Objectifying Gymnasts
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 7th, 2016
Good morning!
Yes, Alycedale, it was a quick switch, and I’m switching again this morning. :)
I started doing gymnastics at age 7. My father built me a balance beam so that I could practice at home during the days when I wasn’t in the gym training. I was a competing gymnast for many years so watching gymnastics during the Olympics is always a special and exciting time for me.
It’s changed a lot since my time in the sport.
From The Huff Po:
Hereâs The Real Reason We Love Watching Olympic Gymnastics
The sport stretches our expectations about womenâs bodies and womenâs sports â but only as far as weâre comfortable.
Gabby Douglas practices on the uneven bars during a training session on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro.
Among Americans, gymnastics is one of the most popular Olympic sports. In 2012, over 38 million people watched the USA womenâs team take gold in London, and the âFab 5,â led by Americaâs third consecutive Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas, returned home as celebrities. This year, with a similarly dominant team that includes Douglas and 2012 veteran Aly Raisman, as well as three-time world champion Simone Biles, NBC can reasonably expect similar numbers.
Itâs not just Olympic viewership where the sport is popular, either; across the nation, at hundreds of clubs, close to 74,000 American girls and women are doing artistic gymnastics (the official name for the version of the sport that involves vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise), according to numbers provided by USA Gymnastics.
It might not be the NFL or the NBA, but gymnastics is big here. Americans love gymnastics, and the popularity of the womenâs side of the sport considerably outweighs that of the menâs.
Some of that popularity is due to the breathtaking daring involved: There are few things more thrilling than watching a gymnast launch herself into a tumbling series on the 4-inch-wide balance beam, or watching her whip her body around the high bar into a dazzling dismount followed by an improbable rock-solid stuck landing. Gymnastics, as gymnasts and coaches know, is physics; itâs governed by the rules of inertia, momentum and rotation, like the rest of the world. To outside viewers, though, it can seem more magic than physics â how else to explain how these young women manipulate their bodies into feats that ought to be physically impossible? No wonder itâs a must-watch on NBC every four years.
There are other reasons why gymnastics is one of the most beloved sports at any Games, though, and theyâre less about the magic of the sport than they are about how gymnastics stretches cultural norms around womenâs bodies and womenâs sports only as far as weâre comfortable. Theyâre less about the delight viewers feel at seeing a gymnast stick a galactically high vault than they are about how the sport walks the fine line of pushing boundaries while compensating for its transgressions against gendered expectations.
Lauren Hernandez trains on beam ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
In her new book The End Of The Perfect 10, gymnastics journalist Dvora Meyers documents the sportâs shift to a new scoring system with theoretically limitless scoring, in which the difficulty of a gymnastâs routine and her execution of it are evaluated separately, with the two scores added together to produce a final score. The goal of the new Code of Points was to find a way to reward gymnasts for attempting increasingly difficult routines and discourage them from playing it safe in order to perform perfectly â and to recognize when routines were being performed well. It was implemented in 2006, and 10 years on, one thing is clear: The sport has become dramatically more athletic.
Gymnastics has also tended toward increasing difficulty; the vaults that were being performed by Olympic champions in the 1970s and 1980s are now considered easy enough for lower-level gymnasts to perform. Watch a video of Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut vaulting at the 1972 games and a video of American Carly Patterson vaulting at the 2004 Games, the last to be held under the old Perfect 10 scoring system, and itâs clear that thereâs been some difficulty deflation.
But the new scoring system, Meyers argues, has accelerated that phenomenon, because the new Code of Points puts a greater emphasis on acrobatics and tumbling over the dance elements that used to be common on floor and beam. The result, says Guardian sports journalists Elizabeth Booth, is that âgymnasts have become athletes.â The ideal body shape for the sport has changed, yet again, from improbably strong but short and skinny, or with long, balletic lines, to spectacularly muscular, with an even greater emphasis on the strength of lower body muscles required for explosive tumbling and vaulting.
Aly Raisman competes in the floor exercise during day two of the 2016 P&G Gymnastics Championships at Chafitz Arena on June 26in St. Louis.
Gymnasts have become athletes. Crucially, some of the more difficult vaults and tumbling tricks are ones that were pioneered by male gymnasts and that women are now attempting and mastering. And as the sport has become more difficult and the gymnasts more undeniably, mind-bogglingly strong, the aesthetics of the sport have changed to emphasize their femininity, as if to compensate and reassure those who view femininity and athleticism as contradictory.
For one thing, if you watch the Games this week, youâll notice that the gymnasts are heavily made up, as they are in most competitions. Until recently, the U.S. gymnastics team had a sponsorship deal with CoverGirl. Sometimes, the team will compete in matching bold red lipstick, as they did earlier this year at last yearâs World Championships in Glasgow. Gymnasts have long worn makeup in competition, and when you consider the number of cameras being pointed at them, beaming close-up images of them around the globe, you can understand why. But in recent years, watching gymnastics competitions has left me wondering â especially since makeup was prohibited in meets when I was a gymnast in the late â90s and early 2000s â when they find the time on meet days to apply so much of it.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina displays the gold medal for her performance on the uneven bars during the artistic gymnastics womenâs apparatus finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
So it goes for jewelry, which was similarly prohibited when I was a gymnast. We were not permitted to wear jewelry of any kind â no earrings, no necklaces, no navel rings, nothing. At the risk of bearing too close a resemblance to an old man yelling at a cloud, I would say this seems like a necessary rule, for obvious reasons. Jewelry gets caught on things, it bumps against your body and distracts you, it can come off and go missing in the gym. An earring on a gymnast always looks like a bloody mess waiting to happen â whatâs to stop it from getting caught on a coachâs sleeve while sheâs spotting you and tearing out of your earlobe? Yet earrings are now permitted in international competitions, provided theyâre studs, and theyâre commonplace.
And then, thereâs the sparkles. As the New York Times documented this week, international gymnastics is experiencing something of a sparkle arms race, with leotards becoming increasingly crowded with crystals. In 2008, the Times noted, Olympic Champion Nastia Liukin won her medal in a leotard that featured 184 crystals. Four years later, Douglasâ leotard had 1,188 crystals. This year, the Team USA leotards have 5,000 crystals â each.
The combined effect â of the makeup, the jewelry, and the glitter â is an impression of a concerted effort to convey that these girls may well be athletes, but they are still girls.
Gold medalist Simone Biles, left, celebrates with silver medalist Gabrielle Douglas after the womenâs all-round final at the World Gymnastics Championships in Scotland in October 2015.
Meyers agrees that a desire to compensate for athleticism with sparkling displays of femininity may explain the Swarovski surge. She also allows that there may be other factors at play; elite gymnasts tend to compete longer and therefore be older than they once were, âso maybe they can express their aesthetic preferences a little better.â The same goes for makeup, she says: Because the gymnasts are older, âtheyâre given a little more permission to play with makeup than they used to have, and theyâre a little older, so maybe theyâre allowed to assert themselves a little better.â
All the same, the dramatically increased difficulty of the sport has coincided with a noticeable shift in the gendered self-presentation of gymnasts, and the two would appear to be connected.
Recent changes aside, there are other reasons why gymnastics appeals so widely that have less to do with the sport itself and more to do with cultural expectations of girls and women. For one, as Meyers notes, gymnastics is not strictly adversarial: The athletes compete against each other, but each routine, each gymnastâs performance, exists independently of all the others. They arenât chasing and tackling each other to gain possession of a ball or aiming shots at each otherâs goals. Theyâre competing against each other, but there is no physical contact of any kind, and each routine is a performance that, in theory, shouldnât be influenced by the rival who performed immediately before.
Itâs probably no coincidence that one of Americaâs most popular womenâs sports is one in which athletes perform more than they compete. This is a form of feminine athletic involvement weâre comfortable with; even though theyâre throwing themselves around in skin-tight leotards that show every line in their six-packs, theyâre competing in an appropriately feminine way. This may also account for the relative unpopularity of menâs gymnastics, which is similarly non-adversarial; Americaâs most popular menâs sport is one in which athletes pummel each other to the point of causing permanent and debilitating neurological injuries.
Gymnast MyKayla Skinner poses for a portrait in Los Angeles in November 2015.Â
Finally, thereâs the ways that media coverage of gymnastics encourage viewers to focus on gymnastsâ bodies, muscled and athletic though they are, in ways that are perfectly in keeping with a culture that objectifies the female body and often undermines womenâs abilities and achievements by emphasizing their physical appearance. Itâs evident in press shots of gymnasts wearing leotards but with their hair down and flowing, instead of pulled back tight as is necessary for training and competition â as if to reassure the viewer that theyâre athletes, but theyâre also women.
Itâs evident in the ways that commentators comment on and compare the size and shapes of gymnastsâ bodies, in terms that have varied, over time, from excessively frequent to downright creepy. And itâs obvious in the tendency of media outlets to feature photos of gymnasts with their legs wide open and their crotches facing directly to the camera. Clearly, these photos are spectacular ways to convey the strength and flexibility of gymnasts, but the widespread reliance on the âcrotch shotâ to communicate that idea suggests at best a lack of imagination, and at worst a sexualization of world-class athletes, some of whom are very young indeed.
There are ways to show how strong and flexible a gymnast is without aiming a lens directly at a teenagerâs barely covered crotch.
In short, one of the ways in which gymnastics is made palatable to â and wildly popular with â a mainstream audience is by making it more closely resemble the rest of the world, where women are valued not for what their bodies can do but for how they look. Itâs a world where womenâs achievements, be they athletic or intellectual, are often perceived to be at odds with their ability to perform a particular kind of femininity. A world where women and girls often feel pressure to cushion the transgressive impact of their excellence in athletic or intellectual fields â long viewed as the province of men â by emphasizing that femininity, with sparkles and lipstick.
There are many reasons to love gymnastics. For me, the love is rooted in memories of my own gymnastics career, and in my awe at the strength, tenacity and fearlessness of little girls, whether or not they grow up to be Olympic champions. Itâs easy to enjoy the sport for its death-defying tricks and its sparkly glamor. But as we tune in to watch this yearâs highly anticipated competition, we should remember there are other, less savory reasons for the sportâs appeal: Even as it challenges us to see girls and women as exceptional athletes, it reassures us that ultimately, they will be kept in their place.
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Readers: In my opinion gymnasts were always athletes. I always considered myself an athlete when I was doing gymnastics. I certainly trained and was dedicated just like any other athlete. My body benefitted big time (I had muscles to prove it), and paid for it (Hello later hip problems and two frozen shoulders).
The tumbling tricks that I performed then were dangerous (You try doing back flips on a 4″ wide piece of hard wood) and required a lot of strength. If you didn’t build those muscles you wouldn’t last in the competition. And like many sports, the degree of difficulty has grown which makes it that much more exciting to watch. I love that these women are stretching (no pun intended) themselves to greater heights (again no pun…), and pushing their bodies to perform incredible feats of athleticism.
What about the huge increase in glitz and glamour? Yeah, I’ve noticed. It has gotten a whole lot more glamorous and glitzy then when I was competing when leotards were just a basic one or two colors. And jewelry? Forget about it – too dangerous. No thanks to the make-up too. Who wants all of that on your face when you’re out there sweating? The “made up” face especially on the younger girls in my opinion is too much – I find it distracting.
Who started this? Women gymnasts don’t need to justify their femininity in any manner. They’re athletes, female athletes. The focus should be on their talents and athleticism in their sport, not how they look in their leotards.
Speaking of… I agree that all the crotch shots are lacking imagination when it comes to showing just how incredibly strong, and flexible these girls are. I too think it’s sexualizing, and sickening. Women have come a long way athletically in this sport but it looks like we still have a long way to go when it comes to shedding the sexual objectification of women and it’s not just in gymnastics.
What’s your thoughts?
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August 7th, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Agree…keep it about the sport and athleticism not how =HOT= they can look.
Personally I think it ‘fluffifies’ and minimizes the real work that went into it all…distracting as well.
Luv, Zen Lill
PS I said ‘no thank you, peace out’ when I was asked to do more than walk across that 4″ wood beam in phys Ed class years ago lol
August 7th, 2016 at 7:06 pm
I watch because I love those fine bodies.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:06 pm
I’d pay good money to see you on a balance beam Michelle.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:07 pm
I don’t see anything wrong with women dressing up before they do their floor exercises.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:18 pm
That bigot trump has added the Philippines as a place he would target if he became president. Let’s get out and vote this racist idiot back into the ranks of his racist followers.
âDonald Trump’s latest disturbing statement and rant suggests that as president he would ban immigration from countries like the Philippines. This is reckless and does not embody our values as a country or island. The Philippines helps America fight terrorism and Filipinos contribute to our island’s growth and success,â Underwood stated. âFilipinos on our island and across the country serve in uniform, in our hospitals, in our schools and across every private and public sector â Filipinos are also beloved members of our families and communities.â
A California-based Filipino community newspaper, the Asian Journal reported Underwood’s comments. In an article titled “Senators fire back at Trumpâs proposed ban on immigrants from âterrorist nations,â” the paper reported, “Senator Nerissa Bretania Underwood of Guam, a Filipina, also condemned the Republican presidential nomineeâs proposals, describing his rhetoric as divisive and ‘reckless.’”
‘Clear and present danger’
Democratic delegate candidate Anthony âTonyâ Babauta issued a press release echoing Underwoodâs statement. âThere is clear and present danger should a Trump presidency come to fruition,â stated Babauta. âHeâs now extended his anti-immigrant and bigoted views to include the Asia-Pacific region and toward one of our countryâs most important partners in our effort to defeat terrorism.â
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The scary thing is he is speaking the minds of 40% of the electorate. Which says a lot about what white men are secretly thinking while they are smiling into the faces of OTWs.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:22 pm
I bet you were a beautifully talented gymnast Michelle.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I’d settle for a pair of the leotards you did your routines in. Why not put them up for auction on the blog. It could raise money for the needy. I know I would make a bid.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:25 pm
I’ve seen you in a bathing suit recently, so I know what you must have looked like doing your gymnast exercises. Lovely indeed! The routine, I mean.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:27 pm
I’ve seen that bod naked so I know that with a skin tight leotard on you are a sight to behold.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:28 pm
If only I were the mat you performed your floor routine on.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:28 pm
Yes, you horn dogs. Have your fun. The lady is immune.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:29 pm
I certainly wish you hadn’t quit before you made a few television performances. I would love to have something to rerun slowly over and over again.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:31 pm
Pay no attention to those creeps Michelle. You on the balance beam must have been nice as I know you are fearless thou you be small.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:32 pm
I got a balance beam you can do some routines on Michelle. Don’t worry about your age, just get on it and try not to fall off.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Michelle, if you were representing the USA, Gold, Silver, or Bronze wouldn’t matter, just to know you are representing us would be fine with me.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:36 pm
My sister says the guys are just too lewd on this blog. She asked me to chime in since she knows I am a big fan of yours. Frankly I’d like to see you on the uneven parallel bars.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Michelle, I just couldn’t resist the thought of your swinging into my living room with your legs wide open doing your uneven bars routine.
How cruel are the gods for not allowing you to have performed on a recorded medium?
As close to blasphemy as one could get.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:41 pm
I’d love to come over and build you a balance beam to practice upon. Nothing dangerous, of course, just a few moves in uniform to bring back the ole memories. I’d even be nice enough to sit and be your silence audience.
Just you and me. Enjoying the pleasures of the good ole days.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Michelle, what do Westerners know about the art of appreciating a fine woman performing as an artist?
We Japanese know how to allow a woman to perform for the pleasure of viewing. I am satisfied with the image you conjured up by simply stating you were once a gymnast.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Just three basic movements will keep your entire body strong and fit
Like it or not, exercise is an integral part of healthy living. Fortunately, it can be easily and effectively incorporated into your everyday life without having to spend money on a pricey gym membership or personal trainer.
In fact, for the large majority of the population, buying a membership to a fitness center is no more productive than taking diet pills. Studies have shown that of those individuals who enroll in a fitness club, 80 percent drop out within eight weeks.
That’s not to say that gyms are a waste of time. If structured exercise programs work for you, stick with them. If they don’t, then donât feel guilty, and donât waste your money. You can get similar results at home.
There are three specific activities that are my favorites for overall strength. Together, they work to maintain strength in all areas of your body, literally from head to toe. You’ll recognize them as old stand-bys:
Pushups
Squats
Trunk Twists
Pushups
The overall best exercise for upper body strength is the pushup. It builds your arms, shoulders, and chest. There are many variations on the pushup.
To increase difficulty of a pushup, elevate your feet on a footstool, bed, or couch. Then suspend one leg in the air or one arm behind the back (or both).
If you can’t do a regular pushup and need to decrease the difficulty, try “pushbacks” using a wall. Stand back from the wall a little further than arm’s length, lean in, and put your palms on the wall at shoulder height and width. Slowly bend your elbows, lean into the wall, and repeat for 10 repetitions. Gradually work up to doing this three times. It is more effective if you don’t lock your elbows at the end of each pushback.
If you have stiffness or tightness between the shoulder blades, or have a problem with slumping shoulders, you can do a variation of the pushback by performing the maneuver in a corner, with your hands on either side of the corner. This will allow you to dip deeper and feel a nice stretch between the shoulders.
Other tips to get the most out of your pushups:
Keep your weight at the back of your hands near your wrists rather than on your fingertips. If this hurts your wrists, look for “pushup handles” at a sporting goods store, or grab onto dumbbells (use hex-shaped ones, so they won’t roll away).
Protect your back by keeping your bottom and your abdominal muscles tucked in to keeping it from sagging.
Keep your hands at least shoulder-width apart to help protect your shoulders.
Breathe in synchronization with your movement. Inhale on the way down, and exhale on the way up.
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Squats
The squat is undoubtedly the best exercise for muscles in the lower body. The safest method is to use a sturdy, firm chair as a “safety net.” Stand in front of the chair with your feet spread shoulder-width apart. Keep your back straight, and your arms extended in front of you. Slowly lower yourself until you almost touch the chair, hold that position for a couple of seconds (longer as you progress) and then slowly come to the upright position again.
This exercise will strengthen the muscles in your legs, knees, and buttocks. If you have good balance, you can also strengthen your calves and ankles by rolling up on the balls of your feet when youâve reached the standing position. If your balance isnât so good, do this aspect of the exercise separately while holding on to the back of the chair.
To make squats more difficult, use something lower than a chair, like a short stool or ottoman, or work up to a full squat.
Trunk Twists
Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart. Hold your arms in front of you at shoulder height, palms facing outward and fingers clasped. Keep your hips still and twist your torso clockwise, then counterclockwise, as far as you can. Be sure your arms and head move with your torso. This is mostly a stretching exercise so donât “bounce” your trunk at the end of the movement, or you could injure your back. Instead, push as far as you can in one direction before moving back.
You don’t need to do all of these exercises in one concentrated session. Instead, do several of each several times a day.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:50 pm
J’adore l’idĂ©e de vous en collants, de faire des exercices, Michelle. Je suis mouillĂ© juste imaginer plus.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:53 pm
You would certainly not have to take drugs to enhance your performance. Of course, Putin could force you if you were Russian.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:55 pm
You are small like our Chinese performers. I too can fantasize about those long curly black locks and those sexy eyes mesmerizing the judges and audience.
I’d give you a 10.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:57 pm
I wonder if you would have to remove the tummy button. I guess not since jewelry is now permitted.
August 7th, 2016 at 7:59 pm
To be a judge and have to focus on that beautiful ass while it is performing would be a job made in heaven.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:00 pm
You guys have just be waiting to get your lust for the Michelle out. Have at it. Tomorrow is another day.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:03 pm
My sister says I don’t pay enough attention to the things you say. Well little sis if you are reading this, know that I am paying attention now.
Michelle, I bet you still could do a good balance beam or any of the other exercises the female gymnasts perform. I’m 57, in good shape, and I wouldn’t say not to watching you give it a spin.
Heck, I’d even consider being an impartial judge.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Michelle, give a man an inch and he thinks he has a mile. But then again, what can it hurt to imagine. Dream on fellows.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:08 pm
Michelle, I can imagine you suited up to do your routines. I too was a gymnast. I would have loved to be on your team. You have such an intoxicating smile. I would perform my best to receive it as a reward.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:10 pm
I like the irish look in your eyes Michelle. N. Ireland would make you an honorary gymnast anytime.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:11 pm
You a gymnast? Let me be the judge. I need to see you in full regalia.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:12 pm
You my sweet would represent Innocence in Leotards.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Michelle since the subject has moved from the topic to you in leotards, in my humble opinion you need to post a shot or two or twelve, or so.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:17 pm
Andrezj#27, I have never posted because I did not think I had anything of importance to add to the discussions here. Now you go an embarrass me.
JesteĆ kompletnym dupkiem. JeĆli nie masz pieniÄdzy, moĆŒna byĆoby siÄ pariasem. PrzeproĆ Michelle naraz.
Michelle, please allow me to apologize for my stupid brother.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:19 pm
I have seen you many times at various functions, Michelle. I would be delighted to see you on a balance beam.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:20 pm
I agree with you Michelle, so I will accept your performance on a balance beam in the place of your choosing with or without make-up.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:22 pm
Be a gymnast in my quarters and you will get the Gold.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:25 pm
Frankly, I thought you were an athlete in your day the first time I saw you in a bathing suit. Your performance on the dance floor synched it. If only I could dance, I would have gotten a closer look.
To this day, I regret my cowardice in not asking you to dance. Ahh, you were a beautiful sight. Now to conjure up a floor routine just adds to the pleasure. I hope you know I mean it in the best way.
August 7th, 2016 at 8:30 pm
Cynthia#26, Yeah, I know. But do you mind if we enjoy today. I’m getting a big kick out of the lustful repartee and the “dreams” Isabela#28.
It;s all in fun. You ladies can have at it tomorrow.
August 8th, 2016 at 7:33 am
I watched the Williams sisters lose in the doubles and your comment that you had tried gymnastics jogged my memory. So I set my timer to record the gymnast series.
Previously I have not had an interest in the men or the women gymnasts. I like competition that involves an opponent(s) facing each other.
But the thought of you in tights performing and me being a voyeur pretending to be interested in the sport while praying for all I could see of you was just too much to resist.
Now it is off my conscious, I can relax and enjoy my delights. You were splendid in every event.