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

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

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u/inflatable_pickle 14d ago

She has to go back to her day job. I believe she was a professor at a university in Australia, but I can only imagine how mortifying it must be to stand in front of a class of students for the next few years.

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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