[sumo] More On Asashoryu Incident

[Jezz]

On 31 January 2010 03:36, Jeanne Hedge <jhedge at rcn.com> wrote:
> Jezz <jejima at gmail.com> wrote:


>>I think the YDC is separate to the kyokai (I could be wrong).  But
>
> They have be part of the overall organization, else why would they have input (however
> much listened to) on matters regarding the Yokozuna?
>

I think (and this is where I am hoping that someone who has better
knowledge than me can correct me) that the reason why the YDC was set
up was to have some independence from the kyokai when discussing
yokozunas - as the kyokai is basically the former top rikishi
including yokozunas, so might not always be objective - but of course,
they do fall under the overall umbrella of 'the sumo world'..

>>anyways, what an individual involved in one particular sport says does
>>not directly lead to being the 'de facto' [psition for the rest of his
>>/ her sport.
>
> True. But he was speaking in his role as a member of the YDC, not in his role as a citizen > of Japan. Whether or not his opinion is that of the overall organization doesn't matter - he
> was speaking as a member of that organization, and it doesn't make a good impression (at > least to me)

Agreed, it does not make a good impression, but it does not have to
mean that this is the general opinion for sumo.

In 2004, Sepp Bletter (who is the head of FIFA - so the equivalent of
the 'rijicho' in sumo for football/soccer - so the 'very top' if you
like) said something sexist.

Here is a report of the incident.....
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jan/16/football.gender>

This is the first paragraph from the above...
'Football's most senior administrator attracted the wrath of the
women's game last night by suggesting female players wear tighter
shorts to promote "a more female aesthetic".
Sepp Blatter, the president of the world governing body Fifa, said
women should have skimpier kit to increase the popularity of the game.
"Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in
volleyball," he said.'

(There are a couple more paragraphs on a similar vein.)

However, I don't think that one would assume that just because he has
said something like that, that the whole of his organisation (I.e.
football/soccer) has 'sexist tendencies'?

Jejima