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Unless Waap was talking about the offshoot of Socialist Workers' Shotputting Monthly?
Get fit, lose weight! ....hmmm, okay
Start running faster now!.......nuff said
New year, new you!........
Im not ripping Runners world to bits, because its focus on recreational and competitive runners interested in results, goings on and product reviews is very good, but UK athletics weekly shows more interest in Youth in the Sport, interviews top class role models in the British set up and publishes very good reports on debates in athletics.
The two are very good magazines, RW's front cover gives the idea of the mag being aimed at 'normal' brit runners whilst UK athletics may illustrate someone that has just competed in a world event or championships and done very well. (i.e. Gabresellassie, Lewis-Francis, Michael East, Khannouchi, Mutola etc.)
waap was joking.
You'v just got it in for me havent you!
Left-wing shotputters need their own magazine as shotputting represents the emancipation of the worker from the workhouse in this post-Industrial Revolution unionised era.
Or something.
we could have a right wing runners world then it would be RWRW..quite symmetrical.
(Sorry, it WAS a joke).
On Carolds's point, and I'm being serious here, the Italian philosopher Gramsci, wrote about how a ruling class (in the most sophisticated sense) maintains power by adopting a position of hegemony.
This involves establishing an order of how the world 'is' and then promoting it as common sense. Men maintain a position of power by it being seen as normal for women to undertake menial tasks, stay at home and have kids, wash the workers shirts etc. For example, think of a secretary - you are visualising a woman, aren't you?
Gramsci would argue that images of people are an important part of maintaining order. Go into WHS this lunchtime and look at ther magazines. With a handful of exceptions you will see white people looking back at you. Succesful, attractive white people. (The black people will probably be on the cover of niche magazines for black people).
This doesn't mean that RW is buttressing an oppressive capitalist state. But may explain why the picture editors of magazines think it is common sense to put white people on the covers to help sell the magazines.
Its just the way it is. And the way people with power like it to be. So that's how it stays.
And another Hooray for Waap.
was trying to make stifler not think i am picking on him (which i wasn't, but might now as i am a little bored). And don't cheer waap, he's just name dropping, you'll only encourage him.
I shall cheer Waap all I like as he tends to voice the things I think but in a much better way that I can! So phoeeee.
Anyway - TOUGH GUY!
(That was to Moosey)
(blush)
Gramsci would point to your last posts and say "See? SEE?".
That was to moosey.
I'm more interested in the running content of the magazine to worry about small details like this.
Waap - why would he?