{"id":200359,"date":"2014-07-21T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/thepoeticrebel-simchiller-they-outlawed-this\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T03:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:21:54","slug":"thepoeticrebel-simchiller-they-outlawed-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/thepoeticrebel-simchiller-they-outlawed-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-200359 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/thepoeticrebel-simchiller-they-outlawed-this\/attachment\/200360\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzeyn0wqPX1s6sv3ko1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzeyn0wqPX1s6sv3ko1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzeyn0wqPX1s6sv3ko1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thepoeticrebel.tumblr.com\/post\/73351128744\/simchiller-they-outlawed-this-move-just-because\" target=\"_blank\">thepoeticrebel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/simchiller.tumblr.com\/post\/73347606562\/they-outlawed-this-move-just-because-she-was-the\" target=\"_blank\">simchiller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>they outlawed this move just because she was the only woman who could do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surya Bonaly was infamous for (among other things) doing a<em>one blade<\/em>\u00a0backflip in the 1998 Olympics, and is the ONLY figure skater who\u2019s ever pulled that off. Not just the only woman, the only figure skater PERIOD. There\u2019s like all of<em>three<\/em>\u00a0Olympic-class male skaters who did backflips in their routines, and NONE of them could do it one blade.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n<p>Backflips were banned from the 1976 Olympics onward on the official justification that skating jumps are supposed to be landed on one blade, whereas backflips are landed on both blades. The unofficial justification was it was too dangerous, both to the athlete and to the rink \u2014 if you didn\u2019t land it perfectly, you could not only break your ankle, but also punch THROUGH the ice surface.<\/p>\n<p>Surya Bonaly was\u00a0<em>openly contemptuous<\/em>\u00a0of the figure skating judges, because they were a bunch of openly racist white men who\u00a0<em>always<\/em>\u00a0screwed her over by giving her lower scores than she deserved. That one-blade backflip was her ultimate FUCK YOU! to the Olympics judges, because she took an \u201cillegal\u201d backflip and\u00a0<em>made it legal<\/em>\u00a0by landing it on one blade. Pretty much DARING them to mark her down for being\u00a0<em>epic awesome<\/em>\u00a0and pulling a move that their precious coddled white girls didn\u2019t have the guts to even think about.<\/p>\n<p>They did, of course. White racism knows no bounds. But she utterly owned them with that move.<\/p>\n<p>not only did she do a fucking backflip and land, she landed then went right into a triple loop. like holy fuck<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn son I ain\u2019t seen shit like that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thepoeticrebel: simchiller: they outlawed this move just because she was the only woman who could do it.\u00a0 Surya Bonaly was infamous for (among other things) doing aone blade\u00a0backflip in the 1998 Olympics, and is the ONLY figure skater who\u2019s ever pulled that off. Not just the only woman, the only figure skater PERIOD. There\u2019s like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/thepoeticrebel-simchiller-they-outlawed-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15367,7751,12555,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200361,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200359\/revisions\/200361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}