JFC, listening to Radiolab while cleaning. 1). They are pretty clear about how invasive the early 1900s "nude parade" was, but when they get to Caster Semenya, there's a passing mention of how sad one of the WW atheletes is at the scrutiny of Semenya. nothing on CS' feelings.
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Evidently, within a few years of women competing in the modern Olympics, they had to walk naked in front of a (male) panel of experts, "they had to parade nude in front of . . . " The script was using "medieval" to mean cruel or "barbaric."
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Feels like this usage is everywhere. I can't tell if it seems so because I am more sensitized to this due to
#medievaltwitter or because in 45 era, people are scrambling for ways to describe cruelty and they don't want to just say "white supremacist" or "misogynist" - Show replies
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uses of "Medieval": They actually use the phrase "no more medieval nude parades." WHAT?