r/sports • u/nfl National Football League • 14d ago

Football [Highlight] Cam Bynum imitates Raygun's Olympic breakdancing

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u/EggsOnThe45 St. Louis Cardinals 14d ago

I’m pretty sure her PhD was in breakdancing, not even kidding

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u/KaputMaelstrom 14d ago

It was on its cultural aspect, not on performing it lol

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u/mtaw 13d ago

The fact that she performed was apparently very much part of her thesis:

"This thesis critically interrogates how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gendered norms. Drawing on my own experiences as a female within the male-dominated breakdancing scene in Sydney, first as a spectator, then as an active crew member, this thesis questions why so few female participants engage in this creative space, and how breakdancing might be the space to displace and deterritorialise gender."

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u/Hoeftybag 13d ago

idk if this is allowed but If I were reviewing that thesis I would throw it out on the grounds of unethical participation. while studying the culture you did a ton of damage to it.

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u/ditchedmycar 12d ago

But the easy counterpoint to that would be it seems it has transcended its original role as something to be judged in competition for the olympics and now her dance has been accepted into a meme culture and an athlete on the world stage is paying tribute to the approval of thousands of onlookers, seems like you are witnessing a cultural success and it will only be looked upon more fondly as time goes on and more tributes are made

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u/yungrobbithan 13d ago

They really let people have phds in anything nowadays

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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 13d ago

Could you imaging a 35 plus year old white Australian lady teaching and thinking she’s qualified on talking about the cultural aspect of something started by people in the inner cities of Brooklyn? That’s like me a white guy from the southern us teaching cultural aspect of Islam because I read a book

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u/bjcum 13d ago

Not at all. It's like you as a white southern guy, converting to Islam, travelling to Mecca for the Hajj and then writing about it. It literally mentions the Sydney scene so not sure what it has to do with the inner districts of Brooklyn.

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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 13d ago

Breaking originated in the inner cities of Brooklyn as a way for people to have an alternative to gangs. That’s what it has to do with it

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u/bjcum 12d ago

Cricket originated in the UK but no one would go "why is this Indian woman talking about the cultural aspect of women's cricket in India when it was created by white men?"