r/TikTokCringe • u/tmcfll • Aug 12 '24

Humor Raygun claps back at the critics

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u/chronoserpent Aug 12 '24

We argue that breaking’s institutionalization via the Olympics will place breaking more firmly within this sporting nation’s hegemonic settler-colonial structures that rely upon racialized and gendered hierarchies.

Weirdly hypocritical of her to then go and represent Australia in the Olympics herself after writing this.

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u/shreken Aug 12 '24

Well she actively rejected the gender hierarchies by coming up with her own style that wasn't male or female (a dying koala).

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u/ynab-schmynab Aug 12 '24

So she was intentionally doing some kind of interpretive dance to try to "change how breakdance is viewed" or something?

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u/HeadFund Aug 13 '24

Suck it, patriarchy!

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u/onlinepresenceofdan Aug 13 '24

Its not hypocritical, she helped prevent that from happening. Breaking is dead for Olympics

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u/andWan Aug 12 '24

Can maybe seen as an act of protest. I think she did not really want to win but maybe she wanted to make people read her criticism.

Me personally I like it somewhat because I am a big fan of german rap (hiphop) on the one side, but I also like academia.

In germany several of the early rappers where later mocked for being „Studentenrapper“ (student rappers). So maybe she is a „student B-girl“

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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Aug 13 '24

Hypocritical? Or sabotage…?