All Olympic Games have their controversies. Do you remember the cardboard beds to prevent Olympic boinking in Tokyo? Let’s go over a few and give them a drama analysis based on moments from Mean Girls.
Drama: Quarantine Cafeteria Food
So….it’s definitely not what I would order off the menu. I think the chicken piece in the top corner is what puts it over the edge for me. BUT, at least it’s not like Delaware school cafeterias where people had milk in a clear bag where you had to put a straw directly in it and then kids would make milk fountains or throw the bag or someone would slam their fist on the bag. Either way, it always ended up with milk everywhere. Is that the reason I hate milk? We’ll never know.
Anywho, the very poor state of delivered meals in the quarantine hotel has been confirmed by multiple athletes from multiple countries. So this seems real and kinda gross but also easy to fix.
DRAMA RATING: Giving your friend Kalteen bars for a couple weeks. Not permanent but they aren’t going to forget it.
Drama: Leslie Jones V NBC Battle
Leslie Jones is doing her usual thing of live-tweeting the Olympics, bringing wider awareness and new audiences to the games. Sounds great right? Wrong. For a little while, she was being told to stop. The problem is she live streams tv coverage of the Olympics and provides commentary. I’m not surprised this became an issue because the Olympic brand and NBC’s coverage are locked down so tightly. I’m probably a few hours away from getting a cease and desist letter after typing this.
There was a public outcry and NBC claimed some bullshit third-party issue as the problem….rightttt. Either way, it’s over now and Leslie should be back in action!
DRAMA RATING: Secretly threeway calling someone and pretending everything is fine now that the truth is out while pretending to move on, but you know.
DRAMA: Baggy Clothing Bias
This is just unfolding and I’m sure there will be much more to come. In the Olympic debut of mixed team ski jumping, 5 female athletes were disqualified during the finals for having “too baggy” jumpsuits that could give them an unfair advantage in the air. Like a flying squirrel. There are some serious red flags there is something nefarious happening:
- The countries with disqualifications are some of the historically strongest ski jumping countries seemingly targeting likely medalists
- All of the athletes are females and there is a long history of people within the sport being biased and exclusionary towards women
- The athletes are saying their suits were all approved for the games and numerous other competitions throughout the year and overnight the rules seemed to be changed
I was never a jnco jeans kids so I’m not the best judge of what is too baggy but this definitely seems suspicious and I’m eager to find out what will eventually go in the burn book.
DRAMA RATING: Pretending to be someone’s friend but secretly planning their entire social demise and stealing their man in a movie montage. Can’t really come back from that.
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