Sexism In The Olympics

In the silent debate on media commentary; three things that were highlighted most by the portrayal of the Olympics are sexism in the media, racism by the media, and how stereotypical the media can be. In the article “Olympics coverage and commentary managed to offend, annoy, and alienate almost everyone” by Jenne Desmond-Harris Crockett; an outside source argues “Not only is being careless with words lazy, but it also represents lack of knowledge, and gives off a sense of ignorance.” The 2016 Olympic Games left many individuals in awe. Due to the fact that many articles clearly represented how they were “tainted by a seemingly constant stream of examples of the ways in which race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and even body types shape how people are treated, who’s celebrated, and who’s scorned.” The media managed to belittle and bemuse Olympic athletes, and show little to no care for the way they executed their response to certain achievements. In the preceding statement the author claim’s that the Rio Olympics didn’t create racism, sexism, or homophobia, it just gave them a two week platform to present them. The authors claim has merit, and the author has a much backed up argument, developing a pattern of using outside sources, and

social media to back up her claim. With all this information provided we can agree that the argument on media coverage is valid.
The primary issue at hand is the fact that this negativity is almost allowed, because no one was reprimanded for any incident of sexism, and or racism. Although some authors who had article headlines like this one “Michael Phelps shares a historic night with African American.” rewrote and countered them with an apology. The damage was already done.
Many people decided to take action, arguing through social media, and other articles debating how insensitive NBC is to the situation, and how they blatantly ignored every derogative racial, and sexist tactic used to belittle Olympians. In an article released by NBC they only highlight the positives, even though many of the negativity are being released by their live commenter’s during events. The article “Olympics coverage and commentary managed to offend, annoy, and alienate almost everyone” reaches out more on the topic. The author’s sole purpose was to inform you on how narrow minded a commenter, or a news writer can be, by presenting published articles such as one that minimizes Ledecky’s world breaking record, and two gold medals and then highlights Phelps winning a silver. This proving that there is inequality of certain minorities in the Olympics.
In addition, several of the authors use facts that have been proven with sources, and by adding in others viewpoints and even backing up their opinions with using twitter, and facebook to get the voice of the Olympic audience.

This helped the argument flourish more, because it strengthened the author’s viewpoint by creating stand points and providing explications of the issue of racism, and sexism in the media aspect of the Olympics. The author has a very strong base within the argument, and does provide us with several key points in the argument as well. Allowing us to hear one side generally, but then also giving opportunity to voice others opinions, creating the ability to see the argument from two different stand

points