Odd how we view Oscar Pistorius. Weird how we try to defend him.
Strange how men seem to have pitied him. Before the murder charge that
is. When we all watched Blade Runner storm to the finish and gold last
summer.
Women saw a fit bloke and fancied the snug shorts off him.
Men saw an athlete, yes, but also a man with no legs. Not really
competition.
It must have galled so many to see him with his
gorgeous girlfriend and Reeva was not the first. They couldn't
understand it. How could a cripple pull a bird like that? Oscar's
flammable side was well known. He always had a temper. Men have said
that when he got nasty they would feel like punching him but, "You can't
hit a man with no legs can you?"
We all thought Oscar had won a
victory for disability, competing alongside the able-bodied, but all the
while the guys were deeply conscious that he wasn't in the running at
all. Even the podgiest counch potato felt superior. Perhaps if someone
had smacked Pistorius sooner, put him in his place good and proper, he
might have learned to control his anger better. Too late now.
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