The Australian Open - Tennis

I've been watching the Aussie Open.  Most of the time I've been wondering why we are having to endure so may games featuring grunting and shrieking women.  We also have to endure endless Australians of both sexes. We could have watched Tsonga or Monfils - we could have watched our own Marina Erakovic but did we - Hell No!

But today I found out why we are getting this woeful coverage! After watching the camera trained on the cleavage of a delightful young lady as she bent to wait for the serve, then being treated to the shapely derriere of another young woman walking back to her court position, I now know this has nothing to do with women's tennis as a sport.  It's just that men like watching young women in skimpy outfits on  courts. And Aussie is a bigger bully than us so we have to watch what they want on SKY.


I have long held the opinion that the male audience is also the reason why women's netball gets so much TV airing. While I can see the point of participating in netball, I've yet to find great merit in watching it. Maybe I'm just not really into scantily clad women jiggling their bits while advertising their best features.

Or maybe I'm missing the point somehow - after all - no-one is forcing the lasses to bare almost all - maybe it's all some mate-attracting ritual that I never quite got into.

The Lake Hayes Dark Ages A&P show Beer-brewing Competition

After all the brew-haha of the female beer-maker being banned from the Lake Hayes A&P show 'Blokes Only' Beer Brewing competition, I had a look at their website - The first line of which reads "We not only hold the traditional events but have created 21st century events."
Look for yourself if you don't believe me!  http://www.queenstownnz.co.nz/information/eventPopup/index.cfm?eventID=1350
 
Are these people for real?  In the 21st century they think gender makes a difference to beer-brewing ?  I did a fair amount of beer brewing in the 20th century.My brews  seemed pretty much unaffected by me being female. My stout didn't seem to mind my gender either.
What a bunch of wallies this Lake Hayes Brewing Competition organisers must be - more like stuck in the dark ages than having advanced to the 21st century.
Or maybe this is a blokey 'traditional event'?

  Picture courtesy of below website
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/03/shattering-beers-glass-ceiling-the-rise-of-women-brewers/72156/

Maybe a read of this page will enlighten our southern cousins.

Maybe they are just afraid a female will win!
I recall when a female friend of mine shot the won a couple of deer shooting awards.  The Dearstalkers' Association had a tradition of putting the winner's whole first and last names on the trophy, but in a break with this tradition, they put my friends first initial instead of her whole name.  Can't have any female names on the trophy now, can we - would ruin the image!
My friend took the trophy straight to an engraver and got 'Mrs.' put in front of her name.

Thank God I'm not a country girl!