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South Korea’s record-breaking Olympic shooter -Kim Yeji.

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[–] [email protected] 304 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (32 children)

This meme is funny but they are pretty similar. The only "gear" Yejin is wearing is the shooting glasses, which is basically a prescription lens (no magnification is allowed - these lens make things look less blurry, but can't make them look bigger) on a frame that allows more adjustment than normal eyeglasses, with a piece of plastic instead of lens over the other eye. You can achieve something very similar by taping a piece of paper to the left lens of your own glasses.

The advantage shooting glasses provide is the ability to move the lens up/down/sideways. Depending on your specific shooting stance, if your head is tilted too much, normal eyeglasses may not provide the best field of view if you're only looking through one side of it. In those cases, you buy a pair of shooting glasses and move the lens. If you look at Yejin's shooting stance, her arm is almost parallel with her body, whereas Dikec's arm is slightly angled forwards (not much, maybe 10 degrees?). This means Dikec can see more out of his regular eyeglasses than Yejin can in their respective shooting stances, which is probably why Dikec didn't need shooting glasses.

Besides ear protection (which Dikec is actually wearing - if you watch videos of the match he has bright yellow earplugs in), no other gear is allowed in this event - shoes cannot go above the ankle, clothing cannot restrict movement. Most people wear some sort of flat-soled shoes, whatever clothing you wear literally doesn't matter except to keep you warm/cool. This is in contrast to air rifle, where stiff clothing is allowed - competitors basically wear what looks like clunky armor (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Air-rifle-shooting.jpg), it's hard to bend your knees in them and nearly impossible to squat. I used to train with those guys, I'd take the piss out of them by pretending to be nice and offering them some water, then putting it on the floor in front of them.

And before anyone mentions it, putting their hand in the pocket is the standard stance for air pistol shooting. Only one hand is allowed on the gun. And in a sport where your breathing and heart rate interferes with your accuracy, having one hand free means it might move around and cause micro movements to your body, so everyone puts their other hand in their jacket/pants pocket, or tucks the thumb in their waistband.

It does look badass though.

Source: I used to compete in ISSF 10m and 25m air pistol events like these (this is 10m)

FINAL EDIT: I just wanted to end by saying that Dikec (the Turkish guy) may look cool and casual, and I enjoy all the "retired hitman rolls out of bed casually" memes just as much as everyone, but don't let that diminish the decades of training and dedication he's put into the sport. Dude has been competing for more than 20 years and first set a world record in a different shooting event in 2006. Shooting is one sport where age isn't a big disadvantage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Thanks for posting this. He looks bad ass and she looks bad ass.

Fuck anyone comparing the two for whatever reason, especially if you actually watch and notice the majority of competitors are wearing the shooting glasses, which is why the guy is unique. Even his teammate (he won a team medal) is wearing special gear. And he's been doing this for decades!! He was at 2008 Olympics

Ugh. All I see is misogyny in this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The korean shooter Yeji Kim became a (positive) meme first for her cyberpunk aesthetics, which many people found cool. Shortly after the turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç also became a meme for his own, very different aesthetic.

Also there is a bunch of other memes in circulation that compare the turkish shooter with various other people, e.g. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/873/956/0f7.png

Just because you are comparing a woman and a man does not make it misogyny. This is basically just a crossover of two recent memes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not the one making the comparison. This post is... It names her in the description. I'm not talking about other posts. I'm talking about this one.

I'm saying the post could have been "this bad ass from Turkey came with no specialized gear and took home silver!" Or even "vs All the other teams decked out in gear!" Not singling out "South Korea sent this knitted out player" when she was wearing what the vast majority were.

She and her partner also won gold and silver. There was a more positive way to make them both sound awesome, not making him sound like he's better than her by comparison because he does it without gear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I talked about the other posts to provide context. These are not unknown people and she is not the only one who gets compared to the turkish shooter.

The poster likely chose the korean shooter as counterpart, because she already garnered attention beforehand for her aesthetic. She is already relatively famous, so I don't think it is surprising if somebody chose (and named) her over other, less known athletes. The poster also described her as "record-breaking" in the description, so I do not think it was the intention to make her look bad.

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