Originally Posted by FantasticMrFox:
“Right. But the general public love the lifts and find them exciting and flashy. ”
“Right. But the general public love the lifts and find them exciting and flashy. ”
Do they? When celebs have thought a big lift was the way to get votes, it hasn't worked very well for them.
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“They are usually the parts that get cheers and not the complicated footwork. ”
“They are usually the parts that get cheers and not the complicated footwork. ”
The audience is not the general public, they may well cheer the male celebs doing lifts more than the women being lifted, and nothing about complicated footwork can mean that lifts help the women more than working against them.
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“It's been shown that any skater of any ability can do the lifts as has been shown with the numerous weaker skaters over the years.”
“It's been shown that any skater of any ability can do the lifts as has been shown with the numerous weaker skaters over the years.”
That isn't true (the numerous weaker skaters don't do the more difficult lifts), but even if it were true, how is it supposed to count against my point that "the women always have to struggle against the widespread belief that they aren't doing anything that requires significant ability to skill when they're being lifted". It supports my point, if anything.
