Truth is Subjective. Give Our Olympic Breakdancer an Order of Australia

As a philosopher, Craig Foster makes a very good soccer player.

The former Socceroo waded into philosophy yesterday after spranging to the defence of Australian breakdancer Rachel Gunn.

Gunn - or B-Girl Raygun as she likes to be called - failed to score even a single point in her three ‘battles’ in Paris.

Aussie Olympic boss Anna Meares accused critics of engaging in sexism and misogony.

I must admit, Gunn’s dance routine - in which she hopped like a kangaroo, and strutted around like a T-Rex, but mostly just flopped around on the ground - did seem to be pretty crap.

Or maybe I’m just a sexist, privileged, white male.

Nah. It was crap.

Clearly done from the heart, but crap just the same.

How it benefits women to insist that criticism of anything they do is inherently sexist, I do not know.

Don’t women want to be judged on their merits?

Well there was zero merit in Gunn’s tortured contortions. And she scored exactly zero from the judges to prove it.

Or maybe the Olympic judges were misogynists too.

But Craig Foster leapt to the Raygun’s defence, tweeting …