The women who can't look at the boxers..

Sunday morning and the Yahoo videos are playing.  I don't normally watch the videos but there is something about the faces of the two women. It seems they are sometimes scared and nervous about smiling. Their hands are stiff on their legs, like if they want to embrace themselves. The bodies are exposed.

I don't watch boxing.. though the Facebook feed is full of the people , nice people who watched the boxing. A woman tells me that she heard that her abusive ex had abused another woman and was in a relationship again with a woman who was troubled.

It seems no point to remind the people who celebrating Mayweather that they are celebrating his violence against women.  

  The two women stand up. I don't have on the audio. Something is not right. .I want to tell them, go go, you don't have to be there. How much money are you getting to stand there and look uncomfortable?
Ansa McAl introduced sexist alcohol advertising to Guyana.. it was vicious. The Real Men ads which were about connecting alcohol to the devaluing of women. I was told several times that I have no business talking about these ads, or beauty pageants or anything because women choose to be in them and I have no business criticising women's choices.

I can challenge the reasoning for the challenges.

Mayweather has been charged with violence against women. 
His colleague in the triumph of madness  McGregor   has been described as racist, he had an erection apparently at the thought of beating up Mayweather. The beer ad might have inspired more men to drink the beer if it was on his briefs?

The two women who stand next Mayweather.. I imagine that the reason their hands are so tight on their thighs is that they are thinking of curling them into fists for self defence.


In the sickening environment of boxing and violence, the two men are rewarded for their performance with millions of dollars. The media pushes the images out.  The media pushes out the story that the man who batters women went to a strip club afterwards with his millions.

The two women who stand next to the podium.. nothing there about how much money they made to stand there. The beer probably fueled more violence against women that night around the world. 

The women might have chosen to stand there. We can challenge the reasoning for that choice as women and men have participated in patriarchy as a way of survival.

There is a weirdness in the world. Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas. Mother Nature on her course

Toxic masculinity won again last night. Not so sure if Mother Nature was on her course here again.