Friday, July 18, 2008

Stereotyping

Walking inside the mall, it is sometimes very easy to spot what sport people are into based only on how they look. Basketball players are the easiest and virtually a give-away: they're almost always tall. A swimmer usually is dark or tanned and has a V-shaped body; a dragon boat rower has a mismatched pair of arms and shoulders- one side is bigger than the other; while runners are basically skin-and-bones types-- you could almost mistake them for famine victims-- there's hardly an ounce of flab in their bodies. If they're not the "Kenyan" types, then look "down there"... no not that one!... lower, the legs-- usually its bigger and muscled.

I swim, but I do not have the curves of a swimmer; I used to row and one side of my body was bigger than the other; and I run, which means my legs now resemble a construction worker's.

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