There’s nothing wrong with his poise. He’s not wearing headgear besides his glasses, but otherwise he’s standing pretty much the same as other shooters. A lot of shooters wear eye shades or visors, but most of them stand like that. You place your off hand in your pocket, and lean back slightly to align the sights. It’s not the first time a shooter’s pose has gone viral for looking like a casual badass gangster.
It is such a perfect example of the internet that the woman in this pose is treated like a fool and the man with the exact same pose is some kind of badass.
During the Tokyo games in 2021, an image of the 2016 Rio games gold medal winner was posted on Twitter (erroneously being labelled as being from the Tokyo games), and she became a meme for women not knowing how to shoot because of her casual stance, and the subsequent meme for armchair experts trying to mansplain shooting to a gold medalist. At the time, it was a popular meme.
I think my problem is that so many of the mews don’t even reference him being in every man, or not using specialized equipment, they just have a picture of him with no context or caption
I find it to be an extremely stupid meme. He lost to someone using high tech shit. I don’t get why people are trying to make him into something more than he was.
We’re used to people who compete at world class levels having the highest tech, equipment, and perfect poise.
This guy competed in an extremely casual way, and still won silver.
It’s just a humorous subversion of expectations, especially compared to some of the other competitors in the same sport.
There’s nothing wrong with his poise. He’s not wearing headgear besides his glasses, but otherwise he’s standing pretty much the same as other shooters. A lot of shooters wear eye shades or visors, but most of them stand like that. You place your off hand in your pocket, and lean back slightly to align the sights. It’s not the first time a shooter’s pose has gone viral for looking like a casual badass gangster.
see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vitalina-batsarashkina-olympic-shooter-one-hand-stance/
And here are a bunch more shooters. Note how many aren’t wearing headgear or eye pieces.
https://img.olympics.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_380/f_auto/primary/aotouao8efquumuiekw6
It is such a perfect example of the internet that the woman in this pose is treated like a fool and the man with the exact same pose is some kind of badass.
I’m not seeing that? She didn’t get memed as much for sure
During the Tokyo games in 2021, an image of the 2016 Rio games gold medal winner was posted on Twitter (erroneously being labelled as being from the Tokyo games), and she became a meme for women not knowing how to shoot because of her casual stance, and the subsequent meme for armchair experts trying to mansplain shooting to a gold medalist. At the time, it was a popular meme.
The woman is also a badass in her own way and people memed on how cool she moved as well.
Got it, thanks.
I think my problem is that so many of the mews don’t even reference him being in every man, or not using specialized equipment, they just have a picture of him with no context or caption
I find it to be an extremely stupid meme. He lost to someone using high tech shit. I don’t get why people are trying to make him into something more than he was.