It's just that we are in a good era, and the majority of women have the right to choose, and can participate in sports and fitness equally and freely.
For the average woman, it is a pity that sports have been marginalized for a long time.
△ China is the country with the most balanced gender ratio among the top 20 olympic medals in history.
Women's participation in sports and fitness is taken seriously, widely accepted and concerned, which is a great thing. We should also take the initiative to seize this opportunity, after all, some people will want us to give up.
Every woman who participates in sports and sports is contributing to women's development. Our focus on sport and sport will really improve the status of female athletes and women themselves.
And all of this also needs to be driven by a female role model who can convey positivity and sunshine.
Therefore, rather than saying that female sports idols are deliberate and deliberate, it is better to say that this is after everything is ready and conforms to the trend of the times.
In such an era when the status of women's sports and the status of women are constantly improving, it is really normal to have a phenomenon-level female sports idol.
Even if there is no Gu Ailing, there will be Liu Ailing, Wang Ailing, Li Ailing... In any case, sooner or later, in short, they are unstoppable.
It will be more and more, more and more red.