U.S. male gymnasts want to be objectified.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/rio-2016...ied-1470625110
When the United States men’s gymnastics team came to the site of the Olympics earlier this year for a reconnaissance training camp, the American athletes did what anyone in Brazil with a carefully sculpted body would do. They went to the beach, stripped to their Speedos and whipped out a selfie stick. The soaring peaks of Sugarloaf Mountain in the background have never looked so meek.
What happened next was exactly the reaction the U.S. team imagined. The Internet went gaga for the ensuing Instagrams.
That wasn’t an accident. It’s one of the ways they think they can get attention in a country that showers glory upon gold-medal-winning women gymnasts while ignoring America’s less-successful men’s team.
