Olympic Games

This far I have not followed the Olympic games very much at all. I did not even see the opening (as I then was lying on the beach on Mallorca at that time). However today they showed a short sequence from the opening on the news. It showed a little girl in a red dress and pigtails singing a song with a high and clear voice. But the news was that it was not the girl shown that was singing, she was just miming to another voice. The singer was another seven years old girl, who was considered too ugly to be represented on the opening.

At first I was upset to hear that and the news was presented with indignation. That a little girl is told she is too ugly to be shown. But after a while I started to rethink. Maybe it is just another sign of the same preset mind, that of the importance of beauty. And it might also be a sign of Swedish urge for equality; no one is better or worse than anyone else, especially not children.

Of course in an ideal world it should not matter what anyone looks like if the person has a unique talent, but on the other hand is it not more important and matters more to have a talent than just a pretty face? And is it so strange that you want to show a pretty façade when the whole world is looking? Can we not just see this as a combination of two talents? The one who can sing does the singing and the one who is cute gets in the picture. As long as the singer also gets the credit, and in this case the organiser admitted it, at least afterwards it is not so bad or…? And after all I believe that how you look or how you sing at the age of seven does not really say much about what you will look like or sound like as an adult, so why not just let the poor kids be what they are..