Ah, what a couple of weeks of sporting glory it's been. The Rio Olympics, where female athletes' achievements are attributed to their husbands or, you know, ignored altogether.
Ultraviolet, a US-based women's advocacy group that campaigns against sexism in politics and media, have put together a video collating a few of the more blatant examples of the sexist media coverage that's infected this year's Games - and boy, there hasn't been a shortage of them.
![Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu with one of the Rio Olympics' most notorious sexist media moments.](/web/20161024041038im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/v/8/1/m/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gqv7tb.png/1471476264122.jpg)
This headline is a metaphor for basically the entire world. pic.twitter.com/5WpQa04N0o
— Nancy Leong (@nancyleong) August 14, 2016
The clip, mercifully compressed into just over a minute of misogynist cringe, starts with a Fox News host leading a segment on female Olympians using makeup, with a couple of men joining in to contribute some really useful thoughts to the discussion.
"Would you put money behind a gal that won the gold medal that looks like a washed up rag?", asks a ruddy-faced Adonis of morning TV, really zeroing on an important issue.
From there, it's glimpses of the infamous Chicago Tribune headline, which referred to US swimming bronze medallist Corey Cogdell Unrein as "wife of a Bears' linesman"; the NBC commentator who gave all credit for Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu's medal-winning pool reign to her husband; and Andy Murray being forced to remind John Inverdale that Serena and Venus Williams still count as gold medallists, even if they are just lady-people.
Of course, the problem with releasing such a video with days of Olympics coverage still remaining is the obvious exclusions.
Overnight, British cyclist Laura Trott - who picked up a gold medal alongside her partner Jason Kenny, also a cyclist - was welcomed into the sexism fold, when BBC commentator Chris Boardman speculated on Kenny's podium thoughts, as he was standing next to Trott: "She's doing all the emotion for both of them really - he's looking at her wondering what's for tea!".
The commentator just said of a male gold medalist looking at their ALSO GOLD MEDALIST gf "he's looking at her thinking what's for tea"
— Kate Gilson (@kategilson) August 16, 2016
Wow!
"He's looking at her going 'what's for tea'." on Kenny celebrating with Trott. @BBC commentary still in the dark ages
— Dr Ben White (@ProtocoIDriven) August 16, 2016
Yep, it's been an obnoxiously memorable couple of weeks - and it's still not over yet. Go for gold, sexist media!