Gladiators: Boob Of Death!

[andygates]

The new series of Gladiators starts soon and teaser posters are popping up.  They're all the same format: one of the new glads looking mean and photoshopped, with the caption "Gladiators Ready".  Go on, read it without doing the referee bloke's voice in your head.

What confuses me is that the male glads are generally looking, well, gladiatorial - all muscles and mean stares and the promise that the contenders are going to get a kicking.  As you'd expect.  But the female glads are done up in statuesque poses that suggest not so much combat readiness as a flexploitation eagerness to bludgeon someone into unconsciousness with their Boobs Of Death. 

C'mon marketing guys.  Girls can be athletes too, y'know?  They can even be athletes and hot, without having to unleash the cheeseball Red Sonja stereotype.  There's something about this that suggests that the boys will be playing for real and the girls will be mud-wrestling for the boy's delight, and that doesn't sit comfortably.  Female readers: Does this sort of cheese put you off?  Or am I just overreacting? 

Ah well, it's just the posters.  I look forward to the marvellous silliness of the programmes later when they escape Sky 1's orbit.

Comments

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Just hang around at any triathlon meet. All athletes, no mingers. Which reached jaw-dropping proportions at the national relays last year...

Regarding gladiators, they have not yet reached their low. They will do that when they get some slightly weedy looking blokes (probably celebrities) in for a 'laugh' and get the girls to beat up on them. Me? I shall watch the olympics with particlar detail to the swimming and athletics. Much more like it.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It must be said that riding through Brean was a bit of a shock yesterday, after attending a bunch of triathlon meets. All was redeemed with today's marshalling.

Interestingly it's not just the size, there are always a few hefty boys and girls present, it's the gumption. Okay, and the rest. But the gumption is a big factor. I will admit though that young, smart, talented, devastatingly fit and full of gumption (cf Vanessa Raw) is very distracting.

(You can, of course, already get weedy-bloke-clobbered-by-Amazon-totty material online - there's a lucrative market in it. C'est l'Internet.)

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Of course you can. But you're not a sad perv loser if you are watching mainstream telly and it just happens along now are you?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Well, your sad perv loser score is not altered. I doubt it will drag my score back up into respectability...